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Some 30 Scout leaders representing eight National Scout Organizations in the Arab Scout Region, namely Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia and Sudan attended the 5th Certified Training for Professionals (CTP) which was...
Governor General Michael Ogio, Chief Scout of Papua New Guinea, welcomed the participants of the Council of South Pacific Scout Associations (CSPSA) Forum and workshop on 25-28 May 2015 in Port Moresby. He said that Scouting greatly contributes to...
Dear brothers and sisters, Scout greetings to you! The Africa Regional Conference is around the corner (28 August – 1st September 2015, Uganda) and this means we have an opening for new members to be elected to the Africa Scout Committee. It is an...
The aim of our Scouts of the World Award project was to prevent flooding in the local school and improve the classrooms to create a better learning environment for the children.
His Excellency Maithripala Sirisena, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, was inducted as the Chief Scout of Sri Lanka Scout Association in a special ceremony on 20 May 2015 at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo. Chief...
Kenya Scouts Association (KSA), the national Scouting organisation of Kenya, prides itself in the community involvement of its members. One of the key thematic areas is environmental conservation, where Scouts in the country commit to take care of...
Incredible! That’s the word that best describes my recent visit to Kenya, Africa. I was at the Rowallan National Scout Camp in Nairobi, which hosts the World Scout Bureau (WSB) - Africa Regional Office, the headquarters of the Kenya Scouts...
Ticket to Life is a flagship project by the Asia-Pacific Region of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). Started in 2006, it is now in its ninth year of operation. The project involves street children, guided and mentored by young but...
The xenophobic attacks in and around Durban shook our nation and the world, undermining the idea of Ubuntu and our aspiration for an inclusive society. The Scouts in the Durban area took initiative and acted as true Messengers of Peace when they...
As a change to the Scouts of the World Award format, you will now need to report back to WOSM on scout.org about your SW project to become part of the SW Network. Please notify any person who is finishing up or has just finished their project to use...
“In Scouting, we are One, one Family, one World!” A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the western part of Nepal on Tuesday, less than three weeks after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook and claimed 8,000 lives in the Himalayan nation. Several...
Read about Tatiana Cuadra Bermúdez great Scouts of the World Award Project here: It all started in January of 2010 after a process of research, awareness and a rain of knowledge started flowing ideas, to see the needs that were in my community, then...
In 2011the Australian Rovers were in Timor-Leste from the 4th of July to the 15th of July. The Timor-Leste (East Timor) Partnership Project 2011 was run by Rover Scouts from all around Australia. Much of this project was done with aid and assistance...
As an initiative under the Messengers of Peace project, the Boy Scouts of the Philippines continues to equip Scouts in different parts of the country, training them what to do in times of emergency and disaster. Two recent trainings were conducted...
Last month, the 2nd Youth Work Convention, five years after the first, brought together some 500 participants active in the youth work field. The aim of the Convention - organised in the framework of the Belgian presidency of the Committee of...