Scouting About NewsfromtheSouthAfricanScoutAssociation. www.scouting.org.za 0860SCOUTS Winter2008 51stJOTA/12thJOTI Jamboreeonthe Air-JamboreeontheInternet 18/19 October 2008. Once again, Scouting throughout the world will be in contact with one another on this weekend. Scout Groups should contact a friendly amateur radio ham to be able to take part in this World Wide Scouting Radio contact with brother and sister Scouts in other parts of SouthAfrica and the rest of the world. Maybe you have Internet available for the JOTI link. Investigate the VHF radio link, an Internet-based voice technology that allows for the integration of the internet and amateur radio, enabling high-quality communications to almost anywhere in the world, whether the stations on either side use PCs or handheld radios. Go to: www.scout.org/jota 22ndWORLDJAMBOREE CONGRATULATIONS SWEDEN SPRINGBOKSCOUT AWARDS What are you doing in summer 2011? Going to the World Scout Jamboree! The 22nd World Scout Jamboree will be held in Sweden during the northern Summer of 2011. This will be the first World Scout Jamboree to be held in the new Scouting The South Africa Scout Association will Jennifer-AnneDavies - Gauteng Century and with 30 000 scouts from once again be sending a contingent of LukeHutchinson - Gauteng VictoriaMarsh - Gauteng around the world expected to attend this Scouts as well as International Support will be the event of a lifetime. CassandraBillowes - Gauteng Staff to this great event. More LeeCroeser - WesternCape World Scout Jamborees are special information will soon be available SimonGoemans - WesternCape events. It brings together the youth of the through the Provincial offices as well as PhilipGaag - WesternCape world from almost all countries on this the website. Faizel Achmat - WesternCape planet. JonathanBandli - WesternCape JonathanGlass - WesternCape “CLEANUPTHEWORLD ” CAMPAIGNE Luis-RicardoMartin - WesternCape BradleySmith- WesternCape Brian February, our International the World that we are serious about Aakefa Abrahams - WesternCape Commissioner, endorses the the condition of our planet on which suggestions of Troop Scouter, Nolan we live. NaeemaSadien - WesternCape van de Merwe and asks that every Groups, Districts and Provincial LlewellynMylroie - WesternCape Scout Group in the country take part in Areas are asked to report their DavidHallendorf - Gauteng this most necessary exercise, which is activities, with photos and writeups so part of the fight against Climate to: SILVERPROTEA Change. Details on page 3. RogerMaggs - CentralProvince Nolan suggests that Scouting South SAHQ,P.O.Box2434Clareinch7740 Forlongandoutstandingservicetothe Africa embrace this project with oronemail: movement. vigour, in our Centenary year, to show [email protected] .za We have, for example, a most We have our own fathers and mothers, DUTYTOGOD significant expression of this in the grandfathers and grandmothers, but opening words of the age-old Lord's they too are but children of the Father Prayer, said daily by millions of made, like you and everyone else, in Christians throughout the world. the spiritual image of the Great Father of all, for all of us are tiny sparks of His OurFather, Divine Flame. WhoartinHeaven... Baden-Powell fully realized all this Thispiecewaswrittenby OUR FATHER! Not his Father or her when he wrote the 4th point of the VicClaphamandappearedin Father, or your Father or my Father, but Scout Law; “A Scout is a friend to all, “VeldLore ” in1979.How OUR Father! This is nothing less than a and a brother to every other Scout, no appropriateitisinthepresenttime most profound and complete matter to what country, class or creed inourbelovedcountry? declaration acknowledging the the other may belong ”. universal brotherhood of man. In this world of galloping greed and OUR FATHER Where is Heaven? Whatever faith you selfishness, hate and violence, In this centenary year of Scouting in may follow, you are taught very clearly Scouting continues to uphold the South Africa, and in many other that Heaven is within you. And in principle of brotherhood. The more countries around the world, let us saying the six opening words of the vicious the world may get all around have yet another look at the ideal of Lord's Prayer, you acknowledge and us, the more important it is that we rise world brotherhood that unites us all. declare the universal brotherhood of above it all, keep our faith, and love However they might differ in various man, and the existence within you of and serve our brothers and sisters in respects, all of the great religions, in the tiny spark of God that makes you thought word and deed. Difficult teachings and in prayers, and all mankind the children of the one sometimes? Yes of course! It is only in acknowledge the universal Living Father. the overcoming of such difficulties that brotherhood of man as, too, they Thus we can realize that irrespective of we can give expression