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National coordinators of Ticket to Life project (TTL) gathered at Yellow Ribbon Hotel in Bangkok from 31st January until 3rd of February for a planning workshop. This year’s workshop was conducted to develop a long-term strategic plan for three years...
Over 7,000 Scouts flocked to the Ilian Hills of Iriga City in the Philippines for the 5th One Southern Luzon Regional Jamboree from 22-27 November 2016. Five challenging modules were prepared for Scouts to conquer: Module 1 on Emergency Preparedness...
Highlights For its first regular meeting in the current triennium the European Scout Committee met in the Netherlands, home of the chairperson of the Europe Committee WAGGGS, with which a joint meeting was held at the same occasion. This meeting...
On 23 November 2016, a select group of Scouts, Scout leaders and teams from around the world received the coveted Messengers of Peace Hero Award, an accolade bestowed by the government of Saudi Arabia on behalf of His Majesty King Salman bin...
Guy-Omer Bansadja Banafai left the World Scout Bureau on 11 November 2016 to take up a new job with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Guy joined the WSB Africa in May 2007 as an Administration and Finance Manager. He rose to the...
To celebrate 75 years since the official founding of Air Scouts in the United Kingdom (UK), a celebratory National Air Scout Camp was held in late October in Cornwall in the southwest of England. Although only founded in 1941, Scouts – in Britain and...
Benjamin Antoine is a member of Scouts d’Haïti, he lives in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti. He started his Scouting experience as a Cub in the 90s, and since then, he always brought his help when natural disasters struck Haiti: hurricanes in 2004...
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...
Child and Youth protection is central to all that is done in Scouting, so it is important that this area is continually evaluated and updated. To help NSOs raise awareness of this important area a paper was put together with useful advice for...
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...
The APR Management Sub-Committee Meeting met on 13th October at Yellow Ribbon Hotel, in Bangkok, Thailand. Sub-Committee Chairman Dr. Somboon Bunyasiri of Thailand chaired the meeting with Vice-Chairmen Neville Tomkins and Justine Kim from Australia...
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...
Experts from 18 National Scout Organizations (NSOs) recently participated in a workshop on disaster mitigation, preparedness and response in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Held from 9 to 11 October 2016, the workshop was organised by the World Organization of...
On 4 October 2016, Haiti was struck by Hurricane Matthew, which the United Nations confirmed is the country’s worst disaster since its 2010 earthquake. So far, hundreds of lives have been lost and the numbers continue to rise. In the southern part of...
In the past years, several countries in the Asia-Pacific Region were hit by natural disasters such as tsunami, earthquake, forest fire, typhoon and others almost every year. And in any disaster, Scouts are always there to help. Living out the Scout...