Africa News

Overnight, a historic milestone was achieved – a counter, set at zero just over 24 months ago, passed the 600 million mark. That’s 600,000,000 hours of service provided to local communities around the world by over 10 million people whom King...

"600 million service hours, 5 million community projects. How soon do you think we’ll reach 1 billion community service hours?” - Scott Teare, Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement

On 3 December 2014, WOSM and UNESCO signed an agreement to promote the World Heritage Education programme that encourages young people to take part in projects related to heritage conservation and protection. Through this agreement, WOSM and UNESCO...

The Scout Movement has, since 1907, reached over 1 billion young people. And we do that by engaging the services of some 7 million volunteer leaders around the world." - WOSM Secretary General, Scott Teare, in conjunction with International Volunteer...

Thirty-four volunteer Scouts from the Arab Region recently spent three weeks from 8 to 27 November 2014 in Cairo, Egypt, at the 7th Super Diploma in Media, Communications and Marketing Programme. They took time away from family and work/studies to...

Inside WOSM and UNICEF Collaborate to Establish Global Communications Network through the U-report Scouts Embark on Ebola Awareness Campaign Walk for Peace Scouts and Red Cross Volunteers say no to Ebola Africa Scout Foundation Member Chief Addy...

The European Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), the European Regional Office of the World Scout Bureau (WSB) and the team of EuroScoutInfo join the family of Scouting in Norway ( Norges speiderforbund and Norges...

The Scout Photo Missions Contest was organized with the aim of promoting the new Scout Photo Community (http://photomissions.scout.org) on scout.org. The contest, which ended on 20 October 2014, received more than 2,000 photos from at least 80...

This weekend, the members of the European Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) met for a joint meeting with the members of the Europe Committee of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) in...

Dear Colleagues On the weekend of 15-16 November, a bus transporting a group of scouts to a national event of Asociación de Scouts de México A.C met with an accident, resulting in the tragic death of 3 scouts and 38 others injured (some critically)...

18 November 2014, Kuala Lumpur: The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) and the UNICEF Global Innovation Centre have entered into an agreement aimed at establishing a global communications network through the U-report. The signing of the...

On November 15, an event dedicated to the 96th anniverary of Homenetmen and 25th anniversary of Homenetmen-HASK was held in Hrazdan, by the initiative of the Board of Hrazdan Chapter. Scouts from all the chapters of the National Scout Movement of...

Today, the team at the World Scout Bureau – Kuala Lumpur Office is pleased to welcome the 21 members of the World Scout Committee and six Youth Advisors to Malaysia as they prepare to meet over the next several days. Selamat Datang, Welcome to...

Between 6th and 10th of November 2014 in Sabunchu Youth Center in Baku (Azerbaijan) Azerbaijan, Georgian and Polish Scout leaders have carried out a training of trainers “Elbrus”. The training was a part of the bigger project “School of leaders -...

It is with great sadness that we share the sad news of the demise of Chief Addy Isaac Newton. He was the immediate former Chief Commissioner who also played several vital roles in the Ghana Scout Association even after the end of his term. He will be...