to the spark of acknowledge that there is but one our ethnic roots or religion, we are all God within each of us. The triumph is in Supreme Being. members of the vast human family. the overcoming. GREENINGOURHOMES With the dire situation with regard to Sure, energy is anything that makes switch and things in your area stop energy in our country, and in fact, the things work. Eating food gives us working, we sit in the dark until a world, Scout Leaders should be in the energy. The suns energy (heat) makes candle is lit. forefront of training our Scouts and our food grow. Wind energy makes Now, if everyone in the country, Cubs to regard any wastage of energy waves in the ocean and drives a yacht beginning with you, used just a little in their homes, whether by along. Petrol and diesel oil, when burnt, less energy in our homes, our themselves, their family or even their makes our cars and busses go. electricity generators would be able Rushing water is the energy to make to cope and our area would not have family maids, as important as littering turbines produce electricity. Nuclear to be switched off, so that other in the street or any other anti-social energy and coal make people could share what energy our behavior. most of the OFF country has left. Scout Law 9 A Scout is thrifty. “Thrifty ” a word most young people ASE SWITCHRS PLE r: GEYSE supplie have difficulty in understanding, let YOUR power alone putting into practice. “Do not ESKOM ourhe most electricity waste - money time food don't tear So asks consume t Geysers your clothes etc. as they will have to seholds. hem be replaced and cost your folks in hou ch off our geysersd s whenwitch wet ” If we swit d, we will be MONEY . And that is about where go to be vings most Leaders leave it. We also have get up in the morning an back on when wein the power sa ding. the added responsibility to not waste ing d load shed participat o avoi ENERGY and this should be as an p t drive and hel important part of our “Personal electricity in South Growth Agreement ”, at every stage of Africa and electricity is the energy that CONSIDER the Scout's progress, as all that has makes almost everything in our homes work. Our lights, our stoves, our heaters, RE-CYCLING! gone before. Maybe something like our TVs and our computers. Electricity the following example may help:- “ ” also drives all the factories that make the ENERGY what is energy? My things we enjoy in life possible. Dad's sports coach tells me “Put more car, a tub of margarine, that packet of “ energy into your training and I will be a chips I so enjoy, even sweets, my Thinkingistheultimate ” better sportsman! Is physical energy cellphone. humanresource.The what we are talking about? If I pedal Well, just like you peddling up the hill on qualityofyourfuturewill my cycle harder I will go faster, at the your mountain bike, South Africa is top of the hill I will have lost my energy using up it's energy running all those dependentirelyonthe and have to rest so that I can build up million things that make our every day qualityofyourthinking. ” - that energy again, then I can continue life. When our country runs low on EdwardDeBono and reach home. energy (electricity), a little man throws a 19-21September2008 CreatingaBetterWorld WHAT IS CLEAN UP THE WORLD? climate change awareness and SCOUT INVOLVEMENT Clean Up the World is a community prevention activities, recycling projects, INTERNATIONAL based environmental campaign that educational campaigns, resource • The World Organization of the Scout inspires and empowers individuals and recovery projects, tree planting, water Movement (WOSM) has partnered with communities from every corner of the reuse and conservation, competitions Clean Up the World as an Ally. WOSM globe to make their environment a and exhibitions. will be promoting involvement in the cleaner, healthier place to live. Whilst Clean Up the World initiatives Clean Up the World campaign to its Now in its 16th year, Clean Up the can be undertaken at any time of the National Scout Organizations (NSOs) World, held in conjunction with United year, the campaign ’s flagship event is and celebrating the achievements of Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) , Clean Up the World Weekend, their local Scout Groups. mobilises an estimated 35 million • National Scout Organizations (NSOs) volunteers from more than 110 19-21 September 2008. Participants are encouraged to organise clean up can choose to join the Clean Up the countries annually making it one of the World campaign and register their largest community based events around this weekend and celebrate their environmental initiative as - promoting awareness of, environmental campaigns in the world. and involvement in, the Clean Up the Scouts have been involved with Clean achievements. Up the World every year since its Clean Up the World provides a range of World campaign to their local Scout inception.