REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC World Organization of the Scout Movement Arab Support Office Arab Scout Orgnization October 2020
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Contents of this report are Compiled Through The Effort Of The Communications Department And Com- missioners in the Arab Scout Organizations and the Arab Scout Committees (Media and Communication Sub-committee) (Community Development Sub-com- mittee).
1 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Introduction
In the past several months, the world has witnessed the emergence and spread of a global pandemic that threatened humanity around the world and affected the way we live, work and interact.
At such times, the true nature of scouting appears with the true application of the scout promise ‘and help others in all conditions’, and ‘duty towards others’. Scouts in the Arab region in coordination with national authorities have taken upon themselves to server their communities through large scale coordinated efforts and initiatives that affected their communities and countries.
Efforts included raising awareness about the disease and its precautions, sterilizing and sanitization campaigns, supporting people in need and caring for elders among other activities.
These efforts have also demonstrated a role model in volunteering that really manifests the scout movement as the most prominent youth movement and made us all proud of our affiliation to scouting.
Achievements mentioned in this report are a sample of what the Arab Scouts have done and still are doing during this period. Their efforts have amounted to over six million serving over 11 million beneficiaries.
It is worth mentioning that these efforts not only served the community but also the future generation through its contributions towards 13 sustainable development goals
I would like to take this opportunity to applaud the efforts of the scouts and the Arab Scout Organizations for this tremendous and effective effort that will be forever remembered in the history of scouting.
Best regards,
Amr Hamdy Regional Director
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 2 Table of Contents
Efforts of Arab Scout Organizations in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during 5 confronting Covid-19 Pandemic
THE JORDANIAN ASSOCIATION FOR BOY SCOUTS 7 AND GIRL GUIDES
EMIRATES SCOUT ASSOCIATION 11 15 BOY SCOUTS OF BAHRAIN
23 SCOUTS MUSULMANS ALGÉRIENS
27 SAUDI ARABIAN BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION
SUDAN SCOUTS ASSOCIATION 31
SCOUTS OF SYRIA 35 39 IRAQ SCOUT ASSOCIATION
THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR SCOUTS43 AND GUIDES - OMAN
47 PALESTINIAN SCOUT ASSOCIATION
3 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 51 QATAR BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION
55 KUWAIT BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION
57 LEBANESE SCOUTING FEDERATION
61 BOY SCOUTS AND GIRL GUIDES OF LIBYA
65 EGYPTIAN SCOUT FEDERATION
69 Fédération Nationale du Scoutisme Marocain
ASSOCIATION DES SCOUTS ET GUIDES DE 73 MAURITANIE
77 YEMEN SCOUT ASSOCIATION
81 Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
Thanks to the Arab Scout Doctors 83
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDG’S)
DURING CONFRONTING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
In 2015, all UN member states adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Development Goals, as a global call to act to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are complementary that is, they recognize that action in one area will affect outcomes in others, and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability, by pledging to leave no one behind. Countries have committed to accelerate progress for those who are still in the back. Everyone needs to reach these ambitious goals. Creativity, knowledge, technology and financial resources from all of society is essential to achieving the SDGs in every context. This report highlights the scouts contribution toward achieving the SDGs representing 19 national scout organisation in the Arab Region, through community actions responding to the COVID 19 pandemic in 2020
5 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Together to Volunteer… Together to Build a Nation’s Civilization
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 6 THE JORDANIAN ASSOCIATION FOR BOY SCOUTS AND GIRL GUIDES
Overview: The first scout troop was established in Tajhiz Al Salt school in 1924. Scouting was officially founded in Jordan pursuant to the Cabinet’s decree in 1955 and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) during the World Scout Conference held in 1955. Guiding started in 1938 and recognized by the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) in 1963. In 1987, Youth Law was issued and the Jordanian Association for Boy Scouts and Girl Guides was established.
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 7 Based on the role of THE Jordanian Association For Boy Scouts And Girl Guides in educating its members During Ideas and the local community by providing them with the necessary knowledge, skills and culture, as well as facilitating ways to exchange experiences between them and their peers in the world, in the field of health awareness and education, the Jordanian Association for Boy Scouts and Girl Guides held a series of electronic campaigns and events for different ages since the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic. These campaigns focused mainly on the importance on preserving good health and maintaining new health habits, in addition to implementing training programs to qualify scout and guide leaders. Members of the Jordanian Association for Boy Scouts and Girl Guides participated in several initiatives of organizing places of worship, distributing charitable and health aid, sterilizing and awareness campaigns in cooperation with relevant bodies and entities. These efforts highlight the role of scouting and guiding in community development.
Home Staying
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 8 THE JORDANIAN ASSOCIATION FOR BOY SCOUTS AND GIRL GUIDES
No. of Activity No. of activities volunteers Organizing 80 online home jamborees for
Remote home jamborees and awareness of Covid-19 pandemic and ways 800 of fighting the novel Coronavirus, with the activities participation of scout and guiding groups and 360 hours of volunteering. Implementing 2,400 online interactive competitions (participants provide awareness Remote interactive events 800 messages online about risks and preventive ways of Covid-19 pandemic) with 4,800 hours of volunteering. Distributing 7,000 publications (i.e. bulletins and awareness posters on social media Publications on social platforms 500 websites) to raise the awareness of society about risks of Covid-19.
Sterilizing 350 buildings including mosques, Sterilizing mosques, churches churches and scouting and guiding premises, and scouting and guiding 500 with the participation of 7,000 scouts and premises. guides in 15,000 hours of volunteering.
Humanitarian aid (charity Distributing more than 10,000 meals for free assistance and bread 350 to poor families in 12 governorates and 42 distribution) districts, with 1,050 hours of volunteering. Contribution of scout leaders to distributing Contributing to distributing pharmaceuticals and medical supplies for medical assistance and 300 2,000 patients during their quarantine in 42 pharmaceuticals governorates and districts, with 900 hours of volunteering.
Media attachments (publications – photos- videos) are available at the following link: bit.ly/JoScoutcampaign
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 9 THE JORDANIAN ASSOCIATION FOR BOY SCOUTS AND GIRL GUIDES
“Your commitment to quarantine and being at home will save you and others from the outbreak of Covid - 19”
Partners • National Center for Security & Crises Statistics Management - Hashemite Kingdom • No. of activities: 2,914 of Jordan • No. of volunteers: 3,250 • Ministry of Education - Jordan • Total hours of volunteering: • Ministry of Youth - Jordan • Ministry of Awqaf, Islamic Affairs 22,110 and Holy Places - Jordan • Total number of beneficiaries: • Ministry of Health – Jordan 137,000 • Armed Forces of Jordan • Ministry of Interior – Jordan • Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO).
Sustainable Development Goals Achieved by Activities
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 10 EMIRATES SCOUT ASSOCIATION
Overview
Scouting was previously founded in several of the individual emirates in 1954. The Supreme Council of Scouting in Emirates was officially declared in 1972, pursuant to a decree of the Ministry of Youth and Sports. Emirates Scout Association was recognized at the Arab level in 1972 and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1977.
11 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC • Number of activities and events 4. Encouraging holding scout meetings online.
14 activities. 5. Implementing “We are committed to our homeland” initiative by scout members for • Activities and preventive measures the purpose of increasing awareness of to combat the outbreak of Covid-19 preventive measures to reduce the spread of pandemic: Covid-19 and posting them on social media means.
1. Issuing an administrative order No. (1) for 6. Designing posters for raising awareness in 2020 dated 15 March 2020, suspending all cooperation with the Ministry of Health about scout activities in Emirates Scout Association preventive measures to avoid infection with and the affiliated scout commissions as well Covid-19. as suspending meetings of scout committees, and arranging for holding alternate remote 7. Launching “Stay-at-home” campaign to scout activities. highlight the importance of being at home in the fight of the novel Covid-19. 2. Forming the disaster recovery (DR) team at Emirates Scout Association to respond to 8. Sterilizing scout commissions to maintain the repercussions of the novel Covid-19 and safety of all members. adopting preventive plans to minimize the spread of Covid-19.
3. Applying the entire preventive measures issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) and contained in the circulars received from the World Scout Bureau (WSB) and the Arab Scout Region in all scout commissions.
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9.Holding online training courses and workshops 13. Participation of volunteer leaders in for scouts and leaders to raise awareness of distributing 10,000,000 meals to workers and risks of Covid-19 pandemic. the most vulnerable categories affected by Covid-19.
10. Participating effectively in the JOTI - Special Edition, the Scout Jamboree on the Internet, 3-5 April 2020. 14. Holding Zayed Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation’s Ramadan Evening online to deepen the concept of social distance to curtail 11. Taking part in the national volunteering the spread of Covid-19 pandemic. campaign in cooperation with the Ministry of Community Development and the National Volunteering Platform by notifying the same with the names of volunteers to distribute them to places of need to combat Covid-19.
