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Earlier this week, HRH The Duchess of Cambridge and Steve Judge, World Para-Triathlon Champion, joined the Beaver Scout Colony of 23rd Poplar Scout Group in East London (UK) for their regular weekly meeting. The visit took part in the framework of...
"Our little acts of kindness and services to others put together, creates a better and a peaceful world.” Vice-Chairperson of the World Scout Committee, Jemima Nartey, keeps 600 million service hours Thank You campaign rolling.
“Hi, I’m Joao Gonçalves, Chairperson of the World Scout Committee, and I helped to achieve the 600 million service hours.” Joao Gonçalves kicks off Mission 2 of the 600 million service hours Thank You campaign. Join him in keeping the #scout600Mhours...
“I’ve travelled the world to see some of these projects, five million projects! They’re absolutely incredible.” WOSM’s Secretary General, Scott Teare, spreads the goodwill and nominates Jemima Nartey, Vice-Chairperson of the World Scout Committee.
Tizian, this year's Peace Light Child from Upper Austria, is passing the flame of the Light of Peace from Bethlehem to Matthias, a Scout with Pfadfindergruppe Völs and representing the Scouts and Guides of Tyrol ( Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen...
Celebrate with us, pin the #scout600Mhours Twibbon to your Facebook and Twitter profile photos and join the 600 Million Community Service Hours Thank You Campaign! 1. Go to twibbon.com/support/scout600mhours. 2. Log in to your Facebook and Twitter...
NIGERIA - As part of building our Scouting Capacity within the Nigeria National Scout Organization, no fewer than 80 young Sea Scouts and their Leaders attended a Capacity building Workshop organized by the National Unit of the Nigeria Scout...
Overnight, a historic milestone was achieved – a counter, set at zero just over 24 months ago, passed the 600 million mark. That’s 600,000,000 hours of service provided to local communities around the world by over 10 million people whom King...
"600 million service hours, 5 million community projects. How soon do you think we’ll reach 1 billion community service hours?” - Scott Teare, Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement
On 3 December 2014, WOSM and UNESCO signed an agreement to promote the World Heritage Education programme that encourages young people to take part in projects related to heritage conservation and protection. Through this agreement, WOSM and UNESCO...
The Scout Movement has, since 1907, reached over 1 billion young people. And we do that by engaging the services of some 7 million volunteer leaders around the world." - WOSM Secretary General, Scott Teare, in conjunction with International Volunteer...
Thirty-four volunteer Scouts from the Arab Region recently spent three weeks from 8 to 27 November 2014 in Cairo, Egypt, at the 7th Super Diploma in Media, Communications and Marketing Programme. They took time away from family and work/studies to...
Inside WOSM and UNICEF Collaborate to Establish Global Communications Network through the U-report Scouts Embark on Ebola Awareness Campaign Walk for Peace Scouts and Red Cross Volunteers say no to Ebola Africa Scout Foundation Member Chief Addy...
The European Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), the European Regional Office of the World Scout Bureau (WSB) and the team of EuroScoutInfo join the family of Scouting in Norway ( Norges speiderforbund and Norges...
The Scout Photo Missions Contest was organized with the aim of promoting the new Scout Photo Community (http://photomissions.scout.org) on scout.org. The contest, which ended on 20 October 2014, received more than 2,000 photos from at least 80...