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Project Manager - Scouting Development World Scout Bureau Global Support Center, Kuala Lumpur The Scouting Development Global Team is seeking a Project Manager to join its team in the World Scout Bureau Global Support Centre in Kuala Lumpur. The...

In August 2014, the 40th World Scout Conference was held in Libubliana, Eslovenia. The Strategy for Scouting that was approved includes: • World Scout Mission • Vision 2023 • 6 Stragetic Priorities. The World Scout Mission is the same statement...

Are you ready for the Scouting adventure of a lifetime? Months of planning and preparation are about to culminate in a life-changing Scouting adventure, the 23rd World Scout Jamboree (WSJ). More than 30,000 Scouts from around the world will gather in...

This bulletin provides general details about the upcoming 16th Africa Scout Conference and the 7th Africa Scout Youth Forum. It also gives some useful information to help participants plan and prepare for their journey to Uganda in August. Happy...

Five weeks from now will be the moment some 33’000 Scouts from 147 countries around the world have been waiting for for at least four years: they will gather for the opening ceremony of the 23rd World Scout Jamboree in Yamaguchi in Japan! Most of the...

Read the interview João Armando Gonçalves, Chairperson of the World Scout Committee, had with International Geneva in conjunction with the recent opening of the WSB Global Support Centre, Geneva. Click here.

We are looking for the cover photo for the 2015 Scouts of the World Award Guidelines and we need your help. Please like and share this post to get the news out there. Do you have an inspiring photo from your SW Award project or another exciting...

“The quality of our future depends on the quality of leaders we shape today.” The first Interamerican Leadership Training (ILT), which was held from 26 December 2013 to 1 January 2014, signified the creation of a new generation of Scout Leaders for...

"Recently, the ‪ European Scout Committee‬ has been exploring the topic of ‪gender‬, and I had the opportunity to participate in one of the sessions. I think it was a very worthwhile exercise. I believe that our main concern should be ensuring that...

Thirty one key leaders from nine NSOs have gathered on 22-25 June in the beautiful Khangku Resort in Paro, Bhutan for the APR Seminar on Life Skills for the 21st Century. The opening ceremony was graced by the honorable Secretary of Education Ms...

Don Ramsay didn't think twice when he saw two Cub Scouts disappear beneath the surface of the Waitawheta River in the Karangahake Gorge. Ramsay, a Cub Scout leader at St Peter's Scout Group in Hamilton, discovered they were trying to pull an adult...

Save Our Shores Project is the first Scout of the World Voluntary Service in Malaysia and fully conducted by Rover Scouts from Penang State, Malaysia. This Save Our Shores Project collaboration with Penang Inshore Fishermen Welfare Association (PIFWA...

This weekend, HM Queen Máxima, patron of Scouting Nederland, the National Scout Organisation of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) in the Netherlands, joined hundreds of Scouts and Guides to celebrate the official opening of...

Ramadan mubarak

“Do build bridges in a society that is used to putting up walls!”, H. H. Pope Francis urged some 100,000 Scouts from the Associazione Guide e Scout Cattolici Italiani who had gathered on Saint Peter’s Square on 13 June 2015.