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For more than 100 years, Scouting has helped young people to connect with the outdoors, learn from nature and care for the environment. From identifying ways to reduce water consumption in Australia, educating communities on recycling in Mexico...
Today at 8:30 AM, marked the opening of the 11th World Scout Youth Forum in Blumenau, Brazil. Attended by over 160 participants representing more than 60, at present, countries this long awaited event is the first important institutional event in the...
As the World Scout Youth Forum (WSYF) progresses, the participants tackle more delicate issues. The two main over arching themes of this Forum are Youth Empowerment and Scouting as a World Wide Movement. Emphasis on this second day was put on Youth...
As soon as they reached Blumenau, participants got ready to kick-off the long-awaited event, the 11th World Scout Youth Forum. Among various happenings, delegations of about 21 NSOs were busy displaying experiences or good practices extracted from...
The World Scout Youth Forum continues at full steam, with workshops and activities designed to engage and challenge the participants on the day’s topic or thematic focus. Today the participants explored the concept of life skills, what they are and...
After 4 days of sound contribution through inputs, workshops, open forum deliberations and exhibitions, the 11th World Scout Youth Forum concluded on the evening of 6th January and sessions were officially closed when the gong resounded. Participants...
As is custom during the World Scout Conference, NSO’s bid to host the next major World Scout events. This years contenders were vying to host the next, World Scout Conference in 2014, World Scout Moot in 2017and the next World Scout Jamboree in 2019...
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...
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...
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...