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Greetings from COP22 - WOSM Youth Delegates Saleh, Quintin and Samuel. The second week of COP22 went so fast! We worked hard to promote Scouts' view on environmental issues, met a lot of people, had new experiences and also some fun. While Quintin...
The large hall of the Podgorica Culture and Art Centre was not big enough for the hundreds of Scouts and other guests who had travelled from all over the country and beyond to Montenegro’s capital city earlier this month to celebrate the first sixty...
In the framework of their annual project the Ventures of the Lyon Croix-Rousse Scout & Guide Group of the Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs de France (EEdF) decided to pass their autumn camp at the Tirol International Scout & Guide Centre near Innsbruck in...
It is our absolute pleasure to announce the appointment of our Mr Ahmad Alhendawi as the next Secretary General of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM). Mr Ahmad Alhendawi will start in March of 2017 after completing his term as the...
Tanzania Scouts Association will from 8-11 March 2017 host the All Africa Scout Day celebrations in Arusha, Tanzania. Arrivals and departures will be on 8th and 11th March, respectively. All participants will pay a participation fee of sixty-five...
U-Report is a social messaging tool allowing anyone from any community, anywhere in the world to respond to polls, report issues, support child rights and work as positive agents of change on behalf of people in their country. You can become a U...
Immerse yourself in the amazing week the WOSM delegation experienced at COP22! The first week at COP22 was a whirlwind filled with a lot of hard work, new experiences and endless opportunity. Putting our focus on education and youth participation we...
Being a Scout or Girl Guide helps to lower the risk of mental illness later in life, according to researchers from Edinburgh and Glasgow universities. From their study of 10,000 people from across the United Kingdom who were born in 1958, they...
To celebrate 75 years since the official founding of Air Scouts in the United Kingdom (UK), a celebratory National Air Scout Camp was held in late October in Cornwall in the southwest of England. Although only founded in 1941, Scouts – in Britain and...
A Delegation of six Scouts will represent WOSM at the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to the UNFCCC, from 7-18 November 2016, Marrakech, Morocco. So Scouting will have a strong voice during the United Nations Conference on...
[THE ACADEMY 2016] Today, Scouts and Guides from across Europe are traveling to Larnaka in Cyprus, where they will be attending The Academy 2016, the main training, sharing and networking event of the European Regions of the World Organization of the...
The 1st of November was proclaimed and instituted as The Africa Youth Day on the occasion of the African Youth Charter adoption in the Executive Council Decision of the Banjul Summit 2006. Africa Youth Day is a day set aside every year to promote the...
This picture was taken a year ago on the island of Lesvos in Greece. Together with the following text it was published by journalist and local Scout Leader Stratis Balaskas on the website of the Greek news agency he works for. A year later, the...
Scouting has begun development of a fantastic new tool to help Scouts everywhere to fund projects! It is an online social funding platform that will make it easy to engage an existing donor base or reach out to new donors around the world. This new...
The World Scout Bureau welcomes Dong-Wook Lee, the new Global Director of Communications and External Relations. Dong-Wook holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, as well as a...