News and Stories
As teenagers, Leo, Nick and Steven were bullied in school for being different. Their lives took a turn for the better when Ollie Cantos, who is also blind, decided to take them under his wings when they were 10. Having experienced the positive impact...
[THE ACADEMY 2016] Today, Scouts and Guides from across Europe are traveling to Larnaka in Cyprus, where they will be attending The Academy 2016, the main training, sharing and networking event of the European Regions of the World Organization of the...
From the 21st to the 24th of October 2016, a team of volunteers and professional staff from different Regions met in Rabat, Morocco, for a meeting on World Scouting new e-Learning project. The vision of this project is to open up eLearning courses...
The Asia-Pacific Support Centre of the World Scout Bureau is looking for a staff who can support the organization’s flagship project and is willing to accept a project-based appointment with a fixed-term of six months, with a possibility of renewal...
Poldej Worachat has been an active member of the Scout Movement since joining the Scouts in 1967. The wood badge Scout Leader is the Assistant Commissioner of the National Scout Organization of Thailand (NSOT), advisor for the sub-committee of the...
Four months after the 22nd European Scout Conference in Norway the European Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) felt it appropriate to share an update of work so far accomplished with the National Scout...
Scouting has begun development of a fantastic new tool to help Scouts everywhere to fund projects! It is an online social funding platform that will make it easy to engage an existing donor base or reach out to new donors around the world. This new...
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...
Wrapping up the weeklong Asia-Pacific events in Bangkok, the National Scout Organization of Thailand hosted the Asia-Pacific Regional Scout Committee meeting on 15-16 October 2016 in Bangkok. In the evening of 15 October, Regional Committee members...
We are excited to welcome three new interns to our Digital Engagement team! Luis Aguayo, Camila Delgado, and Caitlin Weich have joined the team on a six month internship to help work on some big projects that are coming up for this department...
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...
Telling stories of Scouting through various media channels was a key topic at the APR Workshop on Strengthening Internal and External Communications held in Bangkok on 11-15 October 2016, hosted by the National Scout Organization of Thailand. 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...
It has been a couple of years since Scout.org was last updated, so it is time to bring it up to date and add some new helpful features! The new look site will be launched soon, with all the same great content from users like you. You will still be...