Interamerica News

Today, many households play video games. Video games are a source of family entertainment with parents, children, and even grandparents all vying for their entertainment systems. Today’s parents increasingly view video games as a positive and often...

MANZINI - From 20 to 23 May 2010, the second in a series of communication forums was held in the Kingdom of Swaziland. This training that targeted anglophone National Scout Organizations (NSOs) brought together all NSOs of the southern region of...

MANZINI - From 21 – 22 May 2010, the Swaziland Scout Association hosted a workshop on HIV and child abuse. Participants were drawn from the Southern Zone of the Africa Scout Region. Delegates started by seeking a common understanding to the question...

Towards the end of 2008 the Hungarian Scout Association (HSA) launched and experimental Scout Leader Training programme, that has finally come to an end in May of 2010. The Scout Association has seen that the results from this pilot programme are...

How have the Alps evolved? How do seeds develop into a grown up tree? These are a few questions that were asked to all participants of the SCENES seminar on their eco-adventure tour. However, many of them are already involved in environment education...

Kandersteg, Wednesday 19th May, the participants focus for the day was on the vision for SCENES centres in the future and ideas from some of the participants are included in the attached presentation. In the next few days, participants will be...

On 1ST & 2nd of May 24th Asoka Group,South Calcutta Bharat Scouts & Guides organized a camp in Sunder ban’s Bali island in collaboration with We Stand for Environment & Education ( WEE). WEE is a society dedicated to environment & education to create...

30 participants from 19 countries arrived in Kandersteg International Scout Centre for the second SCENES (Scout Centres for Excellence in Nature and the Environment) seminar. Participants arrived from Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech...

pokes people for the movement and equip them with tools so that they may be better able to represent the movement. All this with the greater goal of building NSO's capacity in “telling the story” of the movement. The Interamerican Regional...

Kandersteg International Scout Centre's first contest for creativity in Scouting! Starting date: 1st May 2010 Closing date: 31st December 2010 As a Centre of World Scouting, we believe that we are in a unique position to share, fulfil the values and...

The Executive Directors' Team of the World Scout Bureau (WSB) comprises the Secretary General Luc Panissod and the 8 Executive Directors in the various WSB Offices around the world, including the six Regional Directors. The Team meets every six...

A team from Bookbridge met with Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, on 23rd April 2010 in Berlin as part of the social project competition called “startsocial,” a yearly competition hosted by McKinsey and the Chancellor‘s office. For the huge...

World Day Against Child Labour 12 June 2010 Theme: Go for the goal: End child labour Celebrated on 12 June each year, the World Day Against Child Labour 2010 comes just one month after a major Global Conference on Child Labour in the Netherlands, the...

Four months after the earthquake, here is some news from our Haitian friends. For the past few weeks they have been working on defining their actions in the context of their country's reconstruction phase. In partnership with the State, local and...

The second series of Regional Communication Forums were presented to members of the World Scout Committee who were meeting in Kandersteg (Switzerland) last Sunday. This support program to National Scout Organizations wishing to implement...