12. Distributing of facemasks, protection and sterilization tools to workers in collaboration with relevant bodies.
13 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC EMIRATES SCOUT ASSOCIATION
No. of volunteers: 100 Total hours of volunteering: 18,000 Total number of beneficiaries: Large number of workers and the most vulnerable categories affected by Covid -19 .
Sustainable Development Goals Achieved by Activities
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 14 BOY SCOUTS OF BAHRAIN
Overview
Scouting began in the Kingdom of Bahrain in 1927 and the official decree establishing the Boy Scouts of Bahrain was issued in 1968. The Boy Scouts of Bahrain became a member of the Arab Scout Region in 1970 and obtained full membership at the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1971.
15 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Activities to combat the • Registering more than 200 scouts and outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic leaders in the national e-Volunteer platform.
• Organizing 4 awareness campaigns for • Participating in the national campaign employees of the Ministry of Education to organized by the Supreme Council for reduce the spread of the novel Covid-19. Woman under the slogan “together for the safety of Bahrain” to support woman and • Organizing 4 campaigns for sterilizing the Bahraini families and cater for their needs, buildings of the Ministry of Education. in direct cooperation and coordination with the e-Volunteer platform. • Presenting instructions and guidelines by scouts and leaders via video Messages • Holding virtual (online) meetings for the produced in both Arabic and English and Boy Scouts of Bahrain, to review recent uploaded on social media platforms to developments in the fight of Covid-19 reduce the spread of the novel Covid-19. pandemic and adopting scout initiatives to combat this global challenge. • Presenting instructions and guidelines via video Messages produced in sign language • Discussing matters relating to virtual and uploaded on social media platforms to digital scout lessons to be directed to scout reduce the spread of the novel Covid-19. members in the coming period.
• Producing training and education scout films (e-learning) and uploading them on Boy Scouts of Bahrain channel on YouTube.
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No.of volunteers:
200 scout and guide leaders Total hours of volunteering:
250 Hour Total number of beneficiaries: 4,500 Partners • National e-Volunteer Platform • Supreme Council for Woman
• Ministry of Education
Sustainable Development Goals Achieved by Activities
17 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC BOY SCOUTS OF BAHRAIN
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 18 LES SCOUTS TUNISIENS
Overview Les Scouts Tunisiens (The Tunisian Scouts) is the national Scouting organization of Tunisia. The establishment of the Tunisian Scouts is dated backed to 1916, when the French brought Scouting to the country for children of French military and other citizens, until the Tunisian Muslim Scout Association emerged in 1933. During the period 1938-1936, a number of Tunisian scout associations were established including Scout Star Association, Scout Crescent Association, Scouts of Tunisia and Scouts of the Green Tunisia…etc. After independence of Tunisia, representatives of four scout associations, namely Islamic Tunisian Scouts, the Scout of Tunis, the Islamic Scout Federation and Al Raja Scouts, held a meeting in 1956 and decided to gather their efforts in one single association named Les Scouts Tunisiens (The Tunisian Scouts). Les Scouts Tunisiens became a member of the Arab Scout Organization and the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1956 and 1957, respectively.
19 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Since the outset of the fight against the outbreak • Holding coordination meetings with relevant of Covid-19 pandemic, the Tunisian Scouts ministries and partners of the Tunisian Scouts announced its full participation in the relevant to align efforts and review the plan of the efforts placing its entire logistics and human Tunisian Scouts, being a reference to all potentials at the disposal of the Tunisian state. contributions. Key contributions included the following:
• Forming a crisis-management national group (consisting of 24 teams with specific tasks covering all districts) and facilitating volunteering procedures in coordination with the relevant ministries as well as national and international organizations.
• Determining deployment map of leaders, rovers and guides as per the national and local logistics capacities of the Tunisian Scouts.
• Preparing an intervention national plan, based on the scenarios of severity of health status in the country.
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Activities and intervention • Organizing citizens in front of the post offices, To receive the financial assistance provided efforts by the state to the needy in coordination with the Tunisian Post which helped in training of • Preparing groups of volunteers for raising- volunteers on how to guide citizens, verification awareness campaigns of the necessity of of required documents and how to organize following public health rules and complying with queues; a procedure guide was prepared and preventive measures, such as social distance, distributed to all structures of the Tunisian hand-washing, use of hand sanitizers and Scouts. sterilizing houses. • Organizing blood donation campaign among • Training volunteers in guiding and queuing scouts to maximize the strategic stock of blood shoppers entering into stores and commercial after the announcement of the near run-out of shops as well as public utilities by maintaining the stock, through coordination between the social distance, sterilizing hands and avoiding Tunisian Scouts and the National Centre for congestion inside stores and shops. Blood Transfusion; this campaign received a great response among citizens so they flocked • Carrying out sterilization and sanitization of to blood donation centers in large numbers. public institutions and streets, using sanitizers, especially in places frequented visited by • Supporting hospitals with equipment and citizens; the government has trained teams of human resources to help doctors and nurses volunteers to do this mission. to perform their duties efficiently by guiding citizens in front of hospital gates and carrying • Increasing awareness about the necessity of out administrative tasks. commitment to the comprehensive quarantine when announced by the Ministry of Health as • Organizing citizens within the public transport the only solution to combat the outbreak of stations in collaboration with the Ministry of Covid-19. The Tunisian Scouts achieved success Transport, through reducing the number of through their media campaigns and by allocating passengers in the bus, metro, and distribute teams of volunteers and training them to carry facemasks to passengers and direct and out this task along with ensuring their safety. guide them to take prevention and protection procedures. • Purchasing daily requirements for the elderly, people with chronic diseases and persons with • Manufacturing and distributing multiuse masks special needs who are unable to go out, where to volunteers, security men, cleaning engineers Tunisian Scout allocated teams of volunteers and others who are dealing with the crisis. in all local districts to fulfill the needs of these groups by receiving calls in the operations room • Converting some scout headquarters and dedicated to this purpose, where the necessary covered sports halls into emergency hospitals in data are recorded and requests are collected, case of the spread of infection and the increase then a volunteer is assigned to purchase them in cases of Covid-19 infection. The task of and deliver them to service seekers. Tunisian Scout is to carry out voluntary work inside and outside the hospital according to a • Collecting aid and donations in collaboration manual of procedures and special coordination with citizens and Tunisian Scouts’ partners inside in this field. shops, etc. and distributing them to the needy, in coordination with the relevant ministries and • Providing explanations of lessons for students the Ministry of Social Affairs. Instructions were in the final stages, such as: primary and issued to regulate the procedures of collecting secondary education. This included explanation aid, especially financial aid, and how to distribute of the lessons directly provided by teachers them to the beneficiaries within the quarantine and professors who are leaders of the scout centers established by the state to shelter movement to support students and prepare Tunisians coming from outside homeland and them for the final examinations. were in contact with people infected with the virus. The Ministry of Health trained teams of • Providing Iftar meals for fasting doctors and volunteers on how to deal within these centers, nurses in hospitals, security men, national army and how to take safety and prevention measures, and the eligible groups. a guide was prepared for all quarantine centers.
21 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC LES SCOUTS TUNISIENS
Partners: • Tunisian Children Organization.
• Junior Chamber International- Tunisia • The Tunisian Cabinet • Tunisian Union of Social Solidarity. • Ministry of Health • National Union of Tunisian Women. • Ministry of Youth and Sports • Mercy Society • Ministry of Transportation • Tunisian Federation of Industry and Trade. • Ministry of Human Rights, Civil Society • Tunisian Association for Agriculture and Associations and Constitutional Bodies Fishery. • Ministry of Commerce • The European Union. • Ministry of Social Affairs • The US Embassy. • Ministry of Local Affairs • The British Embassy. • Tunisian Red Crescent
No. of volunteers: 11,673 volunteers Total hours of volunteering: 1,875,618 Total number of field activities: 22,680. Total number value of food aid: 76,241 with a value of 3.5 thousand Tunisian dinars. Total number of blood donors: 1,850 leaders Total number of beneficiaries: 5,000,000
Sustainable Development Goals Achieved by Activities
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 22 SCOUTS MUSULMANS ALGÉRIENS
Overview
Scouting appeared in Algeria after the First World War by the French people, whose goal was to raise their children, and the origins of the Scouts Musulmans ALgeriens dated back to 1935. During the 1940s and 1950s, the way was paved to the Scouts Musulmans ALgeriens to participate in the Arab scout jamborees and conferences and gained the membership of the Arab Scout Region. Its membership in the World Organization of the Scout Movement was accepted after the state’s independence.
23 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Activities and Intervention Efforts
• Awareness and counselling activities (distributing awareness publications and organizing awareness campaigns).
