Issue No. 46, February - April 2016 KuduMail News from the Africa Scout Region www.scout.org/africa [email protected] Online Registration for the 7th Africa Scout Jamboree is Open Find us on SOCIAL MEDIA ScoutingintheAfricaRegion @ScoutingAfrica Africa Scout Region +AfricaScoutRegion Africa Scout Region Click on the Link Below to SUBSCRIBE to our Monthly Editions of KUDUMAIL We have launched the online registration platform for the 7th Africa Scout Jamboree that will http://goo.gl/forms/cQZhGPuQTzRg2j6H2. take place from 1-10 August 2016 in Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire. All participants registering to attend must be 12-17 years old at the time of the event. If you are 18 or older, you are invited to join the International Service Team (IST) (volunteer staff). Every participant, IST and Contingent Staff must be registered on the respective forms by the Contingent Leader appointed by the NSO (Country). The forms can be accessed and completed from the following links: About KUDUMAIL Kudumail – the e-newsletter of the Africa Contingent Summary Form: https://www.scout.org/eform/submit/7asj2016-contin- Scout Region has been in circulation since gent-summary#overlay-context=eform/submit/ October 2011. It was launched with an objective to improve newsgathering and Participants’ Registration Form: https://www.scout.org/eform/submit/7asj-partici- dissemination in order to reach out to pants-registration-f#overlay-context=eform/submit/ stakeholders more effectively with the Scouting message. Contingent Staff & International Service Team Registration Form: https://www.scout.org/ eform/submit/7th-africa-scout-jamboree-contin#overlay-context=eform/submit/ The name is inspired by the Kudu – a type of antelope found in Africa. It is also This platform allows entry of details of each member individually but should be used from a symbolic in the sense that when Baden central point where the Head of Contingent can monitor all people registering from their country. Powell started the first experimental camp If by any chance your NSO is not able to use the online registration platform, please contact the on Brownsea Island back in 1907, he blew a JOC or the Africa Support Centre and we will provide you with an alternative in the form of a Kudu horn to herald a new beginning – the Microsoft Excel sheet. birth of the Scout Movement. Please be reminded that registration for the jamboree and the payment of fees, must be sent Kudumail serves as a ‘portable’ information no later than 30th June 2016 to the Jamboree organizing committee. Each country may register material that can serve both those who have only one contingent. and those who do not have access to internet. This is important as the The Organizing Committee of the 7ASJ has also released the Jamboree Bulletin No 2. In this overall objective of Kudumail is to contribute bulletin, NSOs, Contingent Leaders, International Service Team members and participants will to the development of Scouting in Africa find useful information relating to: registration and fee payment, visas and arrival information, through raising awareness. Kudumail is also how to organize a jamboree contingent, IST updates, safe from harm training and risk a platform for exchange on our activities, management, jamboree programme and life in the sub camps. You can download a copy at: potentials, successes, challenges and https://www.scout.org/sites/default/files/news_files/7ASJ%20Bulletin%202%20-%20EN.pdf opportunities. To have your stories published here please send us your story with 3 high resoultion action photographs to [email protected]. INVEST IN THE FUTURE OF AFRICA: JOIN THE AFRICA SCOUT FOUNDATION Donations are vital in helping Scouts help others. Your contributions will go towards ensuring the sustainbality of a wide variety of programmes and projects that enable millions of young people in Africa to learn and develop skills useful for personal growth and community service. For more information on becoming a member of the Africa Scout Foundation, visit www.scout.org/africascoutfoundation or email [email protected]. Kudumail, Issue No. 46 February - April 2016 Founder’s Day: Celebrating the Legacy Scouts of Goma Mark Founders Day of a Great Idea by Donating Blood As part of the celebration to mark Founders Day February 22, the Scouts of Goma decided to donate blood to the holding blood bank at the Provincial Blood Transfusion Center in Goma. The blood center moved to the Scout office in Goma with staff and equipment. In the process, 72 pints of blood were donated by the Scouts. This would be given by the hospital, which suffers occasional blood shortage, to help those who need. Under this successful humanitarian operation, the Goma Scouts have decided to organize this operation regularly as part of their contribution to saving lives of the sick people in need of blood transfusion. Scouts Mark Africa Scout Day Across the Region The Africa Scout Day is celebrated on 13th March every year. Usually, a country is selected to host the main celebrations where participants