by Nausheen Husain / theismaili.org / 11 June 2010
A Girl Scout’s life is typically associated with the selling of cookies, going to camps and earning badges — a phase of girlhood that might last 10 to 12 years. Shariffa Keshavjee, however, has been a Girl Scout for 57 years.
She began at the age of eight as a Girl Guide at the Aga Khan Primary School in Mombasa, Kenya. 
In 1993, she served as the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts representative at the United Nations. Today, she is the National Vice-Chairman at the Kenya Girl Guides Association (KGGA) and she helped begin the Hawkers Market Girl Centre in Kenya.
Who says that Girl Scouts is all about selling cookies?
This year, the Girl Guide movement turns 98. The organisation’s impact on the physical, mental and spiritual development of girls and young women has been phenomenal. It has empowered women to cultivate qualities such as leadership, moral values, social conscience and belief in their own potential to make meaningful contributions in life.
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