• Distributing facemasks and cleaning materials.
• Sterilizing cities, institutions and museums.
• Distributing Ramadan Iftar meals to needy families under quarantine.
• Purchasing and delivery services for the elderly under quarantine
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Number of participating states: Number of volunteers participated
48 in awareness and social activities:
Number of distributed facemasks 29,712
since the outbreak of Covid-19: Number of scout workshops
1,253,145 producing facemasks:
Number of participating troops: 155
1,496 Total hours of volunteering:
Number of blood bags donated by 148,272
scouts: Number of facemasks produced in
6,137 these workshops:
Number of prevention activities: 466,271
19,952 Total number of beneficiaries:
Number of provided meals: 5,000,000
173,868
Number of field activities:
8,000
Number of distributed food parcels:
273,227
Sustainable Development Goals Achieved by Activities
25 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC SCOUTS MUSULMANS ALGÉRIENS
Partners
• Algerian Red Crescent • National Security • National Gendarmerie • Public and Private Companies • Charities • Civil Society Associations
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 26 SAUDI ARABIAN BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION
Overview
The scout movement in Saudi Arabia began in 1944, when the first scouting unit was formed in the Scholarship Preparation School in Makkah. In 1954, the Department of Physical and Social Education was established at the Ministry of Education and one of its functions was to work on
spreading the scout movement in the Kingdom’s schools. The Saudi Arabian Boy Scouts Association was established in 1961, and it was registered at the Arab level and recognized globally in 1963.
27 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC The Saudi Arabian Boy Scouts Association started prevention and awareness of the infectious taking action and precautionary measures Covid-19, how to combat it in the proper in facing Coronavirus «Covid-19», under the ways, and introducing a number of preventive guidance of His Excellency the President of the instructions and right use of sterilization and Association. All projects, programs, internal and protection tools. external scout activities in all sectors have been temporarily suspended until further notice. This • Online jamborees and camps: The General did not include the requests of the concerned Organization for Technical and Vocational official authorities for rangers’ clans, leaders and Training organized the scout camp via former scouts to participate in activating the the remote electronic training platform preventive plans to deal with epidemic diseases: (blackboard) to educate scouts and girl guides about fighting the spread of the virus through • Voluntary groups: The Association formed awareness programs, training sessions, and voluntary scout groups in the administrative workshops provided by a number of doctors, regions of the kingdom. Scout leaders, former academics and specialists in the scout scouts and rovers registered in these groups movement. The Association organized 4 digital and were ready for intervention when needed. camps for all scout stages, (buds and cubs, 37 teams were formed from these groups in boys, senior scouts and rovers), in addition to the governorates, joined by more than 3,200 the implementation of similar camps by some volunteers of leaders, rovers and former sectors via pages on Facebook. scouts who implemented 145 programs. • Cooperation with the Ministry of Commerce: • Health awareness: Before field participation, The Association participated with the Ministry the Association cooperated with King Saud of Commerce in a number of regions by University (represented by the University organizing the shoppers and directing them Medical City) in organizing a training to social distance while shopping, in addition program for remote awareness to deal with to distributing facemasks, gloves, sterilizers Covid-19 and precautions to be followed and measuring their temperature. while volunteering, with the participation of more than 200 leaders, rovers and former scouts. The program dealt with methods of
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• Cooperation with the Ministry of Human also participated with a work paper entitled Resources and Social Development: The “the programs of youth leaders and their role Association supported the Ministry of Human in the development of civil society initiatives Resources and Social Development in Hail in the field of human rights” within the region through the distribution of food. framework of the training program in the field of human rights organized by Human Rights • Cooperation with the Administration of Commission for young leaders to develop and Districts: The Association helped in regulating strengthen civil society initiatives. the entry and exit of cargo trucks. • Media and awareness: The Association • Blood donation: a number of scout leaders, used social media and through its account former scouts and rovers donated their blood on social media networks to raise awareness through the National Blood Donation Scout of citizens. It also used infographic designs project launched by the Association under the and awareness, motivation, and assessment slogan «Ready for My Country» by registering videos. It also released many press via “Wateen” initiative and the application of reports and participated in many programs the Saudi Red Crescent. broadcasted in various Saudi television and satellite channels. • Sterilization: The volunteer teams in different regions and provinces participated in sterilization of ATMs, cashier machines, and shopping carts. They cooperated with the secretariats and municipalities in sterilizing headquarters that were designated for achieving the success of the plan of the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs to accommodate labors in line with the precautionary measures to combat Covid-19 pandemic.
• Food distribution: The Association contributed with many charities and «Barra Mecca» campaign to distributing food rations in addition to adopting the project of messengers of peace for 900 families to provide them with food throughout the year, and taking into account food of Ramadan. Many charitable associations and institutions were supported with in-kind and human resources during this pandemic.
•Awareness and development: The Association participated in the workshops organized by the Arab Scout Region, and organized many workshops in cooperation with the Arab Scout Region. It organized a virtual national scout forum to prevent Covid-19 and the media forum “informative sixty minutes”. The Association organized various programs including volunteering, scouting and community, volunteering opportunities, (crisis of Covid-19 as a model), community partnerships and their role in the crisis, WOSM World Safe from Harm Policy, risk and crises management in the scout programs after Covid-19, experience and expertise in the face of crisis and the impact of risks and crises on the national scout strategy. The Association
29 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC SAUDI ARABIAN BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION
Total number of activities: 227 activities. No. of volunteers: 3,200 volunteers Total hours of volunteering: 127,477 hours Total hours of Massagers of Peace: 11,265 hours Total number of partners: 97
Sustainable Development Goals Achieved by Activities
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Overview
The scout movement began in Sudan in 1913 during the British occupation by Mr. Jackson, who formed the first group in the city of Atbara in northern Sudan and established the first board of directors in 1930. Sudan Scouts Association registered with the Arab Scout Organization in 1953, and was recognized globally in 1956.
31 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Key efforts: • Making 3 videos on symptoms and how to Since the beginning of the pandemic, Sudan avoid the transmission of infection. Scouts Association has formed an emergency room according to the following: • Conducting 8 awareness campaigns in a Establishing a high committee to develop a number of congestion areas, such as markets, single state plan involving three phases as travel stations and transportation stops, and follows: air scouts carried out an awareness campaign by a drone. Phase one: Guiding Phase: 256 rovers and leaders • Making a bicycle trip for the rovers to the participated, and the Association carried out the north of Khartoum. following activities: • Printing 5,000 brochures to identify the • Conducting public seminars in 3 states such disease. as North Kordofan, Al Jazeera and Central Darfur. • Printing 1,000 posters depicted by transmission methods.
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Phase two:
The prevention phase: 45 rovers and leaders participated, and the Association carried out the following activities: • Providing a sufficient number of sterilizers, facemasks and gloves to be distributed to areas with high population density, in cooperation with several official and popular authorities. • Manufacturing facemasks with local materials and distributed them in the markets, in cooperation with a number of private schools that have scout teams; • Providing quantities of soap and organizing campaigns for the best way to wash hands using local cleaning products, with the contribution of other scout groups in several states. • Producing photo prints and colored publications with local dialect.
Phase Three:
Sterilization Stage: The participants from all the states reached 340 rovers and leaders.
After imposing a complete closure in the country, the Association provided 20 spray pumps in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Health, and a number of sites were sprayed, such as hospitals, ministries, youth clubs, police stations, quarantine centers and security forces, fulcrums in roads and bridges. In cooperation with a number of service committees in residential neighborhoods, the Association sterilized 18 residential districts.
In the field of psychological counseling for people who were in contact with persons infected with Covid-19, the Association, in cooperation with a number of specialists, conducted a psychological counseling workshop to train 15 scout leaders and directed them to work through media to provide moral messages that contribute to relieving the psychological pressure on those who were in contact the infected persons. The number of beneficiaries who received direct support in all states is estimated at 3,000 citizens and the number of indirectly supported people is estimated at 6,000 citizens.
33 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC SUDAN SCOUTS ASSOCIATION
Total number of Partners volunteers: • Federal Ministry of Health 641 volunteers • Ministry of Youth and Sports Total number of • Popular Services Committees beneficiaries: in neighborhoods 6,000 beneficiaries • Takaful Charity Organization
Sustainable Development Goals Achieved by Activities
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Overview
The Scout Movement started in Syria in 1912 and stopped its activity during the First World War, then it came back and the scout teams were formed in 1919. Scouts of Syria was officially established in 1924. However, its activity was halted and then resumed in 1936, when Scouts of Syria became one civil organization. In 1954, it was registered at the Arab level and a republican decree was issued in respect of the statute of the Scouts of Syria. It was recognized globally in 1924.
