News from the Africa Scout Region www.scout.org/africa Issue No. 51, November 2016 Kudu Mail [email protected]Donations are vital in helping Scouts help others. Your contributions will go towards ensuring the sustainbality of a wide variety of programmes and projects that enable millions of young people in Africa to learn and develop skills useful for personal growth and community service. For more information on becoming a member of the Africa Scout Foundation, visit www.scout.org/africascoutfoundation or email [email protected]. INVEST IN THE FUTURE OF AFRICA: JOIN THE AFRICA SCOUT FOUNDATION Africa Scout Region Welcomes the new WOSM Secretary General Scouts and Scout Leaders from the Africa Region joined the counterparts from around the world in congratulating and welcoming, Mr. Ahmad Alhendawi, the newly appointed WOSM Secretary General. This follows his appointment by the World Scout Committee to replace Scott Teare who retired in November 2016. Mr. Alhendawi will take up this position officially from 1 March 2017 when he is expected at our WSB Global Support Centre in Kuala Lumpur, upon completing his role as the United Nations Secretary- General’s Envoy on Youth. As the Secretary General of WOSM, Mr. Alhendawi will be entrusted with the mandate of promoting and safeguarding the interests of the Scout Movement. As its Chief Executive Officer, he will also direct its Secretariat, the World Scout Bureau. “I am sure you will join the WSC in warmly welcoming Mr. Alhendawi to this new role and in wishing him all the best. Over the coming years, his success will imply the success of WOSM and I am http://eepurl.com/RlQYH SUBSCRIBE TO KUDUMAIL HERE Find us on SOCIAL MEDIA ScoutingintheAfricaRegion +AfricaScoutRegion Africa Scout Region @ScoutingAfrica Africa Scout Region certain that he will welcome all the support we will provide him,” said Joao Armando, the World Scout Committee Chairperson. “I believe that Scouting continues to hold a solution for youth development in the 21st century. I look forward to working with the WOSM team to expand the Movement and deepen its social impact, while continuing to create a better future for youth,” said Mr. Alhendawi, upon accepting the role of WOSM Secreatry General. Mr Alhendawi began his involvement in Scouting at the age of 13 when he joined the movement in Jordan. He has maintained an interest and involvement in youth support, the Scouting movement, and non-formal education throughout his career. We wish him well in his new role of leading World Scouting to new levels of success. Congratulations! Season’s Greetings
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Africa Scout Region Welcomes the new WOSM Secretary General
Scouts and Scout Leaders from the Africa Region joined the counterparts from around the world in congratulating and welcoming, Mr. Ahmad Alhendawi, the newly appointed WOSM Secretary General. This follows his appointment by the World Scout Committee to replace Scott Teare who retired in November 2016.
Mr. Alhendawi will take up this position officially from 1 March 2017 when he is expected at our WSB Global Support Centre in Kuala Lumpur, upon completing his role as the United Nations Secretary- General’s Envoy on Youth. As the Secretary General of WOSM, Mr. Alhendawi will be entrusted with the mandate of promoting and safeguarding the interests of the Scout Movement. As its Chief Executive Officer, he will also direct its Secretariat, the World Scout Bureau.
“I am sure you will join the WSC in warmly welcoming Mr. Alhendawi to this new role and in wishing him all the best. Over the coming years, his success will imply the success of WOSM and I am
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certain that he will welcome all the support we will provide him,” said Joao Armando, the World Scout Committee Chairperson.
“I believe that Scouting continues to hold a solution for youth development in the 21st century. I look forward to working with the WOSM team to expand the Movement and deepen its social impact, while continuing to create a better future for youth,” said Mr. Alhendawi, upon accepting the role of WOSM Secreatry General.
Mr Alhendawi began his involvement in Scouting at the age of 13 when he joined the movement in Jordan. He has maintained an interest and involvement in youth support, the Scouting movement, and non-formal education throughout his career.
We wish him well in his new role of leading World Scouting to new levels of success. Congratulations!
The Uganda Scouts Association Youth Brass started in late January 2015 at Baden Powell House along Buganda Road as one of the achievements towards celebrating 100 years of Scouting in Uganda. It started with a few basic wind instruments such as trumpets (4), baritone (1), tenor trombones (3), bass trombone (1), French horn (1). The percussions included side drums (4), snare drums (3), 2 pairs of cymbals, tenor drum, mini glockenspiel & a bass drum.
