Soon after the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, thousands of school-children were organized in GEL. Through GEL a free lunch program for children was set up. GEL had its own uniforms.[3]
On May 24, 1937 a contingent of GEL paraded through Rome in connection with the twentieth anniversary of the Italian entry into the First World War. The GEL unit sang a specially composed song in honour of Il Duce, Benito Mussolini.[2]
Later renamed 'Indigenous Lictor Youth', Gioventù Indigena del Littorio in 1940, after the introduction of racial segregation laws in July 1938, GEL was never incorporated into the Italian mother organization.[4]
The organization was disbanded on orders from Rome after a brief existence.[5]
