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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...
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[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...
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The 1st of November was proclaimed and instituted as The Africa Youth Day on the occasion of the African Youth Charter adoption in the Executive Council Decision of the Banjul Summit 2006. Africa Youth Day is a day set aside every year to promote 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...
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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...
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This picture was taken a year ago on the island of Lesvos in Greece. Together with the following text it was published by journalist and local Scout Leader Stratis Balaskas on the website of the Greek news agency he works for. A year later, the...
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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...
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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...
Benjamin Antoine is a member of Scouts d’Haïti, he lives in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti. He started his Scouting experience as a Cub in the 90s, and since then, he always brought his help when natural disasters struck Haiti: hurricanes in 2004...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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