Eurasia News

Poldej Worachat has been an active member of the Scout Movement since joining the Scouts in 1967. The wood badge Scout Leader is the Assistant Commissioner of the National Scout Organization of Thailand (NSOT), advisor for the sub-committee of the...

Four months after the 22nd European Scout Conference in Norway the European Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) felt it appropriate to share an update of work so far accomplished with the National Scout...

Benjamin Antoine is a member of Scouts d’Haïti, he lives in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti. He started his Scouting experience as a Cub in the 90s, and since then, he always brought his help when natural disasters struck Haiti: hurricanes in 2004...

Scouting has begun development of a fantastic new tool to help Scouts everywhere to fund projects! It is an online social funding platform that will make it easy to engage an existing donor base or reach out to new donors around the world. This new...

The World Scout Bureau welcomes Dong-Wook Lee, the new Global Director of Communications and External Relations. Dong-Wook holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, as well as a...

Wrapping up the weeklong Asia-Pacific events in Bangkok, the National Scout Organization of Thailand hosted the Asia-Pacific Regional Scout Committee meeting on 15-16 October 2016 in Bangkok. In the evening of 15 October, Regional Committee members...

We are excited to welcome three new interns to our Digital Engagement team! Luis Aguayo, Camila Delgado, and Caitlin Weich have joined the team on a six month internship to help work on some big projects that are coming up for this department...

Child and Youth protection is central to all that is done in Scouting, so it is important that this area is continually evaluated and updated. To help NSOs raise awareness of this important area a paper was put together with useful advice for...

Telling stories of Scouting through various media channels was a key topic at the APR Workshop on Strengthening Internal and External Communications held in Bangkok on 11-15 October 2016, hosted by the National Scout Organization of Thailand. For...

The Haitian National Civil Protection Agency (DPC), one of the many stakeholders collaborating with the Scouts of Haiti, has reported that 1.4 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. More than 120,000 families have lost their...

This weekend JOTA-JOTI broke a number of Scouting records, becoming the biggest Scouting event by participant numbers that the world has ever seen. JOTA-JOTI had over 11,000 groups registered, some of these with over 500 participants! The final...

The APR Management Sub-Committee Meeting met on 13th October at Yellow Ribbon Hotel, in Bangkok, Thailand. Sub-Committee Chairman Dr. Somboon Bunyasiri of Thailand chaired the meeting with Vice-Chairmen Neville Tomkins and Justine Kim from Australia...

It has been a couple of years since Scout.org was last updated, so it is time to bring it up to date and add some new helpful features! The new look site will be launched soon, with all the same great content from users like you. You will still be...

If you missed our first JOTA JOTI Campfire here is the replay! For more info go to www.scout.org/jotajoticampfires Karlien is a volunteer leader in Belgium who helps to promote Scouting for young people with disabilities and reaches out to those...

If you missed our first JOTA JOTI Campfire here is the replay! For more info go to www.scout.org/jotajoticampfires Jesus presented the process implemented by the Region to generate institutional guidelines on Diversity & Inclusion, both with its...