gather form different countries. This year the main celebrations took place in Accra, Ghana. This however did not prevent Scouts from hosting similar celebrations in their own Scout groups, towns and countries. These are some of the stories on how Scouts marked this Over the weekend between 19th and 22nd February, Scouts all over very important day across the region. the world gathered in different places to commemorate the would be 159th birthday of Lord Baden Powell and 129th birthday of Lady Olave Namibia: Cubs, Scouts and Rovers of the 1st Tsumeb Group undertook Baden Powell. This day, usually celebrated on 22nd February every year a Coin-Lay activity on Africa Scout Day to raise money for the Africa is known as Founders’ Day and World Thinking Day by Scouts and Girl Scout Foundation. This activity was as per a resolution adopted at Guides respectively. the 16th Africa Scout Conference that encouraged African Scouts to contribute to the Africa Scout Foundation in their own means. Around The Scouts in the Africa Region were not left behind in the celebrations. USD60 was raised in two hours simply by placing coins of various Under the regional theme of “Celebrating the Legacy of a Great Idea” denominations on a silhouette of the World Scout emblem. The 1st Scouts took part in numerous camping events and community Tsumeb Scout Group has been doing this for the past two years and will service activities. The theme sought to make as many people as make it an annual tradition. This is a good way to encourage Scouts and possible understand who Baden Powell was and remind us of his idea Scout Groups to contribute to the Africa Scout Foundation in their own when he founded the Scout movement on Brownsea Island in little ways. We hope it can inspire many more Scout groups to do the August 1907 that “nothing is impossible for those who are prepared same. to play their part in creating a better world.” It is also a reminder that as Scouts, we should stand to be counted on to inspire change in our Madagascar: A local Unit #223 of the Tily Eto Madagasikara in the East- communities. ern District celebrated their 15th anniversary on Scouting during the Africa Scout Day on 13 March 2016. They held an anniversary The staff of the Africa Support Centre, joined the Scouts and Guides of ceremony and donated books to the Library of the Presbyterian Church Kenya and others from Japan, Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands, of Isoavina Ambanitsena’s College while promoting Scouting through Norway among other guests in Nyeri for the celebrations. a round table discussion on the topic: “Scouting - A Youth Education System” In Ethiopia, the Scouts partnered with the Ethiopian Red Cross Society to donate blood for local hospitals and conducting community service In Kenya, the Scouts of Alliance Girls High School in Kiambu held an activities. The same happened in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo exchange programme with Scouts from other schools around and had where the Scouts donated 72 pints of blood to the Provincial Blood discussions on various developmental issues. While in Zambia, the Transfusion Centre. In Zimbabwe, the Scouts held a Scouts Scouts paraded on the streets of Lusaka to create awareness about commemorated the day by holding a Scouts Own service. In Benin, Scouting. the young people hosted a training in dialogue sessions where they discussed the role of education in promoting dialogue among youth. The 2017 Africa Scout Day celebrations will be hosted by the Tanzania In Ivory Coast, the Scouts spent the day doing community service by Scout Association in Arusha. cleaning churches and mosques. In Niger, the Scouts held a celebration which culminated with an evening campfire session. In his Founder’s Day address in Nyeri, Frederic Tutu Kama-Kama, the Regional director said, “The Africa Scout Region takes pride in being the last home and the final resting place of Lord Baden Powell and his wife, Lady Olave Baden-Powell, who are both buried here in Nyeri, where we are today. As such we have a great legacy to protect. Let us be inspired by the life of this great couple whose ideas and vision continues to transform the world many years after their death.” This was an echo to the joint statement issued by the the Chairpersons of the World Associations of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, which read in part, “…for World Thinking Day and Founder’s Day 2016, on the day when we celebrate the joint birthday of our Founders, Lord and Lady Baden- P owell, we encourage you to take a moment to reflect on the vision that Baden-Powell described so passionately; that we reconfirm our commitment to bringing together young people united in peace and friendship, that we support each other, working in a spirit of collaboration to ensure as many young people as possible are able to benefit from the opportunities that being members of our two global organizations can provide.” 2 - News from the Africa Scout Region © World Scout Bureau Africa Support Centre Kudumail, Issue No.