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May 2014 Kudumail News from the Africa Scout Region www.scout.org/africa Rapid Response Initiative to recruit 1 million Inside Scouts Highlight Rapid Response Initiative to recruit 1 million Scouts Page 1 From NSOs Southern Africa Scout Leasers caucus on youth role in nation building Page 2 From ARO Rehabilitation of defective masts in public schools Forging forward with Scouting Basics ! Page 3 WSB - ARO/FILE Community Nigerian Scouts part of the Development Children’s Day Celebrations Page 4 Events 40th World Scout Conference/12th calendar World Scout Youth Forum KENYA - Scouting in Kenya started on 24th November 1910 and is the largest Youth Movement with over 500,000 Scouts and 40,000 Scout Leaders. Uganda Scout Association Centenary Celebrations The Kenya Scouts Association has developed a Rapid Response Initiative (RRI) to recruit 1 million Scouts by September 2014. The RRI which is part of the KSA 5 Year Strategic Plan 2013 – 2017 will include embarking 16th Africa Scout Conference and 7th on a mega nationwide Recruitment and Registration Drive and carry out different activities throughout the Youth Forum country to publicize Scouting. 23rd World Scout Jamboree The main Activities will include: Tree Planting – KSA in partnership with the Government and other like-minded parties aims at planting 20 Page 4 million trees as a gift of peace to the Kenyans. • Exchange Programmes – where Scouts will interchange from Counties for peace building and community Service. • Peace Marathons – Scouts will be involved in marathons for peace building and charity work, this will also be open to non-Scouts. • Peace Caravan Road Show – A peace caravan cross cutting the 10 Regions in Kenya to preach peace and register Scouts. • Community Service – this will include clean ups, blood donation drives, charity work, children homes visitations, disaster response, peace camps, youth forums, music concerts, hospital visits, helping the aged, adult literacy campaigns, road and bridge construction, first aid training, building schools and homes for the aged as well as many other projects across the country. Kenya Scouts Association has partnered with different stakeholders to help achieve this noble objective. Brand Kenya Board, Kenya Forestry Service, County Governments and National Bank are already in support of the initiative. The 20 Million trees (to be planted by 2017) will be a gift of peace to the Kenyans and is also part of the Government’s pledge of 50 Million Trees by 2017. The RRI was launched on 28th March 2014 at Kenya Scouts Association Headquarters in Rowallan Scouts Camp, Nairobi. Kudumail May 2014 FOCUS ON NSOs In his welcoming remarks, Namibia’s Chief Scout Brian Masule mentioned some of Southern African Scout leaders caucus on the social problems being experienced by young people in Namibia and elsewhere in youth role in nation building southern Africa, primarily unemployment, poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, suicide, passion killing, domestic violence, baby dumping and teenage pregnancy. He NAMIBIA - More than 70 senior Scouts and Scout leaders from around observed that the majority of cases reported relating to these issues involve the youth. southern Africa gathered in Namibia from April 29-May 2 for the 11th Southern Zone Youth Scout Youth Forum and 40th Southern Zone “This gives me the impression that our youth are idle and therefore have so much Conference, hosted by Scouts of Namibia. time and energy to think of and commit such crimes,” Mr. Masule said. “The Scout Law says that a Scout is clean in through, word and deed. Unfortunately, there seems The theme for both the forum and conference, held at Heja Lodge, was to be quite a number of youth all over who do not uphold this standard. But wouldn’t “Scouting: Contributing Towards Nation Building. it be wonderful if all our youth were clean in thought word and deed?” Masule added that Scouting has the potential to make a significant contribution towards combating the problems facing young Africans and thereby enhance the nation-building process. Scouts of Namibia ARE ready to form a partnership with the Namibian Government in this regard, he said. Also in attendance at the conference was Mr. Frederick Kama-Kama, director of the World Scout Bureau’s Africa Region office in Nairobi, Kenya. Mr. Kama-Kama praised the southern African Scout associations for consistently holding zonal conferences and youth forums, and noted that the theme of the Namibia-hosted conference, “Scouting: Contributing Towards Nation-Building,” resonated well with the last words of Scouting’s Founder Lord Robert Baden-Powell: ‘Let us leave this world better than we found it.’” Kama-Kama further reminded delegates their NSOs need to implement programmes, including governance and management systems that foster personal integrity and social cohesion. Key recommendations arising from conference discussions included youth Delegates from the national Scout organizations of Angola, Botswana, empowerment, greater involvement of Scouts in community