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5th June 2012: The launching of the World Environment day was marked today amidst many of the key Scout Leaders coming from 12 National Scout Organizations (NSOs) across the Asia-Pacific Region who had gathered for the second consecutive year for the...
True to its commitment to safe Scouting, the Boy Scouts of the Philippines organized its 1st Risk and Safety Management Workshop in Davao City, Philippines from 21st to 24th February 2012, participated by 120 Scout Leaders from different parts of the...
Committed to reinforce the role of leader trainers and provide them with the latest training techniques, Gerakan Pramuka Indonesia (GPI) is co-hosting the Course for the Leader Trainers (CLT) from 24 to 30 November 2011 along with the Asia-Pacific...
Since June, 2010 NSO of Georgia has been successfully implementing the World Scout Environment Programme in the framework of the Youth Capacity Building Project at Western Route Export Pipelines (YCBP) initiated and funded by B-P. One of the core...
What would the world be like if designed by Scouts? If you could let your imagine go wild and bring a new species to life, what would it look like? How can we make a difference in our home societies so that we live in a more harmonious world for...
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...
The environment is our playground and we are sharing with the tens of thousands of international non-governmental and governmental delegates at the event how scouting has always cared for the planet, not because we had to, but rather, simply that we...
Every year the world celebrates World Environment Day (WED) on the 5th of June. This is an occasion for all scouts around the world to demonstrate their commitment to preserving the environment. This year, WED supports the UN’s International Year of...
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...
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...
Adults in Scouting: is a systematic programme of adult resources management, to improve the effectiveness, commitment and motivation of the leadership in order to produce better programmes for young people and a more effective and efficient...
Scout Association of Japan has been participating in “Challenge 25 Campaign”, the campaign against climate change promoted by the Ministry of the Environment. Scouts of all over Japan participate in various activities for reducing greenhouse gas...
The members of the World Scout Committee had chosen three themes to shape the dynamic of their 2008-2011 mandate. One of these themes was “Tell the Story”. Of course, one main element of this process is to take advantage of the new Web 2.0 medias...
NAIROBI - In its quest to strengthen the capacities of National Scout Organizations (NSOs), five participants from, Angola, Burundi, Ethiopia , Rwanda and Swaziland participated in a month long training, from 27th September to 27th October 2011 in...