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The Jamboree’s amateur radio station SJ22S has been in contact with 107 different countries around the world, spreading the Jamboree atmosphere to Scouts and others anywhere around the globe. Several hundred participants and IST have already enjoyed...

Megan is jovial and a good storyteller. Her jamboree ID reads, Megan Lo Wing Shan, from Hong Kong. Although work at the kitchen – where she volunteers – can be frantic, no panic is her maxim. Back at home in Hong Kong, Megan works as a Chinese...

The World Scout Centre at the 22nd World Scout Jamboree in Sweden is a buzz of activity. It is the place where World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), its National Scout Organizations and key partners showcase their current work, recent...

Promotion of the SCENES network is running full speed at the Jamboree in Sweden. We are only half way through the camp and already more than a thousand scouts have stopped by and tried our different activities. We are making a different activity...

It’s official. All the food garbage from the 22nd World Scout Jamboree can produce enough gas to drive a car nine times around the world! In 1519 when Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano undertook to circumnavigate the world, it was a...

Discover what the 22nd World Scout Jamboree looks like from above. This picture was taken from a helicopter on 29th July and published full page in Kristianstad newspaper on the 30th. It shows the campsite partially although the "Spring" town, the...

RINKABY, 28 July 2011 – The 22nd World Scout Jamboree has officially started in front of more than 39,000 participants of all ages, making it the largest World Scout Jamboree ever held. The opening ceremony started at 21:00 with a colouful roll call...

Every four years, tens of thousands of Scouts from every corner of the world, gather in a tented city for the adventure of a lifetime. This is a fantastic event where Scouts live and learn together. This is an amazing and unique first-hand experience...

Scouts are agents of peace locally, nationally and internationally, crafting and implementing projects that generate positive impact on their communities. After the introduction of the Messengers of Peace Projects by the World Scout Foundation, three...

April 16, 2011, all volunteers from Republic of Moldova had been involved in the biggest social action done in the last years in our country. “Hai Moldova” had been initiated and implemented on the basis of “Let’s do it” project, which took place in...

Today, the 5th of January 2011, the new Youth Advisors of the World Scout Committee 2011-2014 have been elected: Ms. Sarah Rita Kattan, Lebanon Ms. Doina Postica, Moldova Mr. Felipe de Paulo, Brazil Mr. Esben Holager, Denmark Mr. Muath Zmaili, Jordan...

Monday January 3rd 2011, will mark the beginning of the World Organization of the Scout Movement’s 11th World Scout Youth Forum. Taking place in Blumenau, Brazil from the 3rd – 6th of January this is one of the very first world Scout events of the...

On the weekend of 30 April – 01 May 2011, the ICMYO Task Force met at the World Scout Bureau in Geneva, Switzerland. The members of the Task Force are a group of organisations of ICMYO who volunteer their efforts in service to ICMYO to plan the...

South African Scouts mobilised quickly to support over two hundred fire-fighters and conservation staff during this weekend’s devastating wild fires on the Helderberg mountain that saw eleven houses and a hotel burned to the ground. Scouts, adult...

From the 25th-27th March, the new World Scout Committee met for the first time , since six new members (out of the twelve voting members) were elected during the World Scout Conference in Brazil. The meeting was the opportunity for the new members to...