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On 25 October 2012, after Hurricane Sandy hit Haiti, the Emergency Units of Scouts d’Haïti got mobilised in response to the natural disaster. In the town of Damien, north of Port au Prince, hundreds of temporary houses and shelters have been flooded...
On 26-28 October 2011, was organized the last big event of the project, part of the worldwide project " Messengers of Peace". 50 leaders from the National Scouts Association from Moldova attended this activity. The final aim was to understand the...
His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, the King of Sweden, has been actively involved in Scouting since his childhood days. In 1955 he joined as a Cub Scout with the name (totem) Mowgli and progressed to the Scout age-section in 1958. At the age of 10, as a...
The first Regional Director of the Eurasia Scout Region, Dr. Alexander Stepanovich Bondar, known as Sacha Bondar, passed away on 14 October 2012. Sacha had joined the World Scout Bureau Eurasia Region as the first Regional Director of the Region in...
The 14th World Scout Moot will take place in Canada from 8 to 18 August 2013. Preparations are underway and the hosts, Association Scouts du Canada, and its Moot organising team are gearing up in several ways to ensure that the event will be a grand...
Six Regional Office Coordinators met in Geneva along with their Messengers of Peace (MoP) colleagues at the World Scout Bureau Central Office from 9 to 11 October to gather updates from the first year of implementing various MoP initiatives and to...
According to some analysts, the Android platform currently leads the mobile phone market, accounting for approximately 60 percent of all smartphone shipments in the first half of 2012. Over half a million actual users are setting up a new Android...
Around 350 Rover Scouts from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka are camping from 17th to 21st October 2012 in Islamabad, Pakistan for the 2nd SAARC Scouts Friendship Camp hosted under the Messenger of Peace. This...
52 particiapnts from 18 countries took part in the Youth For Change workshop that took place from 14 to 16 September in Sriracha, Thailand. The workshop was part of the implementation of the Youth for Change work group. The sessions comprised of four...
The 24th APR Scout Conference Organization Committee (COC) held its 5th Preparatory Meeting at the National Headquarters in Dhaka on 14th October 2012. The COC Chairman and Vice President of Bangladesh Scouts Mr Habibul Alam welcomed the members of...
Bhutan Scout Association (BSA) reiterates its commitment to enhance Adults in Scouting as the consultancy meeting continues in Thimphu from 11th to 17th October 2012. As part of the Committee NSO Visit recommendations held last year, two areas were...
One of many activities from the project "Together in Scouting, Together for Peace", part of "Messengers of Peace" project is realized by National Scout Association of Moldova (NSAM) is "Together with parents life is better"- essays, poems and...
Twenty two members of staff from the World Scout Bureau - Central Office and the 6 Regions -joined by João Armando and Mari Nakano, members of the World Scout Committee supporting Educational Methods, met in Thailand from 12 to 16 September to...
With fun, interest and anticipation, the staff of the World Scout Bureau/Asia-Pacific Regional Office got into the world of basic digital photography as they had their annual staff development workshop from 5th to 7th October 2012 at the Cristina...