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The United Nations (UN) Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth, Ahmad Alhendawi, honoured the Scouts with a two-day visit to the 23rd World Scout Jamboree in Kirara-hama, Yamaguchi, Japan. The UN is an important partner of the global Scout Movement, mainly due to shared goals and continuous efforts…

“Dialogue is a peace process and the Scout Movement is based on dialogue. A major tool of your communication is dialogue and what you are doing is building bridges,” said the Secretary General of the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue …

The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) and The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Centre today launched the World Scouting – UNESCO World Heritage Recognition initiative at the 23rd World Scout Jamboree here. The initiative aims…

The Scout Association of Mexico has announced a new date for the 13th Panamerican Scout Jamboree, which will now be held from 10 to 18 July 2010 in Toluca, Mexico. In view of this new date, the selection process for the environment projects competition has been resumed, and the winning Patrol or…

On the occasion of the 2007 Scout Association of Japan's (SAJ) Annual Meeting, the Reception to Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the World Scouting took place at Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan on 26 May 2007, with more than 530 leaders attending the event. It was great honour for SAJ to…

KENYA - My name is Paul Mwangi Mwaniki. I was born in 1987 in Shauri, in the Embu District of Kenya. I am the youngest of a family of four. My late mother, Dorcas Wakina, raised us thanks to the money she earned with beer illicit sales. We lived in harsh conditions. My mother wasn't able to take us…

The 55th Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) and 16th Jamboree On The Internet (JOTI) was held during the weekend of 20 and 21 October 2012. About 1 million Scouts from 150 countries took part in the event, a participation number that has been stable for many years now. However, fast improving…

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 friendship camp hosted by the Pakistan Boy Scouts…

The 54th Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) and the 15th Jamboree On The Internet (JOTI) are taking place 15th and 16th October this year. These are two very special days when Scouts and Guides across the world can talk to each other from an Amateur Radio Station and/or using Internet…

The Vice President of the Government of Maldives Dr. Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik has called upon Scouts to be active and to be more aware of global danger of climate change, environment and drug abuse as challenges for today’s youth. He made the remarks in his opening address at the APR Workshop…

Located in a small valley in the Swiss Alps, altitude of 1 200 meters and only 65 kilometers south of Berne, is the Kandersteg International Scout Center (Kisc), also known as the permanent Mini- Jamboree. For a while Baden Powell dreamed of a place like this, where young people from all over the…