The World Organization of the Scout Movement is hosting a contest to design the Logo of this year’s edition of the Jamboree-On-The-Air and Jamboree-On-The-Internet (JOTA - JOTI) Scouts around the world are invited to submit their design. This logo...

Some 3,000 American Boy Scouts paraded on Omaha Beach on Saturday April 16th, forming the phrase, "Normandie, Land of Liberty". Omaha Beach is one the five landing beaches of Normandy. The goal of the operation was to provide support to have these...

South African Scouts mobilised quickly to support over two hundred fire-fighters and conservation staff during this weekend’s devastating wild fires on the Helderberg mountain that saw eleven houses and a hotel burned to the ground. Scouts, adult...

The JOTA-JOTI Logo Contest will be ending this Saturday. It has been incredibly popular with more than 100 designs submitted in only one month. We were very impressed with the wonderful diversity, quality and professionalism of the designs that were...

On the weekend of 30 April – 01 May 2011, the ICMYO Task Force met at the World Scout Bureau in Geneva, Switzerland. The members of the Task Force are a group of organisations of ICMYO who volunteer their efforts in service to ICMYO to plan the...

117 different logos were submitted on the Facebook page for the JOTA-JOTI 2011 logo contest. One of the logos submitted received more than 300 votes, four had more than 200 fans and about ten had over 100 votes. The designs that received the most...

Javier Elias, 24 from Peru took part in a video contest organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on the occasion of its 50th Anniversary. For the contest, the participants were invited to create a short video...

After several days of suspense we finally have the results of the JOTA JOTI logo competition in which almost 120 scouts from all over the world partipated. The theme for this year's event is "Peace, Environment and Natural Disasters" and the proposed...

An Extended Executive Director Meeting is taking place in Kandersteg from 16 to 21 May 2011. 58 Executives of the World Scout Bureau Central Office and it's six Regional Offices are meeting in the wonderful setting of the Kandersteg International...

In collaboration with a team of leaders in Tunisia, Scouts from Libya organized fun activities and games for the children of the refugee camp. Fleeing ones home and living as a refugee in a foreign country can be especially difficult for children...