Africa
At the Annual Global Cristal Awards held in Courchevel, France in December 2015, the SCOUTS South Africa advert ‘Learn It Young. Remember It Forever.’ won a Gold Award in the Film category. The film, which currently has over 3.9 million views on You...
When the Ebola pandemic gripped West African countries, Scouts were among the people at the forefront fighting the deadly disease. Now that the disease is no more, we are pleased to share with you a very inspirational story from Marlaye Souma, a...
Between On 9 – 10 November 2015, UNICEF hosted the “Start-up to Scale-up: Global Innovations for Children and Youth Summit” in Helsinki, Finland. There are many great innovations and solutions emerging in our newly connected world for accelerating...
The Africa Scout Committee held its first official meeting of the 2015-2018 triennium on 14-15 December 2015 in Nairobi. This is the first time the committee elected at the 16th Africa Scout Conference held in Uganda in August was officially meeting...
In September 2015, world leaders from all 193 United Nations (UN) Member States committed to 17 Global Goals to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years: End extreme poverty; Fight inequality & injustice; Fix climate change. The Global...
In early November, the Government of Sierra Leone and its partners announced the official end of the Ebola outbreak which had gripped the country for over 18 months. The Scouts of Sierra Leone are among the actors who have played a key role in this...
From 7th to 11th December, Scout from the East Africa countries converged in Kenya for the annual zonal Scout activities. NSO leaders, Junior, Senior and Rover Scouts came together for various events. The adults converged at the Embu Scout Centre for...
On Thursday 12 November 122015, the first ever Nairobi Peace Talks were held at the United Nations Office in Nairobi (UNON). Jointly organized by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) of Kenya and Interpeace under the theme ‘I...
Started in May 2015, the Messengers of Peace project on organisational skills reinforcement for Scoutisme Béeninois endeavours to help the leaders of the NSO in the implementation of reforms on non-conformity areas identified from by the SGS audit...
Dear Friends; We are happy to share with you the December issue of Kudumail, the Africa Scout Region newsletter. You can read it below or at by clicking www.scout.org/kudumail44. Enjoy your reading.