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Did you know that more than 1.3 million Scouts and Guides from 157 countries signed up for last year’s JOTA-JOTI? For three days, they communicated with each other via amateur radio or internet, bridging cultural borders and creating new bonds. Can...

A group of Rovers from Venezuela successfully completed their SW Award Voluntary Service. The Project Turtles 2015, was held in La Playa Parguito located on the island of Margarita Nueva Esparta. The aim of the project was to create a sense of...

Scouts and Guides contributing to refugee support activities in their local communities in Europe: a story from the island of Kos, Greece "Do you note any difference in this picture? You should not really, because it is just another meeting of Scouts...

On 5 October, President Giorgi Margvelashvili of Georgia met with the official delegation from WOSM, led by its Secretary General, Scott A. Teare. The delegation included Eurasia Scout Committee Chairperson, Irina Pruidze; Regional Director of the...

Earlier this month we shared with you two articles featuring stories of Scouts and Guides contributing to refugee support activities in their local community on the Greek island of Lesbos. Once we had published the second stroy this weekend on our...

All 40 million Scouts worldwide were today honoured with a “Youth Leadership Award for the Environment” for their dedication to environmental protection at the Green Cross International Conference for a Green and Inclusive Economy. Six Scouts...

6 October 2015, Geneva, Switzerland: All 40 million Scouts worldwide were today honoured with a “Youth Leadership Award for the Environment” for their dedication to environmental protection at the Green Cross International Conference for a Green and...

Scouts and Guides contributing to refugee support activities in their local communities in Europe (16): a story from the island of Kos, Greece “Yesterday, two groups of Scouts from Ελληνικός Προσκοπισμός left for the islands of ‪Lesbos and Kos where...

Scouts and Guides contributing to refugee support activities in their local communities in Europe (17): a story from the island of Lesbos, Greece “This weekend, some 40 Scouts from Ελληνικός Προσκοπισμός were on their second mission to the island of...

Scouts and Guides contributing to refugee support activities in their local communities in Europe (14): a story from Styria, Austria „Like a number of other regional Scout and Guide Associations in Austria and confronted with the realities of the...

Scouts and Guides contributing to refugee support activities in their local communities in Europe (15): a story from Eidomeni, Greece As part of the many refugee support activities in local communities across Greece, members of Πρόσκοποι του Κιλκίς...

João Morais completed a ‪#‎Development‬ themed ‪#‎SWAward‬ Voluntary Service at the Hospital São João in Porto, ‪#‎Portugal‬. During his service he helped children with Math homework and accompanied some of the patients to the hospital chapel for...

The Ukrainian Scouts celebrated the International Day of Peace with the achievement of 1 million service hours on scout.org. Last year was a very difficult year for Ukraine and for Ukrainian Scouting. However, Scouts of the National Organization of...

Scouts and Guides contributing to refugee support activities in their local communities in Europe (13): a story from Tirol, Austria "Due to the growing number of stories and pictures in the media, we noticed that there is a significant number of...

The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, received the World Scout Committee Chairperson, João Armando Gonçalves, and WOSM Secretary General Scott A. Teare, at the Presidential Palace on 29 September 2015. During their meeting, WOSM...