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A BackStage Story by the Scout Donation Platform Safidy is a young man tackling one of Madagascar’s biggest taboos – menstrual hygiene. It hasn’t been easy for him to talk about the subject openly, especially as the young Scout is breaking a taboo by...
The UK Scout Association has launched its strategy for growth over the next five years, with the aim of equipping young people with the skills they need for life, and adding 50,000 more young people to its membership. Skills for Life – details the...
Staff members of the Asia-Pacific Support Centre are fully geared to take on disaster preparedness and risk reduction management at their recent training along the coastlines of Romblon Province, Philippines. Regional Director J Rizal Pangilinan and...
The Haitian National Civil Protection Agency (DPC), one of the many stakeholders collaborating with the Scouts of Haiti, has reported that 1.4 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. More than 120,000 families have lost their...
Today we reached a landmark. Over 700 million hours of service to community have now been recorded through almost 21,500 projects on scout.org! This is an outstanding achievement in the 3 years since we started inviting Scouts to share their...
Experts from 18 National Scout Organizations (NSOs) recently participated in a workshop on disaster mitigation, preparedness and response in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Held from 9 to 11 October 2016, the workshop was organised by the World Organization of...
10 November 2015, Nairobi, Kenya: The 7th African University on Youth and Development kicked-off on 9th November at the Sportsview Hotel Kasarani in Nairobi Kenya. The week long event brings together over 100 young people form Africa and Europe for...
“Dialogue doesn’t have the pressure (of having) to solve a problem. It is (about) the willingness to learn from another person or party. It is part of conflict resolution and peacebuilding,” said Anas Alabbadi, Programmes Officer and trainer with the...
Within 24 hours of its launch, World Scouting’s #ScoutAid for #Nepal fund has received individual donations amounting to some US$28,000. The Messengers of Peace Support Fund will issue an emergency grant of US$10,000 as add-on to the collection...
What makes Scouting fun? Not so long ago, we used printed maps to find our way and depended on charts to identify stars and constellations. And, did you also carry all those birds, trees and survival guides in your backpack? Must have been quite a...