35 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Activities and intervention efforts • Sterilization campaign for vehicles coming to Aleppo. • Distributing awareness posters in streets, mass transit stations, bodies and institutions • Distributing facemasks in a number of mosques, regulating the entry and exit of • A sterilization and sanitization campaign worshippers, while maintaining social dis- covering streets, residential and government tance. buildings and service centers • Organizing a competition for scouting, • A sterilization campaign for Western Cornish artistic, cultural, and literary talents under in As Suwayda city and the crowded places. the title of Damascus Jasmine Scout Contest from Home, where each scout made a video • A sterilization and sanitization campaign for about his talent and send it to the Central schools. Committee, and the participating works were presented to specialized committees to • Awareness campaign for the prevention of evaluate them. Covid-19.
• Cleaning and sterilizing scout headquar- ters.
• Participating in securing, processing and distributing of foodstuffs
• A sterilization campaign for army barri- cades, some scout headquarters, and Ousrat Al Ikhaa Association department of pregnant women.
• Blood donation campaign.
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• The Supreme Executive Committee participated in a number of activities and events which were organized by the Arab Support Center and the World Scout Bureau, mainly: - The Sustainable Development Forum organized by the Arab Region via the internet. - The First Online Meeting of the leaders’ team. - The First Meeting of the Training Commissioners and Executives of Adult Resources Development in the Arab Scout organization. - Online meetings in the relevant sectors with the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts Association. - The virtual interactive workshops on the internet. - The Online World Jamboree, under the slogan «Share the Light». - The First Meeting of the International Commissioners of the Arab Region. - The Online World Jamboree for Girl Guides.
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Sustainable Development Goals Achieved by Activities
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 38 IRAQ SCOUT ASSOCIATION
Overview Iraq Scout Association was founded in 1918. In 1920, the board of Iraq Scout Association was formed after the independence of Iraq. It was recognized globally in 1956, where Iraq has become a member of the World Scout Bureau, and in 1965 the Supreme Council of Iraq Scout Association was formed, while in 1970 the Supreme Council of Iraq Girl Guides Association was formed. In 1984, scouting and guiding in Iraq merged. However, a decision of comprehensive ban of scouting was issued and Iraqi membership was suspended with the Arab Scout Region and World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1990. It continued internally thriving under the auspices of the Ministry of Education. The membership of the Iraq Scout Association resumed at the Arab and world levels at the 41st World Scout Conference in the «Baku» Azerbaijan, 2017.
39 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Activities and intervention efforts: Second: Sterilization • Procedural actions • Sterilization 1. Distribution of prevention tools to avoid • Awareness the spread of the epidemic among • Humanitarian assistance citizens, including facemasks, gloves and • Mental health sanitizers. 2. Sterilizing and sanitizing government First: Procedural actions departments, markets, stores, houses and streets in all provinces. 1. The Public Relations and Media Committee 3. Sterilizing and sanitizing mosques and formed an emergency team headed by the churches, and distributing prevention chairperson of the committee under the direct tools to worshipers. supervision of the General Leadership of the Association, to coordinate with partners, to follow up activities and news of the campaign ‘Be prepared” in all provinces.
2. All central and decentralized scout activities at the internal and national levels have been stopped.
3. Due to the great importance of the scout and guide leaders in Iraq and their influential role in society, a number of them were nominated to be among the crisis management teams formed by the Cabinet or within the crisis management subgroups in the provinces.
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Third: Awareness
The Public Relations and Media Committee 4. Preparing daily bulletin of the epide- carried out the following activities: miological situation or the so called epidemic 1. Designing and printing several brochures map, including among its folds the necessity and publications, posters, leaflets of aware- of staying at home and commitment to ness exceeded 2,000,000 across the prov- quarantine. inces and an educational leaflet was also printed on how to make masks from tissues, 5. Publishing a weekly bulletin containing whether humidified or sterilized (wet wipes) meetings and articles on awareness raising entitled make your mask by your own. and follow up of Iraqi scout activities to counter the risks of Covid-19. 2. Producing a number of short films that in- clude the participation of acting scenes to 6. Advertising contest for the most beautiful raise the awareness of citizens, as a contri- picture, short film, and publication, and of the bution from Iraqi leaders and guide leaders, best idea/proposals of «Be prepared» cam- including a short film about the necessity paign against Covid-19. of staying at home, and how to make self- isolation of yourself and commit to quaran- 7. Preparing and presenting a television tine, and to fight the rumors, and glorifying program with the participation of medical, the role of health and military cadres and their mental health doctors, policemen, supporters, to preserve the lives of citizens, representatives of community organizations and how to prevent Covid-19. and officials of ministries to find out the most important preventive actions in their 3. Launch of the «stay-at-your-home / stay at ministries. home» campaign through videos of Iraqi scout leaders and guide leaders, and the campaign resonated widely.
41 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IRAQ SCOUT ASSOCIATION
Fourth: Humanitarian assistance Fifth: Mental health Ministry of Education General Directorate of • Establishing a Social Solidarity Fund in Sports Education, held scouting seminars to raise governorates to assist groups affected by awareness, and demonstrate the importance the closure through a campaign “cooperate of mental health to reduce the spread of the in righteousness and piety”, by civil scout epidemic, in collaboration with the association of associations. Dr. Saif Janan who delivered several lectures on • Distributing food to a large number of limited- this matter to Iraqi Scouts. income families and casual labor to keep them safe at home and avoid infection, where the number of beneficiaries amounted to 12,250 poor families. • Opening workshops in several provinces including Scouts of Al-Qadisiyah, Baghdad Rusafa 2, Maysan, and civil scout associations for manufacturing and sewing facemasks to fill the shortage in local markets and control their high prices, which made citizen reluctant to buy them. facemasks are distributed for free.
Total number of activities: 16 activities Total number of volunteers: 2,000 volunteers Total hours of volunteering: 16,000 hours Total number of beneficiaries from food distribution: 12,250 families Total number of beneficiaries from other activities: 1,000,000 individuals
Partners Ministries represented in: Government service institutions • Iraq Scout Council. such as: • Higher Education. • Community police • Heal and Environment. • Civil Defense • Work and Social Affairs. • Red Crescent • Ministry of Youth
Sustainable Development Goals Achieved by Activities
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 42 THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR SCOUTS AND GUIDES - OMAN
Overview
The first scouting troop in the Sultanate of Oman was formed in 1932, at the Royal Schoolin Muscat. In 1975, His Majesty Sultan of Oman Qaboos bin Said issued a royal decree establishing the National Authority for Scouts and Guides under his personal supervision. In 1976, Arab recognition of the Omani Scouts was obtained during the 12th Arab Scout Conference in Tunisia. The Omani Scouts were recognized globally during the 26th World Scout Conference in Montreal, Canada in 1977. In 2007, a royal decree was issued replacing the National Authority for Scouts and Guides with Directorate-General of The National Organization For Scouts And Guides - Oman.
43 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Reference should be made to the Ministry of And Community Awareness Programs, discussed the Education’s efforts in support of various aspects directorate’s action plan to limit the spread of the of educational work while dealing with (Covid-19) Covid-19, based on the role of scouts and guides in pandemic, the efforts of the Central Committee educating society about the various aspects of the for Crisis Management represented in the set of Covid-19 pandemic, and the partnership between preventive and awareness raising measures to limit civil sector institutions, including the Ministry of the spread of the novel Covid-19, and precautionary Health. The proposed plan is based on three groups measures to contain Covid-19 in cooperation with for its implementation, namely: the relevant authorities. It is necessary also to shed The first group includes employees of the light on the decisions of the Supreme Committee Directorate-General of Scouts and Guides, the in charge of examining the mechanism for dealing second group consists of supervisors of all scouts and with developments resulting from the spread of the guides’ departments in the educational directorates (Covid-19) and activating the response of medical in the governorates, and the third group comprises and public health sector as well as the relief and rovers in all governorates of the Sultanate. They shelter sector in dealing with this pandemic. In line all work according to a central mechanism that with all these efforts and integration of national the directorate follows up with the scouting and roles at this stage in responding to initiatives from guiding leaders who are trained centrally to transfer governmental and private institutions and civil the impact of training along with continuous society institutions, and pursuant to the principles follow up of the implementation of the action of the scouting and guiding movement in such plan in the governorates. Thus, scouts and guides situations, the Directorate-General of Scouts and become a contact between doctors and citizens in Guides has undertaken a number of initiatives in a decentralized manner through the provision of support of various national efforts in this field, the training programs for the rovers in the governorates most prominent of which are: by those concerned in the General Directorates of Health Services according to the clans registered in First: Launching a community initiative in each governorate through a training session lasting cooperation with the Ministry of Health for one day. Type of Initiative: awareness/ health The Directorate-General of Scouts and Guides, in cooperation with the General Directorate of Health Care represented by the Department of Education
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Second: Launching the directorates new The first phase begins with training supervisors website: from various voluntary agencies. The second Type of Initiative: technical/ service phase relates to training scouts, guides, rovers, The Directorate-General of Scouts and Guides and other volunteers according to specific groups launched its new website in order to provide its members inside and outside the Sultanate with Fifth: Implementing workshops to train information from its reliable sources, in addition and qualify volunteers in dealing with to providing electronic services in an easy way due developments of Coronavirus to the rapid and steady developments in the world Type of Initiative: Awareness-raising of information technology. The site is the official The Directorate-General of Scouts and Guides, in reference for members, and reflects its identity cooperation with the Ministry of Health, the office and objectives. It also facilitates the employment of the Governor of Bawshar and Al-Amerat, and of its capabilities in support of the national efforts (Goodness Call) team, organized two workshops exerted in addressing the Covid-19 pandemic to qualify and train 36 volunteers in the states of by publishing a set of directives and guidelines Bawshar and Amerat. This was within the context for awareness and prevention when dealing with of the national efforts to enhance volunteering this pandemic in a way that contributes to the work and prepare health trained teams to face safety of everyone. This is in addition to shedding the developments of Covid-19 in line with the light on various scouting and guiding activities, next stages of preparedness if the participation programs, activities in this field to highlight the of volunteers is required to support the exerted exerted efforts. efforts.
