News and Stories
The World Organization of the Scout Movement is saddened by the news this past Easter weekend when on Sunday, April 21, 2019 a series of coordinated attacks were carried out at several hotels and churches in Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa in Sri...
Fung Hiu Lam, more fondly called as Helen, is the chairlady of the National Rover Scout Council of Scout Association of Hong Kong. During her term, she focused on organising a service project aiming to promote a more integrated community for ethnic...
Copenhagen will be hosting the Global Goals World Cup on 14 May 2019. The Danish Scouts (KFUM-Spejderne) and their Tunisian partners Les Scouts Tunisiens will be represented. Their partnership project Future Leaders has qualified for the tournament...
The prestigious Effie awards, which celebrate the effectiveness of marketing communications, were once again awarded at the Days of Communication in Rovinj. These awards are bestowed on the best agencies and advertisers for outstanding market...
Scouting Ireland is a Member Organization of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) with a total membership of 50,000, approximately 10 per cent of whom are adult volunteers. Scouting Ireland supports the growth and development of young...
Over the last weekend (9-10 February 2019) in Oltarzew near Warsaw, Poland , special task force of ZHP (Polish Scouting and Guiding Association) volunteers held a meeting to make progress in their endeavour on the way to review and update the...
A delegation of 11 members of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) of Thailand who are also members of the World Scout Parliamentary Union (WSPU), together with their Kenyan counterparts were recently in Nairobi on four-day visit. Led by the...
On Sunday, 13 January, Mr Pawel Adamowicz, who served as the Mayor of Gdańsk in Poland, was violently attacked at a charity event and died shortly thereafter from injuries. This unimaginable act of violence was a shock to members of the Scout...
World Scouting today welcomed Pathfinder Scouts Vietnam as its 170 th member, marking a historic moment as Vietnam formally rejoins the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) after 44 years. The move comes following a period of collaboration...
As we are about to transition into a new year, we are coming to you to celebrate 2018, which has been an incredible year for Scouting in Africa, in every aspect. 2018 has been a year of empowerment with many training courses, workshops and capacity...
Volunteers are willing to take part in Scouting in various ways, not only as leaders, but also as journalists or creating multimedia content. We show you here how Scouts of Spain (ASDE España) have developed their own reporters team across the...
1 November 2018, Nairobi - Kenya: November 1 st is Africa Youth Day – Thank you African Union for recognizing the youth as key agents for social change, economic growth and sustainable development in all areas of African society. Today, we celebrate...
Nairobi – Kenya: For the first time in 23 years the Africa Scout Foundation has launched its own website. Previously hosted on the scout.org/africascoutfoundation, news, stories, projects and other information about the foundation will from 1 st...
The 9th Asia-Pacific Regional Scout Youth Forum held from 9 to 12 October in Tagaytay City was a tremendous success. The forum, attended by 125 young adult delegates and observers from 27 NSOs broke the record as the biggest in attendance in the...
19 October 2018, Kuala Lumpur:Two million young people from around the world are expected to take part in this year’s Jamboree-On-The-Air-Jamboree-On-The-Internet(JOTA-JOTI),the world’s biggest Scouting event. During JOTA-JOTI, which takes place this...