News and Stories
A Delegation of six Scouts will represent WOSM at the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to the UNFCCC, from 7-18 November 2016, Marrakech, Morocco. So Scouting will have a strong voice during the United Nations Conference on...
[THE ACADEMY 2016] Today, Scouts and Guides from across Europe are traveling to Larnaka in Cyprus, where they will be attending The Academy 2016, the main training, sharing and networking event of the European Regions of the World Organization of the...
The 1st of November was proclaimed and instituted as The Africa Youth Day on the occasion of the African Youth Charter adoption in the Executive Council Decision of the Banjul Summit 2006. Africa Youth Day is a day set aside every year to promote the...
This picture was taken a year ago on the island of Lesvos in Greece. Together with the following text it was published by journalist and local Scout Leader Stratis Balaskas on the website of the Greek news agency he works for. A year later, the...
Scouting has begun development of a fantastic new tool to help Scouts everywhere to fund projects! It is an online social funding platform that will make it easy to engage an existing donor base or reach out to new donors around the world. This new...
The World Scout Bureau welcomes Dong-Wook Lee, the new Global Director of Communications and External Relations. Dong-Wook holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, as well as a...
We are excited to welcome three new interns to our Digital Engagement team! Luis Aguayo, Camila Delgado, and Caitlin Weich have joined the team on a six month internship to help work on some big projects that are coming up for this department...
The Haitian National Civil Protection Agency (DPC), one of the many stakeholders collaborating with the Scouts of Haiti, has reported that 1.4 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. More than 120,000 families have lost their...
This weekend JOTA-JOTI broke a number of Scouting records, becoming the biggest Scouting event by participant numbers that the world has ever seen. JOTA-JOTI had over 11,000 groups registered, some of these with over 500 participants! The final...
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...
"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...