GET ready to light the campfire, because a week-long International Girl Guides Australian Jamboree will take place on Wadawurrung Country.<\/p>\n
Ballarat will host the large-scale Kani-Karrung<\/em> conference of campers aged 10 to 17 and a team of adult volunteers in January of 2023.<\/p>\n Kani-Karrung<\/em> is a Wadawurrung word that reflects the event\u2019s plans – girls and women uniting to camp and yarn, as Girl Guides from across the world convene at Victoria Park for fun, friendship and adventure.<\/p>\n Girl Guides Victoria state commissioner Janelle Howell said her team is \u201cjumping up and down with great excitement\u201d after the announcement that they\u2019ll organise the Australian Jamboree.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can\u2019t wait and have ideas buzzing around everywhere of what we can jam pack into a week. Girl Guide Jamboree camping experiences are out of this world, and are what lifetime Girl Guide memories are made of,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cVictoria Park is on the lands of the Wadawurrung people, and Girl Guides Victoria acknowledges and pays our respects to the Wadawurrung elders both past and present, who nurtured and cared for Wadawurrung Country for tens of thousands of years.\u201d<\/p>\n