Third: Activating the volunteer work of Sixth: Returning stranded students and Scouts and Guides in support of the national those who completed the health quarantine efforts: period to their regions in the various Type of Initiative: service/ volunteering governorates of the Sultanate: The Directorate-General of Scouts and Guides Type of Initiative: service implemented an initiative aiming at activating The Directorate-General of Scouts and Guides, the volunteering work of scout and guide leaders under the supervision of the Relief and Shelter as well as rovers all over Oman. The initiative Sector, participated in the transport and travel includes providing logistics support for doctors of 386 students who had completed the health in health isolation centers in cooperation with quarantine period to their regions in the various relevant bodies. To put this initiative into action, governorates of the Sultanate. a technical team in the Directorate-General was established to determine a framework for its Seventh: Campaign “purify my house” to success and prepare elink for persons desiring sterilize and clean 112 mosques to participate in the initiative. There was a Type of Initiative: Sterilization great response and volunteers were divided into The Endowments Committee and the House various group as per needs in coordination with of Money in the state of Bawshar have begun relevant bodies and under direct supervision of implementing the initiative «Purify my Home», the Directorate-General of Scouts and Guides. which aims to sterilize 112 mosques in the state with the participation of the Directorate-General Fourth: Humanitarian Assistance of Scouts and Guides and the General Directorate Type of Initiative: Humanitarian service of Muscat Municipality in Bawshar and Al-Nabaa The Directorate-General of Scouts and Guides Services Company. This came as part of the efforts reviewed with the Omani Authority for Charitable exerted to prevent Covid-19, as the campaign Activities the mechanisms of supporting volunteer was implemented during the period from 20 to work and the formation of working teams from 23 April 2020. scouts and rovers consisting of 300 scouts and rovers and training them in coordination with the Ministry of Health. The aim was to provide support and assistance to some areas of health isolation in the Governorate of Muscat through the delivery and distribution of some needs of its residents, in cooperation with the Omani Authority for Charitable Activities, through the creation of trained work teams according to the mechanisms and standards set by the Ministry of Health. These efforts were in line with the developments of the spread of the Covid-19 .
45 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR SCOUTS AND GUIDES - OMAN
Eighth: Blood drive “drop of life” Tenth: Cooperation with Omani Medical Type of Initiative: humanitarian service Association and Government Hospitals: The Directorate-General of Scouts and Guides in Type of Initiative: service cooperation with the Ministry of Health launched The Directorate-General of Scouts and Guides, the national blood donation campaign «A Drop of through 55 rovers all over Oman, participated in Life» on Thursday, April 16, 2020, at the Central supporting the national efforts of the Omani Medical Blood Bank in the state of Bawshar. The campaign Association, the Royal Hospital and Nizwa hospital came as part of the partnership in order to meet the by serving visitors and helping the medical crew. needs of the blood bank in the light of out break of Rovers work round-the-clock in rotation along with Covid-19. The blood drive targeted rangers’ clans the medical staff. They took part in measuring in sports clubs, universities, colleges and Omani temperature of visitors, arranged the safe entry and women’s associations in the Sultanate, in the form exit of people visiting hospitals and organized the of a contest, with the aim of enhancing the role traffic of ambulance. of scouts and guides in community service and development. This focused on finding sustainable blood donors and contributing to motivating rovers and community members to donate blood Total number of activities:
Ninth: Employing the directorate’s social 10 activities media: Type of Initiative: technical service / Total number of volunteers: awareness 606 volunteers The Directorate-General of Scouts and Guides has set up a plan to activate its web sites and social Total hours of volunteering: media networks in support of national efforts to confront Covid-19 pandemic by employing them 12,435 hours in activating its initiative and providing technical potentials to support its implementation. This is in addition to preparing and disseminating some designs and awareness posters, producing some relevant videos with a view to control the spread Sustainable Development Goals of Covid-19, along with launching a competition to Achieved by Activities increase awareness of workers in the educational field and members of the scout movement in the Sultanate.
Partners: • Ministry of Health • Ministry of Social Development • Ministry of Regional Municipalities • Ministry of Manpower • Omani Charity Organization • Ministry of Trade and Industry • Bawshar’s Governor’s Office • Al-Amerat Governor’s Office • Omani Transportation Company • Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs • Bawshar Municipality • Central Blood Bank • Omani Women›s Association, Ibri State • Sports Clubs in the States of Mossanaa, Khaboura, Sahm and Nizwa
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 46 PALESTINIAN SCOUT ASSOCIATION
Overview The scouting and guiding movement emerged in Palestine in 1912. As a result, the first scouting troop was formed at St. George School in Jerusalem. The Palestinian Scout Association was internationally recognized in 1928 and scouting continued to spread through the adoption of many volunteer programs at the national level until the Palestinian exodus (Nakba) in 1948, and the membership of Palestine in the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) was suspended. However, scouting activities continued until Palestinian Scout Association regained its full membership in WOSM in 2016.
47 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC • Launching the national scouting cam- • Distributing food and ration supplies to the paigns, on top of which is the campaign “I poor and the needy families and delivering am a Palestinian volunteer scout” on Fa- them to their houses. cebook, to which thousands of scouts and guides responded and put themselves under • Procuring medicines to chronic diseases and the call of homeland and duty. The campaign delivering them to houses of patients. included: 1. Designing, issuing and publishing • Participating with the committees working many awareness posters on barriers to raise awareness and direct the 2. Determining volunteering paths and movement of returning workers from the fields (awareness, training, logistics green line. support, assistance to the needy fami- lies, help to quarantined people). • Spreading awareness and a culture of staying at homes and follow prevention • Integrating into the membership of the methods by publishing and producing videos central and subsidiary emergency commit- in several languages from home. tees in the various governorates, and working under their umbrella in accordance with the • Recording and reproducing videos in national policy. cooperation with Palestinian channel for youth and sports affiliated to the Supreme Council • Sterilizing the neighborhoods and public for Youth and Sports. utilities in line with safety measures. • Supporting the activities and programs of • Collecting and distributing medical mate- the scout movement to enable scouting to rials including sterilizers, medical supplies, continue in facing the pandemic through a and medicines, and securing them in quar- large financial aid provided by the Supreme antine centers through the competent au- Council for Youth and Sports to the scout thorities commissions.
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The Palestinian Scout Association responded to • Participating in the session “scouting mission all the invitations from the Arab Scout Region in a better world framework”. to participate in the virtual activities held by the relevant departments in the Region through • Submitting working papers, proposals and zoom application by involving many scout and programs for training and adult resources guide leaders in workshops held in the following development for the Arab Scout Organization. areas: • Involving heads and members of Arab First virtual workshops Sub-committees in the areas of community service and scout programs and curricula 1. Humanitarian action, youth programs, in workshops and dialogues through zoom adults in scouting, global support assessment application at both the regional and national tool, safe from harm, the impact of scouting, levels. youth involvement, membership growth, better world framework, motivation skills, • Encouraging children to stay at home during leadership). the quarantine period by distributing toys and stories to them. 2. Participating in the symposium “precaution- ary measures necessary for volunteering Total number of volunteers: during coronavirus crisis” with World Health Organization. 6,982 volunteers
Second virtual workshops Total hours of volunteering: 1,508,200 hours World youth program policy, adults in scouting, world youth involvement policy, world safe from Total number of beneficiaries: harm policy, the world communication strategy, better world framework, global support as- 4,039,000 beneficiaries sessment tool and membership growth.
