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5th December was the International Volunteer Day. In celebrating all the volunteers who support Scouting at different levels we featured several volunteers. Here are the stories of Maina Kiranga, an adult from Kenya and Saloum Diouf, a young person...

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Some fifty Regional Volunteers, Committee members and members of the staff of the World Scout Bureau Europe Support Centres of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) spent a long weekend at the European Youth Centre Budapest. On the busy...

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After the launch of several “Erasmus-Scout” initiatives by National Scout Organisations (NSOs) and National Scout Associations (NSA) in the European Region of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) over recent years, the delegates...

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Myanmar Scouts is currently holding a six-day National Strategic Planning Workshop at Yangon. The workshop, dubbed as ‘National Strategic Planning Workshop for Myanmar Scouts’’ is running from 24 to 29 January 2016. The workshop is geared towards the...

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A phantastic moment of public recognition for tens of thousands of ‪Cub Scout Leaders‬ and other ‪‎Adults in Scouting‬ in The Scout Association (United Kingdom, a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in the ‪European Scout Region‬)...

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At the Annual Global Cristal Awards held in Courchevel, France in December 2015, the SCOUTS South Africa advert ‘Learn It Young. Remember It Forever.’ won a Gold Award in the Film category. The film, which currently has over 3.9 million views on You...

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On Thursday 12 November 122015, the first ever Nairobi Peace Talks were held at the United Nations Office in Nairobi (UNON). Jointly organized by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) of Kenya and Interpeace under the theme ‘I...

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From 7th to 11th December, Scout from the East Africa countries converged in Kenya for the annual zonal Scout activities. NSO leaders, Junior, Senior and Rover Scouts came together for various events. The adults converged at the Embu Scout Centre for...

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In early November, the Government of Sierra Leone and its partners announced the official end of the Ebola outbreak which had gripped the country for over 18 months. The Scouts of Sierra Leone are among the actors who have played a key role in this...

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In September 2015, world leaders from all 193 United Nations (UN) Member States committed to 17 Global Goals to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years: End extreme poverty; Fight inequality & injustice; Fix climate change. The Global...

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We are hiring an External Relations Manager who will be entrusted mainly with the task of managing relationships with WOSM’s key stakeholders. They include UN agencies and global organisations delivering non-formal education for young people...

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The Conference of Parties (COP), an annual conference of all countries that want to take action and address climate change, continues this week in Paris with further meetings and discussions. The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) has...

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Today, on International Volunteer Day, six volunteers share about their passion to serve and to nurture the growth of young people through Scouting. Maina Kiranga, Kenya 1. How long have you been volunteering? I started my Scouting journey at Fahari...

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Scouts and Guides contributing to refugee support activities in their local communities in Europe: What’s next after the #RefugeeResponseSeminar During the last weekend in November, Guides and Scouts from 27 countries gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark...

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Rafe Lucado, 2nd. Vice-Chairman of the Interamerican Scout Committee; Ralf Dillmann, Director of the Adults in Scouting and Raul Sanchez Vaca, Regional Director World Scout Bureau Interamerican Region, met Tuesday December 1st at the Regional Office...

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