Elections of a new National Board and a vote on a series of proposed amendments were the highlights at the 16th General Assembly of Slovenský skauting (SLSK) held in the Slovak capital Bratislava on the weekend 17-19 October 2014. More than 150...

More than a month after launching the Scout Photo Community and the Scout Photo Missions Contest in partnership with PicHit.me, WOSM has received over 2,000 photos from Scouts from at least 80 countries across all six Scout regions – Africa, Arab...

WOSM’s Secretary General, Scott Teare, and Member of the World Scout Committee, Mari Nakano, met with UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, at his office in New York on 21 October 2014. During the 20-minute meeting, Scott extended an invitation to Ban...

Scouts, Scout leaders as well as National Scout Organizations from different parts of the world were awarded with the Messengers of Peace Hero Award 2014 during the recent Saudi National Day celebration in Ha’il, Saudi Arabia. The Award, conceived in...

We have an exciting announcement for you - did you know that Youth Wall (scout.org and Facebook) is in the hands of the six Youth Advisors who have been elected to the Forum of the World Scout Youth in Slovenia in August? This means that we will be...

Hello to our Scout family! We are your six Youth Advisors (from left to right – Montaser, Luis, Maire, Daiana, Jeremy, and Maeed). We wish you a very happy JOTA-JOTA weekend from the Catskill Mountains, USA. All six of us are spending the weekend...

Cub Scouts from Langata Junior Troop at the World Scout Bureau Africa participating in the #JotaJoti

These days the National Scout Movement of Armenia “HASK” was glad to host Martin Kristensen, a good friend of the organization and a Danish international scout-trainer. This time he arrived in Armenia together with two other trainers, Christian Gow...

The third week of July next year will turn the French city of Strasbourg into a sea of red, when some 15000 Pionniers & Caravelles (young people aged 14 to 17 years) will come together for the National Jamboree “You’re Up!”. Are you up for it, too?...

The South African Radio League, the national body for amateur radio in South Africa, ran an essay competition at the end of 2013. The winners of the competition are two brothers, both involved in Scouting and they are licensed radio amateurs. The...