49 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC PALESTINIAN SCOUT ASSOCIATION
Partners • The Supreme Council for Youth • Governorates of the Homeland. and Sports. • Security Service Authority. • Ministry of Health. • Municipalities and Local • Ministry of Social Affairs. Councils. • Ministry of Labor. • Local Community Associations.
Sustainable Development Goals Achieved by Activities
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 50 Qatar Boy Scouts Association
Overview
The scout movement began in Qatar in 1956. Qatar Boy Scouts Association became member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) in 1965, and it is also A member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), serving about 17,421 scouts (as of 2011) 9,845 of girl guides (as of 2003).
51 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC The efforts exerted by its volunteers played a In order to ensure safety of volunteers and decisive role in providing support services to qualify them in performing their mission, Qatar health institutions in the country. These efforts Red Crescent provided training for the volunteers came as an example of solidarity between in using protective tools and skills of delivering community members and official bodies in facing psychological support for the quarantined Coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis and controlling its people. Volunteers with medical experience also spread. trained community members in the symptoms of Covid-19 and means of protection and prevention These efforts were Conducted by over 301 young against the pandemic. These efforts marked as a scouts and guides of all ages with different contribution to the state efforts towards fighting experiences, Who participated in «Volunteer the novel disease and urging Qatari youth to with us for Qatar» initiative, which was launched provide assistance for those who need medical immediately after the out-break of the Coronavirus care and psychological support due to the increase (Covid-19). of infected people.
Volunteer Teams: Qatar Boy Scouts Association formed a volunteer scout team consisting of 22 scout and guide leaders, former scouts and rovers.
Areas of assistance varied between providing psychological support, health education and logistics services to inmates in 28 quarantine centers nationwide. Members of the team participated in street sterilization, supervision and health inspections of restaurants and commercial establishments in cooperation with the Ministry of Municipality and Environment, supervision on community awareness operations and the distribution of medical supplies in cooperation with community police.
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•Awareness campaign under the slogan •Qatar Boy Scouts Association participated “Together to resist Covid-19”. in the first webinar on sustainable development activities, to discuss the This campaign was launched with the aim of following: strengthening measures of infection preven- tion and control as well as conducting neces- •Reinforcing measures of infection prevention and sary training on the use of personal protective control by conducting exercises, in cooperation equipment. with the Qatar Red Crescent and the Ministry of Health, on the symptoms of Covid-19. •Camps and hotel of Qatar Boy Scouts •Providing logistics support (water, food, and Association at the disposal of the Ministry facemasks) to external volunteers. of Health Scouts, in accordance with specific health controls, Qatar Boy Scouts Association buildings, including encouraged worshipers to wear facemasks and its halls, hotel, and camp, were placed at the comply with social distance, as wearing face- disposal of the Ministry of Health, and a Covid-19 masks supports the state’s efforts to confront patient isolation unit was established inside the Covid-19 pandemic. Scouts helped in distributing Association’s building. facemasks to citizens entering commercial stores and mosques (at the beginning of the crisis) and •A second campaign under the slogan publishing posters showing how to use them. «Don’t take more than you need” •Education and Development: Due to the panic of the citizens for fear of run- out of foodstuffs, Qatar Boy Scouts Association Qatar Boy Scouts Association participated in the took the initiative to organize a campaign among workshops organized by the Arab Scout Region. citizens and scouts to reassure them that the It also organized many workshops in cooperation strategic stock of all materials is available and in with the Region, in the field of crisis management, large quantities. the world safe from harm policy, risk and crisis management in the scout programs after the •A third campaign named «Stay at Home» out-break of Covid-19. This is in addition to the role of the former scouts in facing crises and the The campaign was initiated with the aim of urging impact of risks. scouts, citizens and residents to use their time at home in activities through social channels, in line with the governments efforts to encourage citizens to stay at home, and to apply safety guidelines during this period to address Covid-19.
53 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC QATAR BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION
Total number of volunteers Partners provided logistics support: • Various Ministries in the country. 301 volunteers. • Ministry of Health. Total hours of volunteering: • Qatar Red Crescent. 32,000 hour
Sustainable Development Goals Achieved by Activities
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 54 KUWAIT BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION
Overview The establishment of the Kuwait Boy Scouts Association dated back to 1936. However, scout activity was suspended until 1951. In 1952 as the government encouraged the spread of scouting, the number of scout members increased. Then, Kuwait Boy Scouts Association was established with the support of the state, and was registered at the Arab level and globally in 1955.
55 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Kuwait Boy Scouts Association implemented Kuwait Boy Scouts Association called volunteers several awareness raising and educational to participate in sterilization of the Association’s activities to confront the novel Covid-19. Daily premises. It also took part in distributing bulletins were issued and various awareness Ramadan Iftar meals to needy families under raising videos were produced and published on quarantine. Kuwait Boy Scouts Association ac- various social media means of Kuwait Boy Scouts tively participated in the exceptional edition of Association. JOTI 2020.
The Association also organized television and radio meetings to raise awareness about how to prevent Covid-19 and the mechanism of the Association’s work by forming specialized volunteer teams for crises. It also organized a seminar on how to overcome Covid-19 through live broadcasting through the website of Kuwait Boy Scouts Association. In addition, intensive campaigns were organized on the novel Covid-19, including awareness brochures, distribution of sanitization and sterilization materials, cleaning and equipping the quarantine and accommodation centers.
Members of the Board of Kuwait Boy Scouts Association and the committees working in the State’s Civil Defense Authority volunteered to follow up Covid-19 and decided to place the building of the Association with all its potentials at the disposal of the Ministry of Health.
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 56 LEBANESE SCOUTING FEDERATION
Overview
In 1921, the first scout federation was established under the name “the Scout Federation in Syria and Lebanon”, which was recognized in 1924 at the World Scout Conference in Copenhagen. In 1936, Lebanon and Syria separated. The Scout Federation was recognized globally in 1947 and its name was modified to the Lebanese Scouting Federation in 1969.
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 57 Types of Activities: sterilizing the personal properties and luggage of expatriates who returned from abroad as The Lebanese Scouting Federation carried out a preventive measure to limit the spread of 15 activities to confront Covid-19 pandemic Covid-19. (awareness - sterilization - humanitarian aids 5. Electronic awareness campaigns by - medical training - mental health - training publishing posters and videos on social media sessions - data collection - virtual workshops ... platforms to introduce the risks of the virus, etc.). how it spreads and how to prevent it. 1. Equipping and training specialized scouting teams on how to wear special protective suits, sterilization, and transporting the infected patients to hospitals.
2. Preparing electronic communication platforms with the aim of communicating with scouts, their parents and families. These platforms have dedicated programs and competitions of interest to the family, as our goal is to reach everyone.
3. In addition to psychological support, scouting associations helped by seeking the help of specialists in mental health for children and adults alike.
4. The specialized teams organized sterilization campaigns in cities and villages, as well as sterilizing places of worship, buildings of official institutions, orphanages, institutions for people with special needs and houses for the elderly and foodstuff shops, and also contributed to
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6. Campaigns for distributing protective clothing and medical facemasks to worship places, official institutions and shops, in addition to distributing awareness leaflets to prevent the risks of Coronavirus in all governorates.
7. Releasing several special films related to global, Arab and religious scout events, awareness campaigns and social assistance.
8. Participating in the campaign organized by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, under the name «Coronavirus prevention and the importance of home quarantine»
9. Participating actively in the special edition of JOTI 2020.
10. Cooperating with the Ministry of Youth and Sports in establishing a webinar session entitled «Empowering Leaders to Confront Corona- virus».
11. Participating in virtual interactive workshops through the ZOOM application organized by the Arab Scout Region
12. Putting scout headquarters at the disposal of the Ministry of Public Health through the Ministry of Youth and Sports to be used as quarantine headquarters.
13. Assisting in distributing foodstuffs, in cooperation with municipalities and donors, on all Lebanese territories, taking into account the utmost level of protection and prevention.
14. Helping the Ministry of Interior, the Municipalities and the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs to collect data and addresses of the poorest families by the phone, so that the Lebanese Army can provide them with food and financial aid.
