History
Josefa Llanes Ecoda
September 20, 1898- January 6, 1945
It took one courageous woman, the suffagist Josefa Llanes Escoda to form and lead the Girl Scout of the Philippines (GSP) after coming from the United States of America to take up basic scouting lessons in 1939. Another woman leader, Pilar Hidalgo Lim, then national president of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs, joined hand in hand with Escoda and led the way in further developing the Movement