Scouting and Humanitarian Action
We are gathering four young panelists to take part in our Youth Panel, taking place on Wednesday 30 November 2022 from 19:00-20:00 CET. These Scout panelists have been active in the response for Ukraine, and will be engaging among themselves and...
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Marci Hajdu, 26-years old, is a Scout leader in Hungary, who was among the first responders at a railway station, assisting newly arrived refugee families from Ukraine. Marci holds a degree in psychology and has been actively involved in the UAct...
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Over the last six months, Scouts in Europe have provided humanitarian assistance to more than 800,000 Ukrainian refugees, of which 270,000 are children and adolescents, according to a report recently published by UNICEF and the Scout Movement.
Kira, 12-years-old, was forced to leave Ukraine in February and find safety in neighbouring Lithuania. As part of the UAct Project, carried out in partnership with UNICEF, Kira was able to join the Lithuanian Scouts’ summer camps and be invited to...
As families fled the escalating violence in Ukraine, young Scouts like 25-year-old Raluca were among the first responders at the borders of neighbouring countries, offering urgent support like food, accommodation and access to information to help the...
Helping every person, in every circumstance, is part of what we do as Scouts. Since the war in Ukraine began, Scouts from all over have reached out to support their peers and help with the humanitarian response. World Scouting immediately launched a...
GENEVA/BRUSSELS, 7 April 2022 – UNICEF and the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) today launched a regional cooperation agreement to provide critical care and support to children and families fleeing the war in Ukraine.
Around 300 Scout Health Guard programme volunteers in Hong Kong assisted in packing more than 30,000 anti-epidemic kit on 26 March.
The tropical cyclones Ana and Batsirai which started in late January 2022 have brought with them great devastation across parts of Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. From massive flooding to the destruction of homes and crop fields and...
Scouts of Greece have been on the front line to alleviate as much as possible the environmental and human repercussions of the ongoing wildfires. Over the last two months only, over 500 fires have erupted in Greece, causing the destruction of more...