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"Youth Involvement is a capacity-building process, based on enabling young people to actively share responsibility with adults for making decisions that affect their lives, and the lives of others in their community” – World Youth Involvement Policy...
On the 10th of January 2018, the World Scout Bureau Africa Support Centre handed over a classroom, 10 desks and over 50 text books to Jans Amboseli Academy, a small Maasai community school in Loitokitok, Kenya. This was in fulfillment of a commitment...
Do you want to celebrate with us the Rover Centenary? Do you want to experience the magic of Permanent Mini Jamboree with Rovers from all around the world? And do you want to make friends that will last a lifetime, have fun in an incredible Alpine...
Scouting empowers young people with life skills, and in the case of Will Tankersley from the USA – life-saving skills. The incident happened a mall in Statesboro, Georgia, when Will and his family were out on a day of shopping. Everything was going...
This year 2018 began with the One World Scout Bureau meeting, taking place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia that gathered around 90 professionals from all support centres around the world. Discussions touched upon our core values, working methods, our...
Hello, my name is Alina (RU) and I’m a short-term staff for the winter season 2018 here at KISC. It’s was my day off when I decided to participate in the KISC academy, which is a 3-days theoretical/practical training for staff from KISC and from...
Grupo Capitan Moroni and Funthasid Rover Scouts from San Cristobal, Táchira, Venezuela, held a year-end donation campaign for the children’s ward at the Central Hospital and a nursing home a few months back. They promoted their campaign through six...
Love knows no bounds, and it was precisely his love for his twin brother that inspired Blake Deaton to create an Eagle Scout service project to help students with special needs. His twin brother, Shane, is autistic and legally blind. Blake began his...
The inspired team of Asia-Pacific Support Centre on the first working Monday of 2018 – ready to take on WOSM’s new Service Model and gearing up for an action-filled conference year!
‘It’s has made a huge impact in the schools. The kids do not want the year to end,’ said Ayanda, one of the interns of the Scouting in Schools programme. This after school Scouting programme has been changing the lives of 1,200 young people from 27...
Several Scouting activities are being introduced in Thailand and a major initiative last 24th December was the “Walk for A Cause Rally”, organised under the Ticket to Life (TTL) project which had a high turn-out of over 4,000 Thai Scouts and leaders...
The newly elected Youth Advisors to the World Scout Committee have been working hard since their election in August. Have a look at their first update!
We are happy to share with you the November 2017 issue of Kudumail, the Africa Scout Region newsletter in both English and French. You can read directly online by clicking https://www.scout.org/kudumail63en and https://www.scout.org/kudumail63fr. In...
Amidst the holiday rush, Scouts took time to help in repacking relief goods and segregating food items, toiletries and clothing for the victims of Typhoon Urduja in the Philippines. Text and photo credit: Dexter C. Villa, Boy Scouts of the...