Scouting is a worldwide Movement with over 30 million in 160 countries. International is aimed at creating an understanding of other cultures as well as promoting peace and tolerance through our common understanding of the Scouting Aims and Principles. "When you join a Patrol you become part of a worldwide brotherhood in which every member has promised to keep the Law. Because of this it doesn't matter if they speak different languages, are HOST Families needed Urgently for Danish of different colours or hold different religious beliefs. Venturers When you meet Scouts at large gatherings, remember that they are your brothers and show by is expecting approx. 20 Danes to your actions that you regard them as friends." arrive from 27th June and depart by 5th August  Lord Robert Baden‐Powell, Founder 2016. Qld did a fantastic job in Hosting last year and need help again in placing some of these Scouting Danish Scouts during this time. They are all of

Venturer age and ideally need a Host Brother/Sister in Venturers. This group mainly 15th consists of girls with only 4 boys applying this The 15th World Scout Moot will be in year from . They will be part of your Family during this time and will also need to go th nd Iceland from July 25 to August 2 to School and Venturers with you. They are 2017. The Moot will bring up to 500 here to experience the Australian Culture as young adults 18‐26yrs together part of a Cultural Exchange. http://worldscoutmoot.is/ For more information, please contact the Qld Applications open August 2016 SISEP Co-ordinator, Scott Edwards at [email protected]

New Zealand

Applications are opening soon for the 21st New Zealand Jamboree to be held over the 2016‐17 Summer Holidays. Keep an eye onhttp://auscontingenttonz21.com.au so you don’t miss out on this opportunity!

operating in the Swiss Alps welcoming volunteer workers National Organisation of Russian and guests. Join the pilgrimage taken by many Australian Scouts who have gone to volunteer as a “pinkie” running Scouts 2016 Jamboree the World Scout Centre. Members over 18 years of age are encouraged find out more about working at A unique opportunity to attend the Kandersteg International Scout Centre for the upcoming National Organisation of Russian Autumn 2016 and Winter 2017 Seasons. Scouts 2016 has been received. Interested members should contact the International Interested participants should find out Commissioner at an early stage to receive a considered reference to improve their chances. The Think Pink more information Brochureoutlines more information on staff here http://www.jamboree.ru It opportunities. should be noted that Australia is not Those who have been staff at Kandersteg often say it officially sending a Contingent, but was the best time of their lives and it has changed them will support prospective attendees. forever.

International Scouting

At the request of the Asia Pacific Regional (APR) Office, is playing a critical role in helping to prepare the Myanmar Scout Association, and of Timor Leste, for membership of the Venturer Scouts looking to gain advanced leadership and Organisation of the World Scout Movement practical event management skills as well as the chance to network with others from around Australia are invited to (WOSM). Our assistance includes strategic apply for the Mawson Scholarship in Leadership. The exciting and challenging week long course will be held in planning workshops, while working closely with NSW in July and Western Australia in September. Apply the APR Office. If successful with their quickly as applications close on the Friday 18th March at the registration page. applications, Myanmar and Timor Leste will receive their membership at the next World

Scout Conference, scheduled for August 2017. International Exchanges with SISEP ‐ 2016 Scouts Australia is looking forward to what will Applications Closing Soon no doubt be a big celebration and a big An international exchange is the welcome to World Scouting’s new members. experience of a lifetime! The Scouts International Student Exchange Program (SISEP) provides Kandersteg International Scout Centre Venturer Scouts (16‐17 years of age) with the Every year opportunity to experience a around 80 Scouts different way of life by spending from over 40 their summer holidays with a countries Scouting family in Denmark, volunteer at England or . Applications for Kandersteg the 2016‐17 program close on 1 International April 2016. SISEP also allows Scout Centre and Australian Scouting families to return home host students for 6‐8 weeks in richer. For over winter. Applications to participate 90 years, a mini as a host family are invited from Permanent families who have a son or Jamboree Site daughter in Scouts or Venturer has been Scouts. Further details are available [email protected] . An Australian Branch is coordinating an appeal from ambitious SISEP program with Indonesia Scouts will now to the end of March to support the most also be announced shortly. severely affected groups in Fiji as determined by their National HQ. Other Australian Branches are being invited to participate. Please consider 2017 donating as a Group/Unit/Crew/Section or running National a special program night with youth/families in Rover support of this appeal. Moot ‐ The Donations can be paid into the following account: Moot Bank Name: Commonwealth Bank of Australia The next BSB: 065 000 National Account No: 1203 3492 Rover Moot “The Moot” is coming this summer, and Account Name: The Scouts Association of Australia it’s going to be bigger and better than ever! Join us SA Branch in Victoria for 11 days of fun and adventure from Reference: Fiji Cyclone 27th December 2016 to 6th January 2017. Moots, like other national events, are a great opportunity Thank you for your anticipated support and we look for Rover Scouts around the country and the world forward to raising some well needed funds to to connect with each other, form life‐long support our brother and sister scouts in Fiji to friendships, learn more about themselves, and have rebuild after Cyclone Winston's devastation. an amazing time. Applications are now open for all young adult members aged 18‐26, and staff positions. Costs to Yours in Scouting attend The Moot are $895 for participants and $650 Greg Warnes 0401 149 458 for staff (Note: this cost does not include expedition Branch Commissioner International cost of contingent fees to attend the event). For Scouts Australia, South Australian Branch more information on the applications process visit our website TheMoot.com.au. Make sure you sign up to our newsletter to receive regular updates on what is happening.

