Supporting better Scouting for more young Africans
The international Scout Movement has a long and illustrious history and is a world leader in educating the youth. Scouting inspires patriotism, sound moral values, courage, character building, self-reliance and community awareness. It also motivates the youth to achieve their full potential.

Objective
To equip leaders with the necessary skills to mobilise necessary resources to support the growth and development of Scouting in Africa. Scouting in Africa suffers greatly from inadequate resources both material and human. Whilst this is partly as a result of the general situation in Africa, it is also partly due to inability of national Scout organizations to identify, interest and attract necessary resources to finance the expansion of the Movement.

FACING THE CHALLENGES IN AFRICA: A PRACTICAL LONG TERM VIEW
Scouts in Africa, together with their leaders at national and world levels want to take action. Their vision is based on a personal understanding of the needs in Africa, and a belief in the power of Scouting to make a difference today, and tomorrow.

Objective
To strengthen the Africa Regional Office with human and material capacity to oversee the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the 10-year development plan.

Millions of people in Africa have been killed, many others wounded or maimed for life. Property has been destroyed, children have been orphaned, abducted and raped. Many have watched in horror as their parents, relatives, sisters and brothers, friends and neighbours are butchered in cold blood. The trauma is unfathomable. The number of African countries at war continues to rise over the years. There is need for a lasting solution; an end to this act of madness.

Peter is 12 years old. His single mother died of AIDS two years ago leaving him and his two siblings in the care of her brother, Kamau. But Kamau had a family of his own and his meagre salary could not afford to feed three extra mouths much less take them to school. He therefore became abusive to Peter and his sisters denying them food and locking them out of the house at the slightest provocation. Peter could not bear it anymore and he decided to run away to the city, where, he heard, there was plenty of money.

HIV/AIDS is the worst calamity Africa has ever gone through; the disease is threatening to wipe out a whole generation in the continent. Sub Saharan Africa is the home of 70% of the adults and 80% of the children living with AIDS in the world. This is in the backdrop of public health infrastructures that are already strained by the demands of malaria, Tuberculosis and other diseases. Care for HIV/AIDS sufferers and the affected is therefore inadequate. The Youth of Africa are the most affected by the scourge; one in every ten young people between the age of 15 and 24 years is HIV positive. Yet this is the most active and productive age bracket, the present and the future generation!