Riding the waves of online shopping, APR “Scout Bazaar”, an interactive platform for online shopping of Scout products in the Asia-Pacific Region will start midnight of 21st October this year. Excited for another milestone in Asia-Pacific, seven...

Whenever Scouts travel abroad it is always good to contact a local Group in advance, and that is just what a group of Rover Scouts from Portugal did when they planned their recent trip to the United Kingdom (UK). And then they ended up dancing down a...

European International Scout Camps 2018 Most of you will only just have returned from your annual Summer Camp. Many will be in the middle of sorting out hundreds, if not thousands, of pictures capturing the different activities of their camp. Looking...

Every three years, at the World Scout Youth Forum, a team of six young people are elected. On paper, their main role is to serve as Youth Advisors to the World Scout Committee (WSC). However, in reality, their responsibilities are far more varied and...

At the Closing Session of the 41st World Scout Conference, the Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), Ahmad Alhendawi, called on the Conference/Member Organizations to drive further growth and deepen impact. “Vision...

More and more devastating forest fires mark the summer period in southern parts of Europe. More often than not Scouts are engaged in their local communities to support the firefighters. Here is a story from Montenegro. Over the past days nembers of...

The Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), Ahmad Alhendawi, and the Senior Advisor to the Under-Secretary-General of UN Women and Head of HeForShe Initiative, Elizabeth Nyamayaro, signed a Memorandum of...

This is the third day this week that Scouts from Ελληνικός Προσκοπισμός (the Scouts of Greece) are actively supporting firefighters engaged in battles against devastating forest fires in mainland Greece. Over the past couple of days several...

The 41st World Scout Conference today elected the 12 members of the World Scout Committee (WSC), the executive body of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). Hailing from the six WOSM Regions around the world, the newly-elected members...

The Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia. Its main ethnic groups are Arabs and Kurds. Others include Assyrians, Turkmen, Shabakis, Yazidis, Armenians, Mandeans, Circassians and Kawliya. The capital and largest city is Baghdad. Scouting was...