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The thirteenth of October is UN International Day for Disaster Reduction. Its theme for this year is “Making Children and Young People Partners for Disaster Risk Reduction”. From its inception, Scouting around the world has engaged itself in helping...
2011 will mark the celebration of the fourth-year of Alliance Jointly with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Clean Up the World (CUW) and the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). The campaign runs for a calendar year and...
After several days of suspense we finally have the results of the JOTA JOTI logo competition in which almost 120 scouts from all over the world partipated. The theme for this year's event is "Peace, Environment and Natural Disasters" and the proposed...
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...
The World Organization of the Scout Movement is hosting a contest to design the Logo of this year’s edition of the Jamboree-On-The-Air and Jamboree-On-The-Internet (JOTA - JOTI) Scouts around the world are invited to submit their design. This logo...
NAIROBI - The Africa Regional Office facilitated Scouts' participation in this year's JOTI whose theme revolved around : ”Peace, Environment and Natural Disasters". In addition to participation from various countries, the Regional headquarters also...
Food for Life Project (FFL) was recently extended to West Africa (Benin and Niger), following its successes in the East Africa (Burundi, Kenya and Uganda). The dual launch started in Niger on 6th May and continued to Benin on 9th May. The Benin...
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...
Like many Angolans, Pedro Fernandez, a 26-year-old Scout, oozes an aura of patience and stoicism. His buoyant demeanour can almost make you forget that when he was born, a deadly civil war had engulfed his country. Worse still, when he was 3-years...
The Arab Scout Regional group for Emergency and Rescue responded on the spot to the influx of thousands of refugees and returnees from Libya as a result of the recent strive and evolution. 34 ArRO staff and scout volunteers spent 3 days in Alsaloum...
Despite the current circumstances in Kabul, Afghanistan and its surrounding areas, efforts are being made from different sources to advance Scouting even to other provinces. From 9 to 15 November, 31 participants with six female members coming from...
Once again Scouting in Afghanistan witnesses a series of activities in Kabul, one of them is the Basic Unit Leaders Training course with 26 participants for both male and female members coming from Kabul and Jalalabad. The Asia Pacific Regional...
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...
Scouts Australia has been named as the winner of the 2010 savewater! Awards Community Groups section, for the ‘100 Year Water Tank Project.’ The award was accepted by National Chairman David Jones, at a gala awards ceremony in Sydney late last year...
Scouting activity is continuously increasing in different parts of Vanuatu with much help from Scouts Australia. In mid August last year, the Scout Association of Vanuatu (SAV) welcomed the Australian Youth Ambassador for Development for the six...