Fiji Cyclone Appeal

As you are aware, Fiji was recently hit by a devastating cyclone which affected much of the north and west of the main island Viti Levu and other islands. South Australian Branch has a strong association with the Fiji Scouts Association and we have launched an appeal to raise much needed funds to support severely affected scout groups. I would be very pleased if your Branch agreed to support and promote this appeal. Please consider this request and seek the support of your Branch Chief Commissioner/Executive Officer to promote via your Branch communication channels. Please don’t hesitate to contact me should you require any further information…..

Fiji Cyclone Appeal The recent cyclone to hit Fiji has caused widespread devastation to many parts of the country. South

Guides and Scouts have for instance a chance to do Guiding/Scouting activities in real woods – safety taking naturally into account. The area of Evo will offer good opportunities also to water activities, being placed in proximity of several lakes. There are several joint activities for the whole camp as well, such as the opening and closing ceremonies ‐ and of course a big campfire, a roihu. IN THE RUN‐UP TO THE FINNJAMBOREE, The 31st Asia Pacific Regional Scout Jamboree will NEWSLETTERS WILL BE PUBLISHED WITH be held in Mongolia between 27 July ‐ 2 August INFORMATION TO PREPARE FOR THE ROIHU 2016! 2017. The theme is "Go Nomad" and offers a unique The most important and urgent information for scouting opportunity. international visitors will be available through our international newsletter. It's a must for anyone and For Scouts aged 12½ to 17 years (at the start of the everyone planning on traveling to Finland and Jamboree), both boys and girls. IST members over joining us on the Jamboree. 18 years. Meet 6,000 Scouts from Mongolia, countries of the How to Join Asia Pacific Region, and from across the world. You can subscribe to the newsletter by registering Learn about the fascinating and unique Mongolian yourself (and your group) culture, history and nomadic lifestyle. viahttp://roihu2016.fi/join‐finnjamboree/ Activities include craft, hiking, orienteering, traditional games, songs and dances, riding horses and camels, archery, and putting up a ger (traditional tent).

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS IN

AUSTRALIA Home hospitality for all youth members. Email [email protected] for more details. WHAT IS ROIHU?

Have you been camping in real woods? Roihu is the must‐see summer camp of 15 000 Scouts and Being part of a world‐wide brother and sisterhood is Guides in the forest! Roihu 2016 is the 7th really exciting. You don’t have to leave Australia to International Finnjamboree organised by the Guides feel part of it. You can participate in international and Scouts of Finland. The camp starts on July 20th Scouting right here at home! There are plenty of 2016 and ends on July 28th 2016. options, and here are just a few ideas:  Messengers of Peace ‐ this initiative from The camp will be run in three languages: World Scouting inspires Scouts to take local English,Finnish and Swedish. All participants will in action in their communities so that they have a program of their own age group: trackers can create a better world! (12‐15 year olds), explorers (15‐17) and rovers (18‐  Integrate International Scouting into your 22). The activities will take place in “valleys” where weekly or camp program ‐ our favourites in

hosting an 'Around the World Night', and an stages. The first stage is a journey with small units of 'International Cooking Night'. Check out our Scouts‐Guides making their way to the main camp. resources for leaders! Each path is different and the themes range from  SISEP (Scout International Student Exchange cultural excursions to forest hikes. The second stage Program) – Why not host a Scout from is a camp which lasts for the rest of the event and overseas? where all path tribes come together on the camp.  JOTA & JOTI – Meet and talk to Scouts from all over the world, either over the or using radios.  Host Corp‐ You can get involved by being a generous host to these people by joining the Host Corp Team. Register today.  Pen‐Pal Program ‐ write, email,Skype, and keep in contact with a Scout from another country. Exchange ideas without leaving Australia. We match whole Mobs, Packs, and Troops. Get started ! We're very excited to share some great news with  Have some more ideas on International you! activities? Got a great activity that you ran at your ScOutPost, the space used for communication Group/Mob/Pack/Troop/Unit/Crew? Have among World Scout Youth Forum participants, is you already mapped some international now officially replaced by the Youth Wall! This is a activities against your Section Award vibrant space for discussions, that works all through Scheme? Please email them to us so we can the triennium! here, Youth Advisors to the World include them here for everyone else to use Scout Committee will share regular updates about their work, but will also open up a broader space for discussions about youth involvement in our Movement. The Youth Wall is a space where we can build value, knowledge and engage in World Scouting issues and decision‐making processes! Sounds interesting? Then join us for future debates and voice your opinion here, on scout.org, or on our FB page athttps://www.facebook.com/scoutsyouthwall