15. Following up leadership training programs remotely.
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Total number of activities 15 activities Total number of leaders provided sterilization services and transportation of patients: 1,000 volunteers Total number of volunteers: 19,541 volunteers Total hours of volunteering: 1,948,000 hours Total hours of beneficiaries: 1,000,000 beneficiaries
Partners: • Ministry of Public Health • Public Security • World Health Organi- • Lebanese Cabinet zation (WHO) • Municipalities in the • Civil Defense • Ministry of Social Affairs major cities, villages and • Ministry of National • United Nations Inter- towns in collaboration Defense national Children›s with the scouts in all • Higher Committee for Emergency Fund (UNICEF) the Lebanese regions, a Disaster Management • Army great number of private • Ministry of the Interior • United Nations De- institutions and individuals and Municipalities velopment Program who have contributed in- • Supreme Relief Com- (UNDP) kind or food assistance. mittee • Internal Security • Ministry of Youth and • United Nations High Sports Commission for Refu-gees • Red Cross and Cres-cent (UNHCR)
Sustainable Development Goals Achieved by Activities
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 60 BOY SCOUTS AND GIRL GUIDES OF LIBYA
Overview The first scout troop in Libya was established at Tripoli High School, led by Ali Khalifa Al-Zaidi, who
was considered the founder of the Scout Movement in Libya. In 1954, the first scout troop was
established in both Benghazi and Sabha and became a member of the World Organization of the
Scout Movement in 1958.
61 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC All the commissions, through their troops and teams, carried out awareness raising activities to combat Covid-19 pandemic, which included posters, videos, lectures, acting scenes... etc. Various media such as radio, television, social media, Facebook and twitter were used, which had a great impact on educating the community. The indicators and numbers views, follow ups, and posts for awareness posts, especially in social media, were very large, as the number of posters exceeded 200, the number of videos 86, as well as episodes on local radio channels.
Sterilization: Sterilization campaigns were among the first activities in which Libyas scouts participated, even before the announcement of cases of infection, as they included government buildings, public places, shops and large markets, in cooperation with the National Safety Authority in general, and some civil society organizations, as an example the city of Derna, which is a mediumsized population city. The number of government buildings that have been sterilized in this city exceeded 300.
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Humanitarian aids: There are many people whose work has stopped because of the Covid-19 pandemic, whether citizens or expatriates, and many of them work for a daiy wage alongside the displaced due to the conditions of war.
For this reason, the scouts of Libya respond quickly to help these brackets of society, as scouts communicate with supporters and donors and scouts prepared food supplies to be distributed to the people in need.
Thousands of food aids were distributed to families all over entire Libya, and Ramadan Iftar was prepared more than once, and several thousand of Iftar meals were distributed to expatriate workers.
Other efforts fall under community service: 1. Establishing medical aid teams from a group of volunteer doctors who provide services for free to citizens under the name “Hello Doctor”.
2. Female former scouts participated in the project of sewing facemasks in cooperation with the Medical Supply Authority, so that facemasks were made according to the specifications as former scouts made hundreds of facemasks.
63 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC BOY SCOUTS AND GIRL GUIDES OF LIBYA
Total number of activities Partners Numerous activities • Volunteers’ team. Total number of volunteers: • Local civil associations 7,000 volunteers
Sustainable Development Goals Achieved by Activities
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 64 Egyptian SCOUT FEDERATION
Overview The scout movement was introduced Egypt in 1914. The spread of scouting first started in 1918 when the first scout group was formed in the Royal School (now Khedive Ismail School). In 1920, the first Scout Association was established and called “the Egyptian Scout Association”, under the chairmanship of Mahmoud Shukri Pasha. The Egyptian Scouting was globally recognized in the World Scout Conference held in Paris in 1922, and registered at the Arab level in 1954.
65 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Since the announcement of the Covid-19 pandemic, the states focus has been to transform all activities in line with the new situation, while committing to social distancing, staying at home and preventing large gatherings. So, the Egyp-tian Scout Federation began to develop plans and activities that are commensurate with the new reality. The following lines show the efforts of the Federation:
1. Sterilizing all headquarters, and scout camps in all governorates, in order to keep the places of the Egyptian Scout Federation free of any infection causes that can help the spread of the virus, as well as to have the headquarters ready when the state needs it at any time during Coronavirus pandemic.
2. Sterilizing public headquarters in governorates, such as: health directorates - schools - youth centers - police departments - mosques -churches - archaeological areas – banks…etc. This has been a contribution from scouts to community, and to fulfill the scouting promise of (duty towards the homeland and others). Rovers and leaders from the scout teams and groups from the four central associations in the governorates sterilized the scout headquarters, youth centers, banks, places of worship …etc, in cooperation with the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
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3. Conducting awareness programs on the prevention of Covid-19 in all means of communication, scouting media …etc.
4. Participating in television and satellite programs on Egyptian channels.
5. Participating in many television programs to introduce the efforts made by the Egyptian Scout Federation by explaining how to confront the virus, and ways to prevent it.
6. Printing different awareness posters about the pandemic, that suits each governorate
7. Printing a large number of advertising posters indicating, «How to protect yourself and those around you from Coronavirus.»
8. Releasing films and infographics about the virus and ways to prevent it
9. Coordinating with the health directorates in the governorates to distribute chlorine, sanitizers and facemasks to workers.
10. Distributing facemasks in squares and crowded places.
11. Helping the elderly in obtaining their pensions from bank by preparing the appropriate places, and sanitizing and sterilizing the ATMs.
12. Establishing volunteer teams in every governorate through scouting associations.
13. Broadcasting the state’s instructions regarding confronting the Coronavirus pandemic in all satellite channels and scout media.
14. Arranging a number of online camps for all scout sections.
67 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Egyptian SCOUT FEDERATION
Total number of activities Partners 200 activities • Schools Total number of volunteers: • Universities 5,500 volunteers • Youth centers Total number of volunteering hours: • Ministries 66,000 hours • Civil associations Number of partners: 50 partners
Sustainable development goals achieved by activities
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 68 Fédération Nationale du Scoutisme Marocain
Overview Fédération Nationale du Scoutisme Marocain was established in 1957, and it was recognized at the World Scout Conference in Lisbon in 1959. It is a founding member of the Arab Maghreb Scout Union in 1958, and joined the Arab Scout Organization in 1960, its membership in the World Organization of the Scout Movement was officially recognized in 1961. The Scout Charter of Fédération Nationale du Scoutisme Marocain was issued in 1971.
69 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC According to the developments the world witnessed regarding the outbreak of covid-19 and the precautionary arrangements that followed, Fédération Nationale du Scoutisme Marocain, with all the associations under its umbrella and within its departments and branches, has adopted an exceptional and urgent program that cares about awareness raising procedures, identification of the risks of the virus and methods of prevention, taking into consideration social services activities and appropriate preventive interventions.
The most important of these efforts is the national blood donation campaigns in which all branches of the National Scout organization of both genders participated, in response to the call of the competent authorities for the necessity to donate blood to the various hospitals of the Kingdom of Morocco.
Fédération Nationale du Scoutisme Marocain also organized a virtual scout camp, which came as an educational and entertainment scout space with the aim of making the various groups of scout sections live in the camping atmosphere during the quarantine period, in order to stress the values of the Scout Movement.
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 70 Fédération Nationale du Scoutisme Marocain
• National Blood Donation Campaigns: • Direct awareness campaigns for These campaigns were organized with citizens: the participation of most branches of the The campaigns were organized in cooperation Fédération Nationale du Scoutisme Marocain, with the local authorities and awareness- male and female, in response to the call of raising tours were organized on the the competent authorities, which announced importance of preventing the Coronavirus the lack of stocks of the necessary spare by using detergents and sanitizers to wash blood bags needed by the various hospitals in hands, as well as sterilizing clothes, methods the Kingdom of Morocco. of using facemasks, and how to dispose of them after the end of use. • Online training courses: The quarantine period was a favorable • Support poor families and provide opportunity to enhance and strengthen foodstuff: the scouting knowledge and perceptions of One of the most important activities of members in the various stages of scouting Fédération Nationale du Scoutisme Marocain in addition to enhancing life skills by offering was providing direct support to poor families various scouting courses. affected by closure decisions through the contribution of members, donors and friends • Virtual Scout Camp: of scouts It is an educational and entertaining scout space, the aim of which is to make the various groups of scout sections live the camping atmosphere during the quarantine period, in order to stress the values and traditions of the Scout Movement.
• Stay-at-Home National Competition: To educate the cubs on the importance of staying at home, and to motivate them to diversify their programs so that boredom does not control them, open competitions were organized in which the participants review the various activities they practise at home, whether sports, cultural or educational, display those tapes on social media and allocate gifts and symbolic prizes.