The band has continued to grow, and so far has 50 members. We are looking forward to laying a strong music foundation based on Scout values in the same way the Crossroads of America Scout Band has done. To uplift the music standards of the band, music experts from one of the National Brass Bands in Uganda were called upon to help the young musical Scouts.
Some of the key Scout activities in which the band has played include; Uganda Scouts National Founder’s Day celebrations in February and All Africa Scout Day celebrations in March 2015, Uganda Scouts Interna-tional Centenary Jamboree celebrations, the 7th Africa Scout Youth Forum and the 16th Africa Scout Conference in August 2015.
The band is also involved in other Scout community projects e.g. giving out of mosquito nets to the communities under the Scouts Against Malaria project, extending clean water to communities in areas with shortage of water under Water for Life project where they constructed water wells for the communities; as well as taking part in environmental activities with other organizations such as the Uganda Olympics Committee. The band plays a big role in mobilizing people and creating awareness on different issues. The Scouts band has also been equipping Scouts with skills in playing different percussion and wind instruments.
This story was first written by Emong George William, a member of the Uganda Scouts Association Youth Brass Band. Read more at http://www.venturingmag.org/Uganda.shtml
Uganda Scouts Association Youth Brass BandFrom 12 to 16 October 2016, 47 Scouts from different countries in the 6 Scout regions of the world converged at the European Youth Centre in Budapest, Hungary for the 1st International Seminar of Messengers of Peace programme. Organised by the World Bureau Global Supoort Cen-tre, the seminar focused on capacity building around the Better World framework. A revisit of the Messengers of Peace Programme, Dialogue for Peace and Cultural exchange activities took place during the seminar.
Among those who attended from the Africa Scout Region were Ronnie Atiogbe from Togo and Pauline Kagiri from Kenya.
“I was privileged to have been among the 47 youth participants from around the world who took part in this seminar. We looked at ways on how we can continue to promote peace as Scouts within our countries and beyond. The Messenger of Peace programme proposes a set of val-ues, attitudes, traditions and mode of behavior fostered by an enabling national and international environment conductive to peace. During this workshop I got more inspired by Scouts from different countries who are taking action on peace building programs and reaching out to other Scouts and community members by promoting peace and dialogue. This experience has enabled me to look wider and come up with ways I can work towards greater action for peace back in my country,” said Pauline.
Dialogue is a safe container for people to surface their assumptions and to question their previous perceptions. Guided by the Scout Law and Promise, Scouts around the world play a big role in the society today by becoming young peace ambassadors who bring positive change contrib-ute to a better world. They involve themselves to bring peace and under-standing through freedom of expression, sharing ideas, upholding human rights, and promoting global citizenship, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue. Through the Dialogue for Peace campaign, Scouts are on a mis-sion to break myths and misconceptions and to connect and build lasting relationships between the next generations.
The seminar brought together key Scouts leaders of the National Scouts Organizations from around the world to discuss and provide updates on the development of the Messenger of Peace education programme. Com-ing from different cultures Scouts where given a chance to showcase their cultures focusing on aspects such as food, clothing and music. It was a powerful way of bringing young people together to experience that we might be from different cultures but we are bounded by the universal brotherhood of Scouting.
For more information visit http://www.scout.org/node/274886. (Contributions from Ronnie Atiogbe and Pauline Kagiri.)
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Kinshasa Scout Group Celebrate its Silver Jubilee
The Scout Group of the Parish of Notre Dame de la Sagesse, located in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo began the Silver Jubilee celebrations on 13 November 2016 till the end of the year. They conducted a parade that took place right after the Mass among other activities planned to mark this achievement, under the theme “A Scout loves and protects nature” with a focus on reforestation.
To ensure young people contribute to addressing the perennial shortage of food, the Africa Scout Region initiated the Food for Life Project. Through this project, Scouts, learn skills to grow different crop varieties for domestic consumption and even for sale.
