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If you missed our first JOTA JOTI Campfire here is the replay! For more info go to www.scout.org/jotajoticampfires Karlien is a volunteer leader in Belgium who helps to promote Scouting for young people with disabilities and reaches out to those...
If you missed our first JOTA JOTI Campfire here is the replay! For more info go to www.scout.org/jotajoticampfires Jesus presented the process implemented by the Region to generate institutional guidelines on Diversity & Inclusion, both with its...
If you missed our first JOTA JOTI Campfire here is the replay! For more info go to www.scout.org/jotajoticampfires Hana Pasic will be talked about the impact of Scouting, witnessed through the evaluation of the Messengers of Peace initiative. She...
Was yours one of them? Our radios crackled to life yesterday evening and we connected almost instantly with our first contact in the USA. Since then the World Scout Bureau has talked to 7 more countries on our radios, and 6 more via Scoutlink (whilst...
If you missed our first JOTA JOTI Campfire here is the replay! Don't forget to share and join us for the next one "YOUNG PEOPLE IN POVERTY AND DISABILITY"Sat Oct 15 2016 15:00 GMT For more info go to www.scout.org/jotajoticampfires Shaun will talked...
Today we reached a landmark. Over 700 million hours of service to community have now been recorded through almost 21,500 projects on scout.org! This is an outstanding achievement in the 3 years since we started inviting Scouts to share their...
If you know what the code in the title line means, then you will be already know what we are talking about! This weekend will see the biggest meeting of Scouts and Guides around the world: it is the Jota-Joti weekend! It is during the 72hours between...
On 7th October, 2016 the VI Eurasia Scout Conference elected three new members of the Eurasia Scout Committee for the term 2016-2022, namely: Arthur Khachatryan (Armenia), Inna Harutyunyan (Belarus) and Sergiu Chirica (Moldova). Irina Pruidze...
Experts from 18 National Scout Organizations (NSOs) recently participated in a workshop on disaster mitigation, preparedness and response in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Held from 9 to 11 October 2016, the workshop was organised by the World Organization of...
"We need to make sure that our initiatives are reaching all girls: girls in extreme poverty; girls in isolated rural areas; girls living with disabilities; girls in indigenous communities; girls who are refugees or displaced within their own...
SAVE YOUR SPOT! JOTA-JOTI 2016 campfires are now confirmed and registrations are OPEN! There are four campfires you can join, and each of them will be full of amazing conversations! SAVE YOUR SPOT now to get on board. The conversations will be about...
[GONE HOME] Sad and heartbreaking news reached us this weekend: Our friend Χάρης, whose courageous fight against a terrible illness many of us have been following ever since his family and his Cub and Scout friends from the Scouts of Corfu (Πρόσκοποι...
On 4 October 2016, Haiti was struck by Hurricane Matthew, which the United Nations confirmed is the country’s worst disaster since its 2010 earthquake. So far, hundreds of lives have been lost and the numbers continue to rise. In the southern part of...
In the past years, several countries in the Asia-Pacific Region were hit by natural disasters such as tsunami, earthquake, forest fire, typhoon and others almost every year. And in any disaster, Scouts are always there to help. Living out the Scout...
In the period 30 september-3 October, in Armenia, took place the traditional youth engagement project for Eurasia- Excelscout. It was a very special edition since it was the 10th anniversary, but also because this year the participants to Excelscout...