71 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Fédération Nationale du Scoutisme Marocain
Activity Participants Participation Beneficiaries
National Blood Donation 550 Leaders/ Rovers 12 medical centers Cam-paigns
Leaders/ All Scout Virtual Scout Camp 24 1,200 members Sections
Direct awareness campaigns 800 Leaders/ Rovers 5,000 families for citi-zens
Support poor fami-lies and 400 Leaders/ Rovers 1,200 families provide foodstuff
Online training courses 32 Leaders/ Rovers 2,200 members
Stay-at-Home Na-tional 50 Cubs 125 participants Competition
Total number of activities Total number of Numerous activities beneficiaries: Total number of 9,725 beneficiaries volunteers: 1,856 volunteers
Sustainable Development Goals Achieved by Activities
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 72 ASSOCIATION DES SCOUTS ET GUIDES DE MAURITANIE
Overview
Association Des Scouts Et Guides De Mauritanie emerged in 1946, from the gate of Mauritania’s southern city of Bucky and the first national camp was held in Adjerbal Bekihdi in 1954. In 1962, it was dissolved for political reasons, and then appeared in 1978. Association Des Scouts Et Guides De Mauritanie was recognized by the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) in 1981, and became a member in the Arab Scout Region.
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 73 The efforts of the Association Des Scouts Et Guides De Mauritanie to address the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19): • Formation of scout teams. • Sanitizing and sterilizing the healthcare centres and guiding the patients. • Preparing posters and placing them in public places with their dissemination on social media. • Working on mobilization and guidance committees with civil society actors.
Types of Activities: The activities of the Association Des Scouts Et Guides De Mauritanie were as follows:
•Formation of scout teams For better readiness, the Scout and Guide Association Des Scouts Et Guides De Mauritanie has provided many on the means of prevention from covid-19 for all leaders and scouts, where it provided them with the simplest methods of prevention represented in social distancing, how to sterilize public places, and how to deliver these messages to every citizen in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. People with special needs have par- ticipated in this training.
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•Sanitizing and sterilizing the hospitals A group of rovers and scouts targeted hospitals as a vital tool providing public health service for the benefit of citizens. They collected garbage, removed sand, sterilized all rooms, offices and rooms, distributed facemasks, and urged visitors to use water, soap and sterilizers in all circumstances. This is in addition to ask each person to leave a distance of not less than a meter between himself and others to ensure health safety and successful prevention.
•Preparing posters and placing them in public places with their dissemination on social media In response to its role, the Association Des Scouts Et Guides De Mauritanie prepared dozens of posters and leaflets, and placed them in public places and at the crossroads, hospitals and markets, and distributed them to pedestrians in all parts of the Republic in order to inform them of the importance of prevention. It also distributed the statement of the General Command of the Association Des Scouts Et Guides De Mauritanie containing its action plan and preparedness to fulfill the call of the country to reach safety, in fulfillment of the principles of the Scout Movement.
This is in addition to a major awareness campaign organized through social media by placing posters and short videos on media platforms, in all the national languages used in Partners: the Republic and in sign language. • Ministry of Employment •Working on mobilization and guidance committees with civil society actors • Ministry of Youth and Sports Within its daily work and in partnership with • Health Centers civil society actors, the Association Des Scouts Et Guides De Mauritanie participated in all • Municipalities the mobilization and awareness committees that were set up at the level of each state in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. The main activities of the Association Des Scouts Et Guides De Mauritanie were based on providing logistics support, preparing lists of volunteers, distributing them according to specialization and facilitating their mission in the field. This had a great effect on all national associations and the citizens. Scouts were distinguished in their work and were constantly prepared in all circumstances.
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 75 ASSOCIATION DES SCOUTS ET GUIDES DE MAURITANIE
No. of volunteers: • The total number of volunteers for the formation of trams: 2,758 volunteers. • The number of participants for the clean-up and sterilization of hospitals: 923 volun-teers • The number of participants in the preparation of the posters and hanging them in public places with posted in social media: 1,191 volunteers • The number of participants in mobilization and awareness committees with civil society events: 644 volunteers. No. of beneficiaries: • The number of direct beneficiaries interviewed was 28,121 people. • The number of indirect beneficiaries through posters and social media was 184 people.
Sustainable Development Goals Achieved by Activities
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 76 YEMEN SCOUT ASSOCIATION
Overview
The Scout Movement began in Yemen in 1917. Yemen Scout Association was established in 1975, and obtained the membership of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) in 1980. Yemen Scout Association became a member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) in 1990.
77 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC The General Commissioner Yemen Scout Association issued a circular to the commissioners of scouts in the governorates regarding training 15 members of Scouts and Girl Guides in all parts of the directorates in the various Yemeni governorates, so that they will subsequently train awareness raising teams about the risks of the outbreak of the Covid-19.
• The training program was launched in the temporary Yemeni capital, Aden, by training 120 scouts and guides from the Association’s members, by specialists from the Ministry of Health, and at the level of each directorate, sponsored by the Ministry of Youth and Sports. The program qualified about 10,000 scout and guide members in all liberated Yemeni governorates.
• In Hadramawt governorate, identification and awareness courses was launched on the risks of the outbreak of the Covid-19, for 15 scout leaders and guides from the Mukalla District. These leaders will train members of their scouting teams on how to prevent the Covid-19 and benefit from these leaders in delivering the awareness messages through their scouting teams in the directorate to raise the degree health awareness of Covid-19.
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• Yemen Scout Association issued a call to citizens throughout the Republic to start home quarantine procedures, calling on local police forces to monitor quarantine and provide it for those without a home.
•The Scouts and Girl Guides Commission in Al-Mahra Governorate carried out a cleaning and sterilization campaign for the Prisons Authority, where the campaign included cleaning the prison yard from residues and sterilizing prisoner’s wards and bathrooms with disinfectants, in order to protect prisoners from diseases and protect them from the Covid-19, and urging prisoners to maintain hygiene to prevent and avoid various diseases, including the risks of Covid-19, which has swept the world.
• Yemen Scout Association called all quarrelling and fighting forces to stop the war and focus on combating this fatal disease and support staff working at the health and • The Mansoura Scouts and Guides medical sector. Commission, in Aden, carried out an awareness campaign about Covid-19 by • The Yemeni Scouts and Guides Commission posting awareness leaflets about the risks in the Radfan District, Lahj Governorate, of Covid-19, as well as verbally educating carried out an awareness campaign about citizens, and also by publishing awareness Covid-19, methods of prevention, and the brochures in the Mansoura district - Aden. nature of home quarantine, which targets the various directorates of the governorate. They • And in the city of Habilian, the General focused on the importance of submission Commissioner of the Association of Scouts and adherence to precautionary measures to and Girl Guides participated in a cleaning avoid any spread of Covid-19. campaign for the public street in the city as part of the volunteer and awareness efforts • The Scouts and Girl Guides Commission to confront Covid-19. in Al-Mahra governorate implemented an awareness and educational campaign in Al- • In Taiz, Abyan, Shabwah, and Seiyun Total number Ghaydah Market and Al-Juhi area, where governorates, introductory training courses of volunteering awareness brochures were distributed to were held for the Covid-19, targeting more hours: citizens and posters were placed in gathering than 100 scouts and guides, as they were places and public markets, educating citizens distributed in the field to carry out volunteer 240,000 hours about the dangers of the Covid-19 pandemic, work, support official efforts, enhance and urging them to take caution and beware health awareness, and contain and manage Total number of of the virus that has swept various countries emergency cases. volunteers: of the world. 10,000 volunteers
79 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC YEMEN SCOUT ASSOCIATION
Total number of volunteering hours: 240,000 hours Total number of volunteers: 10,000 volunteers
Sustainable Development Goals Achieved by Activities
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 80 OUTCOME OF THE EFFORTS OF ARAB SCOUT ORGANIZATIONS IN ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN CONFRONTING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Seven months after the outbreak of covid-19 pandemic, the Arab Scout Organizations through
the efforts of scout members worked hard to reduce catastrophic pandemic impact . They have
done a lot in response to their scout promise and duty toward their nations and communities.
This, again, proved the scout movement commitment and its readiness to intervene during the
crises and disasters that our communities may face.
The following results have been achieved in 19 different Arab Scout Organizations:
13 Sustainable Development Goals
199 Partners of success
34,068 Community activities
110,928 Volunteers
6,025,627 Volunteering hours Beneficiaries 11,066,975
The numbers mentioned in the report are approximate, based on what we received from the Arab Scout Organizations
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Partners of success
Community activities
Volunteers
Volunteering hours
Beneficiaries
REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 82 THANKS TO THE ARAB SCOUT DOCTORS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE ARAB SCOUT MOVEMENT
In recognition of their honor and testimony of their right, we say:
«The White Arab Army»
On the occasion of preparing this report, we recognise and appreciate the role of medical scout leaders, who were always ready as scouts and active citizens, holding their promise and scouting values, hand in hand with all their fellow medical teams across the globe, serving us during the pandemic, working as the front line to support the health systems. An inspiration and the greatest role models for the youth and scouts.
Thank you from the heart...
83 REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC REPORT ON ARAB SCOUTING’S EFFORTS IN CONFRONTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 84 World Organization of the Scout Movement Arab Support Office Arab Scout Orgnization October 2020
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