News and Stories
Sometime back we shared a story on how Scouting Making a Difference in a Ugandan Prison. Below is a conversation with one young person, Sande Ronald, who attained his freedom from Murchison Bay Prison in Luzira as he explains the important role...
About the "Workshop Youth for Change" and regarding to the Priority Strategic "Youth Participation": These are young people who attended to the 1st. and 2nd. Edition of the "Intermerican Leadership Training" (ILT). This program, an initiative from...
The Scouts of the World Award was successfully relaunched in 2014 during the 40th World Scout Conference in Slovenia, and since then much have been achieved. Read the attached Circular to obtain the latest updates on the programme.
Scouts of China (Taiwan) has organized countrywide tree planting event in March, involving 2200 Scouts from 12 Scout councils in Taiwan that planted 20,000 trees. A rover crew also organized their own tree planting event in an offshore island. Around...
Caitlin Wood from Australia has recently been selected for a 6 months internship with the World Scout Bureau - Kuala Lumpur Office. Caitlin has been a member of Scouts Australia since she was 12 years old. As a Rover she has attended the Australian...
Dear Brother and Sister Scouts; It’s time for me to take a bow! My experience as a National Youth Representative, serving together with my counterpart Grace Michuki, has been one filled with its own fair share of good and sometimes very challenging...
Ten days after the devastating passage of cyclone Pam, Vanuatu, a small island republic in the South Pacific, is slowly beginning to recover from the worst cyclone hitting this area in hundred years. Gaël Audras, a Scout Leader engaged in civilian...
BACKGROUND Luzira is a suburb of Kampala, the capital of Uganda. Luzira lies in Nakawa Division, one of the five administrative divisions of Kampala. It is located approximately 12 kilometres, by road, southeast of the central business district of...
As active citizens and Messengers of Peace, Scouts in Africa continue to drive positive social impact and development in their continent. In their quest to create a better world, they have made a difference through their services and contributions...
“The future of Africa, and indeed the entire world, to a great extent, depends on the efforts it deploys to promote and develop its human resources, particularly its youth. Young people will be called upon to assume various responsibilities in their...
The environmental problems facing mankind has today moved to centre stage. The awareness of the importance of keeping the environment clean and healthy, of not threatening the survival of habitats and species in order to satisfy the needs and "wants"...
Since the start of the big wave of the Ebola epidemic in March 2014, the World Health Organisation (WHO) figures showed that there were 22,000 officially recorded cases, with around 8,800 deaths in West Africa. When the Ebola pandemic first broke out...
The Alan Sol Foundation has donated 250 000 Rand to SCOUTS South Africa for their continued efforts in contributing to the enhancement and preservation of the environment with its objective being either that of fauna, flora and human beings. “We are...
During the Africa Scout Day celebrations on 13th March Scouts in Cote d’Ivoire undertook tree planting with the Cub Scouts. This also marked the official launch of the project "A Tree for Peace" as part of marking the Centenary of Cub Scouting in...
We were glad to have Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, delivered a valuable seminar on nature conservation to members of the Scout Association of Hong Kong during her visit to Hong Kong in November 2014. Dr. Goodall shared with us her road to the success in the...