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For the first time ever, this Saturday, 5 August 2017, Scouting Nederland participated in the Canal Parade in Amsterdam. In the middle of thousands of boats and ships decorated for the occasion, Scouting Nederland’s boat stood out and proudly carried...
Leadership from 167 National Scout Organizations representing over 40 million Scouts will convene on Monday for the World Scouting’s ‘general assembly’, the World Scout Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Conference will take place from 14-18 August...
Six years ago some 40000 Scouts gathered in southern Sweden at the 22nd World Scout Jamboree to spend 12 memorable days. This week 11000 are back for Jamboree17, the Swedish National Jamboree. Jamboree17 is this year’s largest Scout and Guide event...
Congratulations to our new Youth Advisors – Diana Carrillo Tiburcio (Mexico), Mori Chi-kin Cheng (Hong Kong), Julius Kramer (Sweden), Edgar Marumbu (Kenya), Martin Meier (Liechtenstein) and Amal Ridene (Tunisia)! These six outstanding young people...
One of the key topics featured on the second day of the 13th World Scout Youth Forum was the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and how they are relevant to Scouting. This panel session invited leaders and young people in Scouting to discuss...
Here is an impressive postcard which reached us from Escutismo (Corpo Nacional de Escutas) in Portugal: "More than 22.000 #scouts gathered at Acanac XXII (the 22nd National Jamboree) from all age sections are ready to embrace the future and make the...
Durante 3 días (21 al 23 de julio de 2017) el Centro de Apoyo Interamérica albergó a 19 participantes del continente para el Taller de Gestión de Adultos en el Movimiento Scout, Orientaciones para la implementación. Su tuvo la compañía de asesores...
En el marco del Taller de implementación de la Guía de Diversidad e Inclusión, el día 24 de junio de 2017 se realizó una experiencia de actividades unificadas con los atletas de Olimpiadas Especiales Panamá. Durante la actividad se conoció la misión...
The 13th World Scout Youth Forum is now happening at Gabala, Azerbaijan! Over 325 young people from 120 NSOs spread across the six Scout Regions are taking part in World Scouting’s biggest and most diverse Forum yet! Organised by WOSM and hosted by...
Welcome to the 13th World Scout Youth Forum! This is the biggest Forum ever! And it is also the most diverse, largely due to a very generous solidarity programme which enabled the participation of many countries that would otherwise have difficulties...
On 2 August 2017, 38 Scouts from the Tily Eto Madagasikara National Scout Association (NSA) met with an accident while travelling to join over 2,000 other Scouts at a National Scout Camp under the Messengers of Peace Project that is supported by the...
WOSM and the Government of Malaysia have signed today an agreement to support the work of our Global Support Centre in Malaysia. The World Scout Committee Chairperson, João Armando Gonçalves and the Secretary General of the World Organization of the...
Before a crowd of more than 5,000 Scouts from 30 countries attending the 31st APR Scout Jamboree, WOSM Secretary General Ahmad Alhendawi, addressed the organisers and participants through a video message saying “the Jamboree is a time to fully...
The Scouts of Stroggili in Corfu (Greece) feel close to the children of the village of Vrissa in Lesvos, also in Greece. Vrissa and other areas on the island of Lesvos experienced a particularly powerful earthquake last June which not only resulted...
Over 5,000 Scouts from all over the world, aged between 18 and 25, gathered in Iceland from 25 July to 2 August 2017 to participate in the biggest Moot ever in Scouting history. At the closing ceremony, WOSM Secretary General, Ahmad Alhendawi called...