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Nairobi, Kenya: A total of 20 selected participants from 19 National Scout Organizations across the Africa Scout Region have gathered in Nairobi, Kenya for the 2018 Regional Messengers of Peace Workshop. They include selected MoP coordinators...
The Asia-Pacific Region, the largest Scout region of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, has successfully rolled out the promotion of diversity and inclusion, convening key Scout Leaders in Manila for a 5-day workshop to establish a common...
A total of thirty-one Scout Leaders across Asia met in South Korea for the APR Seminar on Disaster Management to address and to identify the best preventive methods in disaster management, and to equip each National Scout Organization on how to best...
Rob McArthur and Poldy van Lyden swam the English Channel on Sunday, clearing a major hurdle in their Arch2Arctic expedition to raise £100,000 for UK Scouts. McArthur completed the swim in 12 hours and 40 minutes, while van Lyden took 18 ½ hours...
Walter Greenberg was just a boy when he arrived in America in August 1944. Part of a group of 982 refugees brought to the US to escape the war in Europe, Greenberg and his family found safety on the shores of Lake Ontario in a place called Oswego...
Dear Scouts around the world, We are pleased to share with you the first edition of the newsletter of the 17th Africa Scout Conference & 8th Africa Scout Youth Forum, christened "HUNGWE". The “Hungwe” (African sh eagle in Shona language) is a large...
The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) has launched a new platform to structure and streamline the support available to its 169 National Scout Organizations (NSOs), to improve their capacity to deliver a better Scouting experience to...
Most people spend their summer holidays lounging on the beach. Rob McArthur and Poldy van Lynden will spend theirs running, swimming, cycling and rowing nearly 5,000 kilometres from the heart of London to the edge of Arctic to raise money for UK...
Growing up was not always easy for Hedvig Mio Ahlström as the young Swede struggled with society’s views on sexuality and gender. But there was always one place that felt safe: the local Scout group. It was there that Ahlström, now 22 and a Rover...
On Singapore’s north western coast, overlooking the limpid waters of the Straits of Johor, Sarimbun has been the location for the city-state’s main Scout camp for 50 years. Sarimbun has hosted some of the Singapore Scout Association’s most important...
This month, three Scouts, battling wind and snow, reached the summit of Mount Everest to fly the flags of Scouting from the top of the world’s highest mountain. Having completed the ascent from Everest’s south side two years ago, becoming the first...
In commemoration of the 93rd Anniversary of Children Organisations and Movements, the Scout Association of Mongolia conducted their annual Great Challenge at Batsumber Scout Eco Camp in Tuv Province on 5-6 May 2018. The Great Challenge is a...
The UK Scout Association has launched its strategy for growth over the next five years, with the aim of equipping young people with the skills they need for life, and adding 50,000 more young people to its membership. Skills for Life – details the...
Scouting in the Czech Republic was banned three times under the country’s authoritarian regimes, and many of its leaders sacked from their jobs or even thrown in jail, but 30 years after the collapse of Communism, young Czechs are queuing up to...
Robert is a serial offender. Jailed in the sprawling Murchison Bay Prison in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, he faces two more years behind bars. But a year ago he joined the Scouts, and now he’s a Patrol Leader in his block. It’s changed his life....