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We are excited to welcome three new interns to our Digital Engagement team! Luis Aguayo, Camila Delgado, and Caitlin Weich have joined the team on a six month internship to help work on some big projects that are coming up for this department...
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Child and Youth protection is central to all that is done in Scouting, so it is important that this area is continually evaluated and updated. To help NSOs raise awareness of this important area a paper was put together with useful advice for...
Telling stories of Scouting through various media channels was a key topic at the APR Workshop on Strengthening Internal and External Communications held in Bangkok on 11-15 October 2016, hosted by the National Scout Organization of Thailand. For...
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The Haitian National Civil Protection Agency (DPC), one of the many stakeholders collaborating with the Scouts of Haiti, has reported that 1.4 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. More than 120,000 families have lost their...
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This weekend JOTA-JOTI broke a number of Scouting records, becoming the biggest Scouting event by participant numbers that the world has ever seen. JOTA-JOTI had over 11,000 groups registered, some of these with over 500 participants! The final...
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The APR Management Sub-Committee Meeting met on 13th October at Yellow Ribbon Hotel, in Bangkok, Thailand. Sub-Committee Chairman Dr. Somboon Bunyasiri of Thailand chaired the meeting with Vice-Chairmen Neville Tomkins and Justine Kim from Australia...
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It has been a couple of years since Scout.org was last updated, so it is time to bring it up to date and add some new helpful features! The new look site will be launched soon, with all the same great content from users like you. You will still be...
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If you missed our first JOTA JOTI Campfire here is the replay! For more info go to www.scout.org/jotajoticampfires Karlien is a volunteer leader in Belgium who helps to promote Scouting for young people with disabilities and reaches out to those...
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If you missed our first JOTA JOTI Campfire here is the replay! For more info go to www.scout.org/jotajoticampfires Jesus presented the process implemented by the Region to generate institutional guidelines on Diversity & Inclusion, both with its...
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If you missed our first JOTA JOTI Campfire here is the replay! For more info go to www.scout.org/jotajoticampfires Hana Pasic will be talked about the impact of Scouting, witnessed through the evaluation of the Messengers of Peace initiative. She...
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Was yours one of them? Our radios crackled to life yesterday evening and we connected almost instantly with our first contact in the USA. Since then the World Scout Bureau has talked to 7 more countries on our radios, and 6 more via Scoutlink (whilst...
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If you missed our first JOTA JOTI Campfire here is the replay! Don't forget to share and join us for the next one "YOUNG PEOPLE IN POVERTY AND DISABILITY"Sat Oct 15 2016 15:00 GMT For more info go to www.scout.org/jotajoticampfires Shaun will talked...
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