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World Scout Foundation Keeping Promises Keeping Promises World Scout Foundation A n n u a l R e p o r t 2 0 0 7 Keeping Promises 2007 has been a wonderful year for the world’s 28 million Scouts! The Centenary Year has been a celebration of 100 years of fun, energy and excellence, and also has given us all - Scouts young and old - an opportunity The Scout Promise reflect on the impact of Scouting through the years. When they join, Scouts the world over make a personal Promise to do their best for their community, for their God and for themselves. In the following pages we look at how this personal Promise, taken by Scouts the world over, On my honour I promise has changed lives and transformed communities. Your contributions to the World Scout that I will do my best Foundation have helped many more young people in a greater number of countries have the opportunity to join To do my duty to God Scouting and enjoy this life-changing experience. As you read these pages, and my Country; please imagine the impact you will have, in the years to come, as even To help other people at more new Scouts take their Promise and, thanks to you, follow the all times; examples described in these pages. How their lives, their communities To obey the Scout Law. and the world will change for the better! Your contributions have truly made a difference! Thank you! Lars Kolind Chairman World Scout Foundation Annual Report 2007 1 The sunrise on Scouting “We saw on TV how it started in Australia and moved with the sun towards us. I could almost feel it!” explained Irish B-P Fellow Silvia Tennant. “It was wonderful to be with Scouts and their families on this special day. This was reality. They’ll always remember The King of Sweden visiting their camp, and we’ll always remember Walton Firs campsite, 8am, Sunday 1st August how great it is to see Scouting in action. It 2007: a young Scout, Kerry Pert, blew the recharges my batteries. It gives me more hope traditional kudo horn to call 450 Scouts from and confidence in the future. We’ve just been to the county of Surrey, in England, to gather with the World Jamboree, where we saw that Scouting some very special guests to renew their Scout really works, 100 years on. But, perhaps even Promise. Kerry was nervous because among his more impressive - here in this small, local Scout guests was The King of Sweden and 150 Baden- campsite, away from the TV cameras and the big Powell Fellows and local dignitaries. Kerry did investments, Scouting works just as well. well, he blew a note true and clear, just like Robert Baden-Powell had done exactly one “Just imagine, all around the world at this very hundred years before - to the minute – to open moment, 28 million young Scouts, and many the first Scout camp, and launch the worldwide millions more older Scouts like myself are movement. renewing their promises as part of the Centenary celebrations – all those young people believe Kerry then invited WSF Board member Derek they will change the world – and we Baden- Pollard to lead the assembly in renewing their Powell Fellows will support them. Scouting is Scout Promise: “On my honour, I promise...” such a force for good in this world!” 2 World Scout Foundation Annual Reporr 2007 ‹ Scouting is such a force for good in this world › A Scout is a friend to all . ‹ The camp was made up of citizens of the world › Shocked by the horrors of World War I, even This first World Scout Jamboree amazed all Baden-Powell’s dream was to be put to the test the battle-hardened former general, Robert observers – because it worked! To this day once again. And how well it worked! Baden-Powell, was convinced that only Scout Jamborees are the world’s only regular young people could re-establish dialogue and event bringing together so many young people This Jamboree was fun and exciting – there friendship between former enemies of the from so many countries. were smiles all round - but it also presented battle fields of Europe. So he called for Scouts opportunities to learn about the challenges everywhere to come together in London in Sadly, wars continue and this need is even facing young people the world over, and to live 1920 for a “jamboree” – part camp and part greater today, so when 40,000 Scouts from 156 some of the solutions: Israeli Scouts camped youth festival. countries gathered in the United Kingdom for next to Palestinian Scouts, Scouts from the USA the 21st World Scout Jamboree in August 2007, danced together with Scouts from Saudi Arabia. 4 World Scout Foundation Annual Report 2007 Soriah, a young Girl Scout from Pakistan was amazed: “I see the whole world in this field! It’s incredible! Look how well we all get on together … imagine how it will be when we all go home – we will be able to tell our friends and our families that we can get on together – we don’t need to be suspicious of others – the world can change!” “It was amazing,” says Patrick, a young Swiss Baden-Powell Fellow, and staff member on the Jamboree : “On the first day, Scouts were neatly turned out in their own national uniforms – but by the closing ceremony, having exchanged shirts, neckerchiefs, hats and badges, the camp was made up of citizens of the world – “rainbow Scouts” – their mixed up uniforms on the outside a testament to the learning on the inside! 40,000 young people went home ready for action!” Robert Baden-Powell was right – bring young people together and they can overcome event the most impenetrable barriers! Ten million promises kept! In late 2001, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia challenged Scouts worldwide to work for peace in a world where people were moving further apart. The leaders of World Scouting launched a programme called Gifts for Peace. The idea really took off. Gifts for Peace became the most successful action ever conducted by Scouts throughout the world. An estimated 10 million Scouts in 120 countries have reported their Gifts for Peace to World Scouting. In February 2008 King Abdullah invited The King of Sweden to Riyadh to celebrate the success of the Gifts for Peace campaign and to discuss how to continue into the future. They considered reports which described how Scouts have truly kept their promises – in 110 countries - they have made significant impact in the communities in which they have worked for peace – from Rwanda/Burundi, where a single Scout leader began a programme in which Hutus and Tutsis have worked together in Scout programmes to rebuild trust between their communities, or in Lebanon, where tens of thousands of Scouts have helped to rebuild their communities, or in New Orleans where thousands of Scouts continue to do service to support communities in areas recovering from the hurricane Katrina disaster. ‹ They are changing the World › 6 World Scout Foundation Annual Report 2007 The two Heads of State jointly sponsored an exhibition by award-winning photographer Yoshi Shimizu, whose powerful black and white photos document eight Gifts for Peace. The exhibition was ‹ Keeping the Promise supported by Hewlett Packard and began its round the world tour in Riyadh and is travelling to other of Gifts for Peace › cities in the months to come. Gifts for Peace will not end in 2007. Most of the initiatives taken by Scouts are long term commitments to action. His Majesty King Abdullah pledged significant ongoing financial support. And of course the message of peace is to be shared around the world as the photo exhibition travels from country to country. The photo exhibit, and the 64-page Gifts for Peace Report are available on a CD. Paper copies of the 64- page report are also available. These ten million Scouts have taken a solemn promise and, in their Gifts for Peace, they have shown they intend to fulfill it. They are changing the world! World Scout Foundation Annual Report 2007 7 UK: I promise to do my duty to God “As we entered the holy mosque and set eyes on the “Scouting is all about giving young people helped have one common theme: they were lost in a blessed Ka’bah in Mecca, I was overwhelmed with challenging and adventurous opportunities. This sea of literally millions of people, and then they saw a emotion and started crying,” said Scout Ahmed when helps us more fully understand our religion and the familiar sight – a young man in a Scout uniform, like he was interviewed on BBC television. world,” explained Ahmed. “I hope to go again. The they see at home, or like they were once themselves Saudi Scouts made it special because they invited us. – and they knew they were safe. He was one of 25 British Scouts, aged 14-25, who We had a true sense of the family of Scouting across made the Hajj to Mecca for the first time. Coming cultures and languages.” “I’ve never seen so many people together. Millions! from all over England, they are the first British Scouts We were amazed what a big role the Saudi Scouts to perform the Hajj as a group. Every Muslim tries Each year over 4,500 Saudi Scouts work long hours play in the Hajj by manning information points, to make this Holy Pilgrimage at least once in their for the ten-day Hajj. This is the single largest annual guiding pilgrims, taking lost ones back to their tents, lifetime.
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