News and Stories
The adventure of West Java Scout Jamboree 2017 will soon roll as it opens on 31 July – 8 August 2017. An estimated of more than 12,000 local Scouts and leaders from 34 provinces are coming and around 100 overseas are expected to join.
The Bharat Scouts and Guides is holding State Messengers of Peace (MoP) Coordinators Gathering on 5-9 June 2017 in Himachal Pradesh, India. This gathering of leaders has been instrumental in promoting MoP; serving as platform in receiving feedback on...
700 Scouts from different parts of Lalitpur served in the final day of the Rato Machindranath festival where thousands of pilgrims participated. Hindu and the Buddhist communities in Nepal celebrate the festival by towing a 32-feet high chariot...
You would have by now received the sad news of the Natural Disaster situation faced by Sri Lanka in the last one week. As at present more than 600,000 people are internally displaced and one-fourth of that number have lost all their belongings and...
Embu, Kenya: Forty-three leaders from 10 National Scout Organizations (NSOs) are attending the 1st ever Africa Regional Course for Leaders Trainers at the Embu Scouts Centre in Kenya. The week-long course has been organized by the World Scout Bureau...
Continuing the work of strengthening the local Messenger of Peace (MoP) network and training them how to effectively implement the MoP across the country, Pakistan Boy Scout Association (PBSA) is holding the MoP Team Pakistan Gathering Phase II in...
The Board of the Africa Scout Foundation invites individual Scouts, Scouts Leaders, Former Scouts, and National Scout Organizations, Friends of Scouting in government or in business across the continent of Africa to become members of the Foundation...
Dear friends, good day. We are currently in Minsk where the work of our volunteers’ strategic groups has started. Let’s see how they work! Please open sub-titles in video.
This is to introduce to you Ms. Camille-Maylis Meunier and Ms. Fanny Huguon who have joined the World Scout Bureau Africa Support Centre as volunteers effective 8th May 2017 within the framework of the partnership between the Africa Support Centre...
This weekend, World Scout Education Congress is currently happening at Kandersteg International Scout Centre, one of the scouting hearts in Europe. The purpose is to assist NSOs in building capacity in the areas of Youth Programme and Adults in...
With another Learning Centre set up in Kekirawa, Sri Lanka Scouts Association continues to partner with Bookbridge in taking the English language and IT to the rural folks of Sri Lanka. It was in September 2016 that Bookbridge entered Sri Lanka and...
It was a great day for these seven teenagers from Lesvos: ten days ago the group of Ventures from Lesvos (Scouts aged 15 to 18) received World Scouting’s “Messengers of Peace Hero Award” on behalf of Σώμα Ελλήνων Προσκόπων (the Scouts of Greece) for...
When she attended a counter-demonstration at a far-right rally, Lucie Myslíková thought there would be a little bit of publicity from the local press. Now a photograph of her squaring up to a neo-Nazi has been seen by people all over the world. Lucie...
These days, 28-29 April, in Astana, Kazakhstan takes place the 1st Eurasia Educational Forum with the theme “Non-formal education of young people”. The Forum gathered more than 150 representatives from 16 countries: beside representatives of the NSOs...
Gerakan Pramuka, with warm and generous hospitality, hosted the largest APR Scout Leaders Summit on 22-25 April 2017 in Bali, Indonesia, with the participation of around 150 delegates, guests, and accompanying persons. Essentially, the APR Scout...