News and Stories
WOSM’s Secretary General, Scott Teare, and Member of the World Scout Committee, Mari Nakano, met with UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, at his office in New York on 21 October 2014. During the 20-minute meeting, Scott extended an invitation to Ban...
We have an exciting announcement for you - did you know that Youth Wall (scout.org and Facebook) is in the hands of the six Youth Advisors who have been elected to the Forum of the World Scout Youth in Slovenia in August? This means that we will be...
Hello to our Scout family! We are your six Youth Advisors (from left to right – Montaser, Luis, Maire, Daiana, Jeremy, and Maeed). We wish you a very happy JOTA-JOTA weekend from the Catskill Mountains, USA. All six of us are spending the weekend...
Cub Scouts from Langata Junior Troop at the World Scout Bureau Africa participating in the #JotaJoti
These days the National Scout Movement of Armenia “HASK” was glad to host Martin Kristensen, a good friend of the organization and a Danish international scout-trainer. This time he arrived in Armenia together with two other trainers, Christian Gow...
The South African Radio League, the national body for amateur radio in South Africa, ran an essay competition at the end of 2013. The winners of the competition are two brothers, both involved in Scouting and they are licensed radio amateurs. The...
The third week of July next year will turn the French city of Strasbourg into a sea of red, when some 15000 Pionniers & Caravelles (young people aged 14 to 17 years) will come together for the National Jamboree “You’re Up!”. Are you up for it, too?...
This year, more than 2650 participants - Scouts, Guides and general public - from all over the Czech Republic gathered on the banks of the Vltava River in the morning of 28 September and celebrated Wenceslas Day in a very spectacular way, under the...
From 3rd till 5th of October 2014, Mpumalanga Cub Scouts from Scouts South Africa had their summer camp at the Mataffin SCOUTS Hall. More than 40 kids attended this camp and had a great weekend full of action and fun. On the first day the Cubs...
Rover and Venture Commissioners and other members of National Rover and Venture Programme Teams from 15 different National Scout Organisations (NSOs) in Europe travelled to Iceland in September for this year’s RoverNet & VentureNet weekend. They came...
The European Scout Region and the team of EuroScoutInfo join Scouts from around Europe and the world in wishing the members and leadership of the Deutsche Pfadfinderschaft Sankt Georg (DPSG) a very happy birthday! DPSG - the German Catholic Scout...
Inside The humblest uniform in Congo My first Scout uniform Scouts renovate homes in impoverished community Scouts Goma commit to the activities of the UReport project Let us unite to build a new world of lasting peace Cycling for peace and health...
Every two years, Sea Scout Leaders from European National Scout Organisations (NSOs) come together for 5 days to discuss new programme and training trends, to network and to share experiences gained in the theory and practice of Sea Scouting...
Byamukama Rogers of Buganda Road Primary School had always had the compelling desire to acquire a Scout uniform to be smart like his fellow Scouts and participate in activities like hoisting the flag and even public duties which would ordinarily...
Did you know this? The 1,7 million members of the 41 National Scout Organisations in the European Region of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) use some 35 different languages on a daily basis. To mark today's European Day of...