A Scout from Togo, Folli Amouzougan, is one such Scout. Together with his room-mates, they have been working for over 3 months now to grow nutritious food crops such as groundnuts, beans, corn, chili, tomato, melons and local leafy vegetables found in Togo like “ademe”, “atokou-ma” and “okra” as well as the medicinal “kinkeliba”. They are doing this mixed farming practice in just 100.28 square meter piece of land.
“Today, from our hard work and thanks to the skills we have learnt through Scouting, we have food and I’m proud. If only two-thirds of the world population began to grow nutritious food crops, fruits, vegetable and medicinal plants, life on earth would be a paradise,” said Folli. Read more: www.scout.org/node/284356
Since August 2016, a Scout Group in the Burkina Faso capital of Ouagadougou initiated a Breast Cancer Awareness project to help the community better understand and prevent breast cancer disease. This was out of the realization that many people suffer from the disease due to lack of correct and timely information. The campaign focused on highlighting the causes, signs and symptoms, consequences and treatment of the disease. Working with specialists Doctors the male and female population living in the peri urban parts of the city received specialized consultation services in the treatment of the disease.
During the whole month, they traveled through four peri-urban areas (Bassinko, Nonghin, Bissinghin, Rimkieta) of the city of Ouagadougou conducting door-to-door awareness about the disease aided by images representing the different symptoms, the stages of the evolution of Breast Cancer, the methods of identification of the cyst together with supporting explanations.
This initiative by the Scouts of Ouagadougou, has aroused anxiety and curiosity among the populations, especially the female population. Some of the people have come out and enrolled for diagnosis in order to understand their status in relation to the disease and get treatment or just for them to achieve peace of mind. The project has also demystified perceptions held by people about the disease and the shyness to talk about it. As a result of the project already one woman has reported to having gotten tested and is now on curative treatment. (Contributions from Rene Bayili)
We Have Food - thanks to Scouting Skills Scouts Promote Healthy Living through Breast Cancer Awareness
Cameroonian Scouts Spreading Peace and Love to Refugees in Central AfricaIt was a beautiful and enriching experience for Likabi Nathaniel, a Messenger of Peace from Cameroon to take part in the 71st General Assembly of the United Nation in New York. Likabi participated in four (4) major events: Social Good Summit 2016; Transforming Humanitarian Actions; Reimagining the World in 2030 and Pathways to Zero Hunger.
A most memorable event was his speech on the Social Impact, Diversity and Inclusion of Scouts working with refugees in Eastern Cameroon. In the forum at Columbia University, he was able to tell how, through community games and informal education, Scouting has worked to help nearly seven hundred (700) young Central African refugees in the camps of Boulembe and Bindia. Through sharing on the need for interreligious and intercultural dialogue, the Scouts helped their young refugees to understand the values of tolerance, forgiveness and fraternity.
The action of the Scout movement was included in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and in the promotion of an alterna-tive model of education for young people faced with the impossibility of access to the school system - which was disturbed by the pangs of the war between and the rise of the confessional divide between Christian and Muslim. (Contributions from Baskouda Shelly)
South African Scouts from the 1st Mlilo Scout Group recently supported Mlilo Primary School to construct a food garden. The school is located in a rural area where most parents are unemployed and unable to pay school fees for their children. The food garden will therefore grow vegetables to supplement the school’s feeding scheme.
The Scouts saw their school’s need and decided to undertake this project. They prepared the ground and planted the seedlings. They also showed the other school children the correct methods of planting and crop maintenance so that they can they can take care of the crops but also for them to be able to build their own garden in the future. The Scouts take turns to water and care for the garden. Read more at www.scout.org/node/288211
Taking Food for Life Project to School
Ivorian Cubs Scouts join in the Cubs100 Celebrations As part of activities marking the celebrations of the centenary of the World Cub Scouting, Ivorian Cub Scouts gathered in the town of Anya-ma, North-East of Abidjan to carry out different activities on the theme “Peace, Sustainable Development and Protection of the Best Childhood for Cub Scouting.”
The over 150 children (Scouts and non-Scouts) supported by 25 Cubs Scout Leaders, Regional and District commissioners planted 110 trees under the “Trees For The World” program with Friends from the Active Youth for Sustainability (JADD) organization. The children also expressed their vision of a Better World through artistic works such as drawings, the textile of the future, skits, dances and songs on the theme cited above. An awareness conference was held on the topic “Sustainable De-velopment Goals: Improving life everywhere,” with the view to promote the Sustainable Development Goals among children and to get them to develop a commitment for a better world.
