KAREN CHHOUR (ACT): When I was looking at this I was quite excited—not that I was involved with girl guides, but for seven years I volunteered with a similar organisation that deals with youth cadets. These programmes are so important for our communities. They bring children together from lots of different demographics, and they learn to play together and interact with each other in a way that sometimes schools don't provide, because of the different demographics. Schools tend to have the same people, whereas this combines children from lots of different areas and allows them to become friends. They encourage our children to become good citizens, to have confidence, and to become our new leaders—our next leaders that may be standing here one day. It gives them a sense of belonging, and it's a place where they know that anyone is welcome, and that they are safe and that they have a place that they can go where they can just be themselves. 