projects, and the Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe reported on activities and undertaking of benchmarking audits to improve the levels of governance and achievements over the past year and deliberated on issues and challenges management at national Scout organisations in the region. faced by youth in the region. The NSOs of Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia were unable to send delegations due to various Special guests at constraints. the conference included Mr. Keynote speaker for the conference was Mr. Patrick Haingura, Deputy Nico Kaiyamo, Director: Directorate of Youth, Ministry of Youth, National Service, Sport former member and Culture. Mr. Haingura spoke about the vital role played by youth in of Parliament the nation-building process and pointed out that nations depend heavily on and past the ability of youth to mentally and physically prepare themselves for president of becoming trustworthy, reliable and contributing citizens and future leaders. Scouts of Namibia; Mr. “The role of youth in nation building is to perceive and enhance the skills Chris Mbanga, needed to develop and promote the betterment of the country so that it Chief Scout of becomes a place where all citizens, young and old, are informed about and the Zimbabwe engaged in all major issues that affect their lives, a place where adults and Scout young people are together at the table debating, grappling with problems, Association and former vice chairperson of the Africa Scout Committee; Mr. crafting solutions and jointly deciding on how resources should be Winston Adams, retired director of the Cape Town Operations Centre of the World allocated, a robust democracy where all people, including youth, exercise Scout Bureau’s Africa Scout Region who once served a stint as acting regional their right to select those who should speak and act on their behalf and director; and Mr. Frank van Rooyen, current president of Scouts of Namibia. hold them accountable, a land where young people have an equal opportunity to have a sustainable livelihood,” Haingura said. Prior to the conference a two-day Youth Forum was conducted at which youth delegates from the participating Scout associations delved into such matters as “Imagine adults and young people working together to build a thriving a personal values and ethics, community service and development, entrepreneurship, society from the ground up, contributing their knowledge, skills and social media, and the pros and cons of digital technology. Mr. Patrick Sam of the resources to nation building,” Haingura said. “In Scouting this is a reality; Namibia Institute for Democracy delivered the keynote speech for the forum. in other spheres of influence it is largely myth. Actually, Scouting is able to harness the power behind the potential of youth as nation builders. That Both the conference power is service – service to self, service to others, service to country. My and the youth ministry believes that these three principles of service that guide Scouts and forum were Scout leaders all around the world can play a significant role in building supported enlightened, prosperous and compassionate nations.” financially and in- kind by the The deputy director paid tribute to Scouting’s many contributions to the National Youth development of local and national communities throughout Africa, noting Council, the that the former Organization of African Unity resolved in 1963 to Ministry of Youth, recognize March 13 every year as Africa Scout Day, an honour that National Service, continues to be observed by the OAU’s successor, the African Union. Sport and Culture, and Bank Windhoek. 2 © 2014 World Scout Bureau – Africa Regional Office Kudumail May 2014 FROM THE REGIONAL OFFICE Forging Forward with Scouting Basics Rehabilitation of defective masts in public schools! NIGERIA - As part of Nigeria National Scout Organization efforts of developing the Leadership Competencies of our Scouts, Venture and Explorer Scouts, the COTE D’IVOIRE - Scouts in Abidjan are committed to changing their South-East Zone of the Association organized a General Information Course hosted by the Enugu State Scout Council at Nsukka with no fewer than 25 Scouts communities as part of the Messengers of Peace project. In line with the (Candidates) in attendance. project, the Scouts went to various public schools in the city to repair and replace damaged flag masts and as a lesson to young people on good citizenship. The Objective of the Course was to train Scouts on Basic Scouting Fundamentals in preparations for Basic, Advance and other Leadership Courses. Candidates were divided into Four Patrols with the objective of identifying their Patrols with The mast is considered as a symbol of education, cohesion and gathering. Native names namely: Tiger as Agu Patrol, Kite as Egbe Patrol, Lion as Odum Rover Scouts of Mahatma Gandhi community repaired and replaced three Patrol and Eagle as Ugo Patrol. masts in schools in the districts of Abata, N'Gnanda and Gbaba (Bingerville) and offered several National flags to the managers of these schools.