The leaders, led by the Regional commissioner for Abidjan - Blehou Aka and the Messengers of Peace coordinator - Marie Louise Ycossie, stressed on the importance of these goals and the responsibility that Scouts have to help in their realization. The importance of volunteering and environ-mental protection on achieving good life for the people was also high-lighted. The event ended with artistic performances and the reaffirmation of the Scout promise. (Contributions from Falle Ycossie)
Candidates Bidding to Host the 42nd World Scout Conference & 14th World Scout Youth Forum, 2020
The World Scout Committee is pleased to announce that, following the previously agreed due diligence process, the NSOs of Malaysia and Egypt have been confirmed as candidates to host the 2020 World Scout Conference. The candidates will present their bids at the World Scout Conference in Baku in August 2017.
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Following the departure of Mr. Guy-Omer Banafai from the World Scout Bureau on 11 November 2016, there has been some changes in staff roles. “While we are still considering the best way to reorganize the office he held, for the time being, our colleague Mercyline Busolo (who is our Ac-countant) has graciously accepted to manage our Administration and Finance Department, in an acting capacity as Beryl Okuku looks after the accounts. With regards the role of the Desk Officer for Central Afri-ca Zone, this will now be played by Fabrice Ouattara, the Development Support & Partnerships Manager, also in an acting capacity.” Announced the Regional Director
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EVENT DATES VENUE5th World Scout Inter-Religious Symposium
27-29 Jan 2017 United States of America
West Africa Zonal Scout Conference & Youth Forum
21-27 Feb 2017 Abuja , Nigeria
Africa Scout Day Celebrations 8-11 Mar 2017 Arusha, Tanzania
2nd World Scout Education Congress
11-15 May 2017 Kandersteg International Scout Centre,Switzerland
15th World Scout Moot July 25 - 2 August 2017
Iceland
41st World Scout Conference and 13th World Scout Youth Forum
7-18 August 2017
Baku, Azerbaijan
Staff Changes at WSB Africa
Following its postponement, the 11th West Africa Zonal Scout Conference and the 7th West Africa Zonal Scout Youth Forum will now take place from 21st to 27th February 2017 in Cotonou, Benin. A new circular has been sent out to the NSOs in the zone providing further details on the same. The main events will be the Youth Forum, the Conference and the Regional Education Forum. In case you have any querries, kindly direct them to Mary ([email protected]), the Director of Operations who is also the Desk officer for West Africa Zone.
Postponement of the 11th Conference and the 7th Youth Forum of West Africa Scout Zone
The 2nd World Scout Education Congress will take place in the Kandersteg International Scout Centre, Switzerland, from 11 to 15 May 2017. This first Bulletin provides answers to questions that you may have and gives a flavour of the event, in terms of the theme and topics to be discussed, as well as the methods to be used. You can download the bulletin here https://www.scout.org/node/288821. The Congress theme is: Prepared: for a changing world!
2nd World Scout Educational Congress, Switzerland 2017, Bulletin 1
24th World Scout Jamboree 2019, Bulletin 1
Mark your calendars! From 22 July to 2 August 2019, Scouts from around the globe will gather at the Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve in West Virginia, USA, for the 24th World Scout Jamboree - a unique combination of effort hosted jointly by Scouts Canada, Asociación de Scouts de México, and the Boy Scouts of America.
The “New World News” bulletins will be released in English, French and Spanish on a regular basis, to provide detailed information to help you to prepare your participation. You can download the bulletin here https://www.scout.org/sites/de-fault/files/media-files/WSJ2019-Bulletin1_FINAL_e.pdf (English) and https://www.scout.org/sites/default/files/media-files/WSJ2019-Bulletin1_FINAL_f.pdf(French)
WOSM’s Leadership Workshop, Asia-Pacific Region
The Boy Scouts of the Philippines, in collaboration with the Asia-Pacific Support Centre, will host a Leadership Workshop from 24 to 26 February 2017. Adults who hold a role as trainers and/or in the leadership of a NSO are encouraged to participate. The deadline to register is 15 January 2017. For more information please contact [email protected] with a copy to [email protected]
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