Refugees

Guy-Omer Bansadja Banafai left the World Scout Bureau on 11 November 2016 to take up a new job with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Guy joined the WSB Africa in May 2007 as an Administration and Finance Manager. He rose to the...

Scouts and Guides contributing to refugee support activities in their local communities in Europe (28): a training course offered by IICoS in France Nadine Lyamouri-Bajja, from IICoS and one of the workshop facilitators at the upcoming...

Scouts and Guides contributing to refugee support activities in their local communities in Europe (23): a story from Xanten, Germany Last month, an unused building the city of Xanten, in Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany, had decided to open for...

When the Coordinating Group of the European Regions of WAGGGS and WOSM met the other weekend, the current situation of refugees and the manifold support actions by Scouts and Guides as members of their local communities was one of the issues...

United Kingdom – Members of a Scout group from Coxhoe, a village in Durham County, are stunned that their simple act of kindness has garnered the kindness and generosity of the local community. All they did was organise a call for contributions in...

In view of the current refugee situation in Europe, the European Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) has issued the following message about the current refugee situation to National Scout Organisations and National...

It was my immense pleasure to visit the Lebanese Messengers of Peace project ‘Rebirth of the Phoenix’ to support Syrian Refugees in the country. National leaders in Lebanon joined a visiting World Scouting team to praise Scouts in Lebanon for their...

The first Scout of the World Discovery took place at St. Andrew Scout Centre in Athens on the 13-15 November 2009 and was organized by the Scouts of Greece (Soma Hellinon Proskopon). Thirteen (13) young leaders and members of Scout Networks from all...