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Looking for a new place for your next Scout camp? Or would like to promote your Scout centres, campsites and other venues? Look no more. You can now do that on scout.org. That’s right. Just like Scout Centres of Excellence for Nature and Environment...
Scouts Omar and Saad, were forced to flee their war-torn country, Syria, almost two years ago. Today, they call Australia their home and are proud members of Scouts Australia. While they are adapting well, thanks to the acceptance of the local...
The Bhutan Scouts Association (BSA) adopted the Messenger of Peace Initiatives of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) in 2012. In the last 3 years, BSA has been promoting the initiative, however gradually but with firm dedication. To...
The Singapore Scout Association hosted the action-packed Regional Scout Committee meeting last weekend – coinciding with the worldwide JOTA-JOTI and the launch of APR Scout Bazaar! What’s more? 100% attendance of Regional Scout Committee (RSC) led by...
Tanzania scouts participated in the World Scouts Jamboree on the air which took place all over the world. in Tanzania the event took place Nationally at Zanzibar Island on Friday evening the 20th Oct 2017 until 22nd Oct 2017. Since 2011 TSA decided...
As is the office tradition during the JOTA-JOTI weekend, every year the WSB Africa Support Centre hosts a Station at its premises located at Rowallan National Scouts Camp in Nairobi and invites Scouts to take part. This year the office partnered with...
Cub Scouts, Boy and Girl Scouts, Rovers and Venturers from all over the world had an awesome JOTA-JOTI last weekend. This year, JOTA celebrates its 60th year of connecting Scouts. It brought together over 12,000 groups from the Africa, Arab, Asia...
Today, over 300 Scouts visited the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) JOTA-JOTI station in Kuala Lumpur. Held at a primary school and run by Malaysian Scout leaders and Rover Scouts, the station was buzzing with activities since the...
It was a very sunny yet chilly day at the International Scout Centre Rustavi (ISCR) in southeast Georgia. For many, it seemed like any other first day in a Scout workshop, but for some of the 17 participants, it was their first international...
We've got great interactive sessions ready for you this JOTA-JOTI! Are you interested in finding out how you can be a more active citizen, do more to protect our environment, as well as promote peace and dialogue in your community? If you are, you're...
On the coming Saturday morning (21st Oct. 2017), Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) & Jamboree on the Internet (JOTI) activities will be kicked off at the base of WSB, Arab Support Center where some of 300 cub scouts and scouts from different scouting groups...
Themed ‘Prepared - For a Changing World’, the 2nd World Scout Education Congress gathered Scout leaders from 98 National Scout Organizations from all World Scouting Regions at the Kandersteg International Scout Centre in Switzerland. From 11-15 May...
The Asia-Pacific Regional (APR) Workshop on Adult Support to Youth Programme was hosted by the Scout Association of Hong Kong (SAHK) on 21-24 September 2017 at the BP International House, Hong Kong. The aim of the workshop is to provide an avenue to...
During the 4th Africa-Europe Youth Summit held between 9-11 October 2017 in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, participants had the chance to share their own point of view, to speak up and let their voice be heard by Heads of States of the African Union and...
The Fee System and Voting Rights Task Force (FV Task Force) was mandated by the World Scout Committee to evaluate and explore alternatives to the current fees and voting systems having in mind the unity and development of Scouting around the world...