NAIROBI - Hot on the heels of the World Scout Conference, the Africa Scout Regional Office conducted a Senior Management Conference (SMC) between 24 and 30 September 2008 at the regional secretariat in Nairobi, Kenya.

Participants included WOSM's Acting Secretary General Luc Panissod; Regional Committee Members, Marcel Blaguet, Naivasha Miriti, Chris Mbanga and regional executives, Winston Adams, Lamine Diawara, Jim Kastelic (and his Assistant Jonathan Omondi), Euloge Ishimwe, Jacques Sandrizi, Guy Banafai, Elzette Balgobin. The rapporteurs were Ann Leparan and Pauline Kibugi.

The first National Workshop on Building Financial Capabilities hosted by the Bharat Scouts and Guides of India has gathered 28 participants from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka at the national headquarters in New Delhi, India from 19th to 22nd September 2008.

It is a pleasure to announce the WOSM membership of Kazakhstan's National Scout Organization, 'the Organization of the Scout Movement of Kazakhstan (OSMK)', as from 16 January 2008.

A warm welcome into the World Scouting family is extended to all the youth and adult members of OSMK, and it is with great pride that we look forward to their participation at the World Scout Youth Forum and World Scout Conference in Korea in July.

If you were running a restaurant, what would you do with a dominant cook, a waitress having burn-out and a menu that is already ten years in place? Doing some changes, taking care of your employees, listening to the chef?

El Secretario General de la OMMS, Sr. Luc Panissod, y los Vicepresidentes del Comité Scout Interamericano Sr. Omar Lugo y Sr. Nigel Taylor, visitaron la sede en Santiago de la Oficina Scout Mundial – Región Interamericana, los días 3 y 4 de octubre.