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Over the last seven years, Scouting has been providing life changing opportunities, hope and a sense of belonging to thousands of children and young people at the Dadaab refugee Camp in Garissa County, Kenya. The Scouting for Refugees programme run...

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For the world El Salvador is known for its daily problems of crime and high daily mortality rate. The difficult conditions of the country after a series of earthquakes in 2001 were the justification for extending the state of temporary protection to...

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Scouts together with Girl Guides, University Students and Junior Achievement Club joined UN- Environment and the Clean Seas Campaign to share their progress on the implementation of the Plastic Tide Turners Challenge Badge programme since the launch...

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June 8, 2019 – For World Ocean’s Day, World Scouting is teaming up with UN Environment to create a new movement for action in the battle against plastic pollution. Already, some 27,000 Scouts, Guides and university students have undertaken a new...

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On June 2nd, in the Metropolitan Park Guangüiltagua, north of the capital, Scouts Ecuador together with representatives of the UN Environment, shared a spectacular message with more than 200 Scouts, among beneficiaries and leaders of the city of...

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The Scout Donation Platform is challenging all Scouts working on a project for any of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and seeking funding. World Scouting is launching a worldwide competition as part of the larger Scouts #MakeItHappen digital...

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The Steering Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) visited Jordan, Israel and Palestine during 10-19 May 2019 to promote WOSM’s Vision 2023 and provide impetus for advancing growth plans for Scouting in the region. Through...

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Nearly 100 Rovers and Scouts banded together in the early morning of May 1 to clean up a garbage-filled back street in downtown Yangoon. A civil society group, Clean Yangoon, spearheaded the activity in partnership with Myanmar Scouts and the Yangoon...

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Over 8,000 Cubs from Sri Lanka, Maldives and India gathered for the 12 th National Cubboree of the Sri Lanka Scout Association held on 6-8 April 2019 in Siyane National College of Education, Veyangoda, Gampha District. The Cubboree is Sri Lanka’s...

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It was a buzz of activities at the Monrovia Vocational Training Centre (MVTC) from 28 th March to 4 th April 2019 with a series of activities targeting different Scout Leaders from Liberia Scouts Association within the framework of capacity...

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Nairobi , 23 February 2019 – The African regions of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM Africa) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF Africa) are strengthening their collaboration to stimulate and empower young people to become...

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UN Environment held the first cohort of the Trainers of Trainers (ToT) workshop under the Plastic Challenge Badge programme in collaboration with the UK Government.

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Over the last weekend (9-10 February 2019) in Oltarzew near Warsaw, Poland , special task force of ZHP (Polish Scouting and Guiding Association) volunteers held a meeting to make progress in their endeavour on the way to review and update the...

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Botswana Scouts Association has embarked on a process of expanding Scouting in schools and registering new Scouts to meet its growth target commitments. 11 February 2019 saw the welcoming of over 400 new Scouts at Believers Destiny Academy in...

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Victone Onyango, District Scout Commissioner in Kenya, created the project My Talent My Voice to provide youth with accurate health information and to increase access to health services in his community. In order to formalize their work and deepen...

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