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The Scout Association in Tunisia, Les Scouts Tunisiens, will receive several special guests this weekend. The Chairperson of the World Scout Committee, João Armando Gonçalves, representing the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), will be...

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“Well done, Scouts!” titled the newspaper earlier this summer, when it featured the local Scout and Guide Group’s volunteer engagement in their home town. Not only does the Group of Telfs ( Pfadfinder Telfs, in Tirol, Austria) celebrate its 90th...

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Around 50 Rovers and Scouters of Khagrachori and Rangamati are working with the district disaster team on rescue and relief operations on a shift basis, after a series of landslides hit three districts of Bangladesh. In another location at Kaptai...

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Congratulations to the Scouts go Solar Team Philippines for a successful road show and solar exhibit on 12 June 2017, coinciding the country’s Independence Day. Scouts took the opportunity to educate and encourage communities to use solar energy...

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Scouts from Balochistan painted their views on peace and solidarity at the art walls of their schools as they took part in the United Nations Wall Campaign on peace.

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You would have by now received the sad news of the Natural Disaster situation faced by Sri Lanka in the last one week. As at present more than 600,000 people are internally displaced and one-fourth of that number have lost all their belongings and...

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Are you an active Scout who likes to raise awareness about global issues, interested in creating social impact and willing to use your voice to represent youth? Then you're in the right spot! WOSM is recognised as a consultative organisation by The...

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Vietnamese Scouts partner with Habitat for Humanity to build houses for people living in two districts of Thap province, including a bridge and water supply system.

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Dear friends, good day. We are currently in Minsk where the work of our volunteers’ strategic groups has started. Let’s see how they work! Please open sub-titles in video.

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At the beginning of May, the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) attended the “Youth and Their Social Impact” Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. WOSM was represented by a delegation of young people, led by Secretary General Ahmad Alhendawi...

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He entered the hall in a suit but decided that he had to put a scout scarf around his neck in order to feel home. John May, Secretary General of the Duke of Edinburgh`s International Award started the second day of the 2 nd World Scout Education...

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This weekend, World Scout Education Congress is currently happening at Kandersteg International Scout Centre, one of the scouting hearts in Europe. The purpose is to assist NSOs in building capacity in the areas of Youth Programme and Adults in...

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With another Learning Centre set up in Kekirawa, Sri Lanka Scouts Association continues to partner with Bookbridge in taking the English language and IT to the rural folks of Sri Lanka. It was in September 2016 that Bookbridge entered Sri Lanka and...

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“Kuzuzangpo la, do you segregate your waste at home?” asked Karma Dolma, a 13-year old Scout to the two elderly people. When the two answered that they don’t, Karma explained the importance of waste management. Karma is one of the 2,600 Scouts and...

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These days, 28-29 April, in Astana, Kazakhstan takes place the 1st Eurasia Educational Forum with the theme “Non-formal education of young people”. The Forum gathered more than 150 representatives from 16 countries: beside representatives of the NSOs...

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