Every year thousands of turtles – no bigger than the palm of a hand - skit across the sand and plunge into the foaming surf on Malaysia’s east coast – the beginning of a life that is a daily battle for survival from predators, pollution and people. “Only one out of 1,000...

A BackStage Story by the Scout Donation Platform

Joe Doherty wants to become the first Scout in the world to ski to the South Pole and back.

The British Outward Bound...

London - Two British adventurers, Robert McArthur and Poldy van Lynden, have completed their three month and 5,000-kilometre trek from London to the Arctic in support of UK Scouts. The due rowed into the harbour at Longyearbyen, the world’s most northerly inhabited...

The Hague - In the shadow of the pier at Scheveningen, a couple of boys are playing on the beach, searching for shells and unsuspecting sea creatures to add to the pulsating jellyfish they’ve already tipped into their bright blue bucket. This 11 kilometre stretch of...

A BackStage Story by the Scout Donation Platform

Amid a deepening economic crisis in Venezuela, hundreds of people are crossing the border into northern Brazil every day in search of a better future.

Now, Scouts from across Brazil are setting up troops for the...

An award-winning independent film director and an Emmy-nominated investigative documentary maker will join leading personalities in World Scouting on the jury for the World Scout Film Festival, the first time such an event has been organised by the Movement. The festival...

For four years Majd Elewi was a member of the Scouts in his hometown of Homs. Their Scout hut was like a second home; a place to hang out at the weekend, the walls decorated with the group’s collection of scarves and photos of their adventures. But when Syria descended into...

Scouts in Guatemala have been hard at work helping people who fled their homes on the slopes of Mount Fuego after the volcano erupted for the first time in more than 40 years, sending a scalding mixture of gas and volcanic rocks hurtling through nearby villages, and burying...

On Singapore’s north western coast, overlooking the limpid waters of the Straits of Johor, Sarimbun has been the location for the city-state’s main Scout camp for 50 years. Sarimbun has hosted some of the Singapore Scout Association’s most important events including the...

A BackStage Story by the Scout Donation Platform

Safidy is a young man tackling one of Madagascar’s biggest taboos – menstrual hygiene.

It hasn’t been easy for him to talk about the subject openly, especially as the young Scout is breaking a taboo by providing...