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18 September, Tokyo – Two seasoned resource persons in the Asia-Pacific Region conducted an extensive orientation on World Adults In Scouting Policy (WASP) and on selected elements of the Life Cycle of an Adult. The special orientation, organized by...
14 September, Tokyo -- Ten National Scout Organizations with 25 participants are gathered at the National Olympics Memorial Youth Centre for a four-day regional workshop on Effective National Adult Resources Committee and National Training System...
The Sri Lanka Scouts Association organized the 1st Scout Integration Camp on 18th to 21st August 2011 at the Scout Training & Development Centre, in Pallekette, Kandy, an ideal camping site for its lush and green countryside. A total of 72 Scouts...
Indonesian President H.E. Dr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono conferred the Melati Award to World Scout Committee (WSC) Chairperson Simon Rhee during Gerakan Pramuka's (GP) 50th anniversary at the Cibubur Scout Complex in Jakarta on 14th August 2011. Other...
Scouts have opportunity transforming lives, giving hope, advocating peace, saving nature and reaching out to underserved sectors of society. These are just some of the acts of volunteerism and service that Scouts do, demonstrating that when Scouts...
Young Scouts Paul Stephens, Jone Naisara and Orisi Kunakata who belong to the 1st Nabua Primary School Troop were commended for helping an elderly man when attacked by three robbers in Suva. The three shared said that in the morning of 30th June...
To commemorate Gerakan Pramuka Indonesia’s 50th anniversary, the Scout association will plant one million tree seedlings throughout the country. During the launch of this massive tree planting on 23rd July 2011 in Sentul, Bogor, West Java Province...
The co-titled 28th Asia Pacific Regional Scout Jamboree and The General Association of the Scouts of China Centenary Jamboree was officially declared open at the beautiful Cheng Ching Lake in Kaohsiung, with a total of 8,230 participants from 25...
After an extremely powerful earthquake hit the Tohoku Region on 11 March 2011, triggering several meter high tsunami waves that caused massive loss of lives and properties in areas along the Pacific coast of eastern Japan, especially in Miyagi, Iwate...
23 June, Male’, Maldives – Today is the launch of the four-day Adults in Scouting workshop at the Maldives Centre for Social Education in Male’ with nearly 30 participants. The workshop aims to improve the management of volunteer adults, which has...
Scout Leaders from ten National Scout Organizations celebrated the World Environment Day on 5th June at Cibubur Scout Complex in Jakarta, Indonesia. They were participants of the International Seminar on Environment Education & Biodiversity, the...
Minister of Environment of the Republic of Indonesia, Prof.Dr. Gusti Muhammad Hatta, officially opened the International Seminar on Environment Education and Biodiversity at the National Scout Complex in Cibubur, Jakarta on 4th June 2011. The event...
In the National Strategic Planning Workshop from 30 April to 4 May 2011 at the National Headquarters in Suva, 25 key leaders of Fiji Scouts Association (FSA), including the council members and district commissioners, drafted their Vision 2020. The...
The CNV mission to Bhutan was held at the Centenary Youth Village in Thimphu on 28 April led by the Vice Chairman of the Regional Scout Committee Dr Mukhyuddin Sarwani with a five-member team from the Asia-Pacific Region. Bhutan Scouts Association...
It was a rare occasion in Phnom Penh in the presence of His Excellency Im Sethy, Minister of Education, Youth and Sports of Cambodia, where a group of 43 adult leaders received their Wood Badge and Gilwell scarf on 16 March 2011, marking a new...