Roverway 2016 ‐ Roverway is a joint European WAGGGS and WOSM event for 16 – 22 year old Rover Scouts and Guides from Europe and all over the world. Roverway is a 9 day event that includes activities and camping.

Roverway brings together more than 3,000 rovers The Scouts of the World Award challenges all young and rangers from all over the world and is the event people aged 15-26, Scouts and non-Scouts, to reflect that you don’t want to miss! The event was upon global issues and act upon them locally! introduced in 2003 and consists usually of two

Join thousands of Scouts around the world in exploring Over time, the World Organisation of the Scout global challenges and acting on them locally through Movement has developed partnerships with a number of The Scouts of the World Award. United Nations organisations, particularly those related to young people and the environment.

Scouts Australia is pleased to promote these Be part of the #SWAward programme here - partnerships and is already supporting the UN with its https://www.facebook.com/scoutsoftheworldawa environmental program. rd The UN partners can be found on the WOSM website (www.scout.org) under Partners. There are also some More info at www.scout.org/scoutsoftheworld ideas in the Youth Program section. You may like to consider putting your Scouting training and ideals into practice by volunteering to work for a United Nations project overseas. This could provide you with the experience of a lifetime, qualifications in Rover Scouts and the Scouts of the World Award, and perhaps great skills for your future career. It would also support the World Scouts Partnerships program. While you would be volunteering as an individual, as Kandersteg Expedition Scouts Australia generally does not have the resources to th th 26 June – 10 July 2016 ,12‐ 25 yrs + adult leaders provide financial or other support, working for the Contact Contingent leader Gary Steinhardt for more United Nations is a great way to take your Scouting skills information to places where young people are in great need. [email protected] The United Nations Volunteers website is www.unv.org.

Please let us know if you are considering volunteering with the UN by contacting Graeme Fordham, National Project Commissioner ‐ Partnerships, on [email protected]

The International Explorer Award The award is a belt and buckle that can be worn in 24th ‐ July, 2019, West place of the uniform belt. This award canbe earned Virginia, by any registered member of Scouts Australia who travels to an Officially recognized International Scouting event overseas and participates in two of the following activities: 1.Service ( minimum4 hours) 2.Camping (minimum 1 night) 3. Training ( minimum 1 complete day) 4. Attend at least three meetings ( minimum 3 hours) Upon return from overseas, the candidate is required to complete at least 3 reports or presentations. SCOUTING AND THE UNITED Host Families and Host Corp Team NATIONS

For information on being a host family and and how Hands Across The Water Program () you can experience International Scouting contact [email protected] Sandra Hemming,Queensland Coordinator [email protected] If you would like to know more about what is happening internationally in Scouting or would like to participate in an overseas event, visit Scouts Australia’s Website at www.international.scouts.com.au and it will open up many more links for you to explore? If you have International stories and pictures to International Pen Pal Program share , or require further International information please contact Paul Rollason, BC International, via For information on how you can become a Pen Pal Branch or E‐Mail contact Susan Rogers at [email protected] or visit the [email protected] Queensland website at www.scoutsqld.com.au and click on “Events” and then “International”. See the exciting events we have in the Asia‐ What are you waiting for???? GET INVOLVED NOW Pacific Region. and ENJOY.

2016 9th National Scout Jamborre Jaffna 20th‐26th February 2016 Sri Lanka Kandersteg Expedition 26th June – 10th July 2016 Finnjamborre July 20th‐July 27th 2016 Finland 2017 15th World scout Moot Iceland 2019 24th World Scout Jamboree North America ( ,USA,Mexico)

In Closing Being part of a world‐wide brother and sisterhood is really exciting. You don’t have to leave Australia to feel part of it. You can participate in international Scouting right here at home! There are plenty of options, and here are just a few ideas: SISEP (Scout International Student Exchange Program) –Scott Edwards SISEP Coordinator Queensland [email protected] Host families and Host Corp Team‐ Sandra Hemming ,Queensland Coordinator [email protected] JOTA & JOTI – Albert Shelley‐ Queensland Coordinator [email protected] International Pen‐Pal Program –Susan Rogers Queensland Coordinator [email protected]