Scouting was started in 1907 when Baden Powell camped with 20 scouts at brown c island with the aim to engage youth in fruitful activities which can strengthen them plus teach them to live Independently. The camp became a huge success and paved the way towards today's scouting which consist of Youth engaging activities to "Create a Better World". For this purpose, Scouting for Boys (1908) was published, Guiding, Different Category of Scouts were created and the most creative one was World Scout Jamboree, where the Scouts of the world meet.
First WSJ held at London (1920) and with the period of every 4 years, these jamborees were organized with different places. This year it was Kristianstad Sweden where jamboree was hosted.
This year 40,000 scouts from 161 Countries participated to create a better world. We all meet with each other, know each other, share cultures, create bridges with them, its the universal language of love which is spoken by the whole world.
We speaks Urdu similarly people from Mexico and Spain speaks Spanish likewise Japanese was the language of Japan but the question arises that how does the people communicate? engage with each other?
Different core activities as well as side activities are being organized by the WOSM and the National Scout Movements it self, which includes Cultural Day, Friendship Award, Global Development Village, Messengers of Peace, Quest, Dreams and the count goes on..
Friendship Award was given to those people who can make 8 friends of different countries, learn the basic of their language i.e. Hi, How are you, Bye, can greet them, knows their culture, their National Heroes, plus the participants got some friends from abroad alike from the ones whom they daily meet.
Messenger of Peace, supported by Saudi-Arabian Scouts Association,UNO and other NGO's which invited the whole world to have some activities within their own town to promote peace and understanding between the different countries. They got a oath "I'm a messenger of Peace" and the most interesting was the logo of this movement.
There's a task, find a Persian/Arabic word in this logo.
In GDV (Global Development Village) Scouts were taught to create a city safe from floods, plus one scout from each contingent were called to share the Natural Disasters in their countries plus remedies they are doing. Experts were called to show their ideas to give their suggestions.
Scouts from one camp invites other countries to meet with them, learn their traditions, have their food. French, Algerian and Others came into our camp, Food we made was too spicy for them but they all liked it. In fact I remember a Swedish guy who came for meals a couple of time after tasting our food. We taught them "Dil Dil Pakistan" and other National Songs. In the same way we visit their camp, and likewise activities were held.
Cultural Day was disastrous, where we wore our cultural dresses, exchanged our food, swapped cultural dress, played their local games, shared values. In this way we met with the whole world without a language, I was shocked to see that emotions and love doesn't need a language. The people who don't know each other and even don't familiar with the one's language, talked, swapped, enjoyed, understood emotions, supported them. They way we thought of them was much more opposite than it was, they supported us like brothers and sisters and at times more than them. If we ask someone a route, and he didn't know that, he will go and ask someone then tell us about it.
Today we need a world like this, activities like this. We should promote such kind of activities to engage youth in a better way in order to make them away from the social evils and other bad habits.
First WSJ held at London (1920) and with the period of every 4 years, these jamborees were organized with different places. This year it was Kristianstad Sweden where jamboree was hosted.
This year 40,000 scouts from 161 Countries participated to create a better world. We all meet with each other, know each other, share cultures, create bridges with them, its the universal language of love which is spoken by the whole world.
We speaks Urdu similarly people from Mexico and Spain speaks Spanish likewise Japanese was the language of Japan but the question arises that how does the people communicate? engage with each other?
Different core activities as well as side activities are being organized by the WOSM and the National Scout Movements it self, which includes Cultural Day, Friendship Award, Global Development Village, Messengers of Peace, Quest, Dreams and the count goes on..
Friendship Award was given to those people who can make 8 friends of different countries, learn the basic of their language i.e. Hi, How are you, Bye, can greet them, knows their culture, their National Heroes, plus the participants got some friends from abroad alike from the ones whom they daily meet.
Messenger of Peace, supported by Saudi-Arabian Scouts Association,UNO and other NGO's which invited the whole world to have some activities within their own town to promote peace and understanding between the different countries. They got a oath "I'm a messenger of Peace" and the most interesting was the logo of this movement.
There's a task, find a Persian/Arabic word in this logo.
In GDV (Global Development Village) Scouts were taught to create a city safe from floods, plus one scout from each contingent were called to share the Natural Disasters in their countries plus remedies they are doing. Experts were called to show their ideas to give their suggestions.
Scouts from one camp invites other countries to meet with them, learn their traditions, have their food. French, Algerian and Others came into our camp, Food we made was too spicy for them but they all liked it. In fact I remember a Swedish guy who came for meals a couple of time after tasting our food. We taught them "Dil Dil Pakistan" and other National Songs. In the same way we visit their camp, and likewise activities were held.
Cultural Day was disastrous, where we wore our cultural dresses, exchanged our food, swapped cultural dress, played their local games, shared values. In this way we met with the whole world without a language, I was shocked to see that emotions and love doesn't need a language. The people who don't know each other and even don't familiar with the one's language, talked, swapped, enjoyed, understood emotions, supported them. They way we thought of them was much more opposite than it was, they supported us like brothers and sisters and at times more than them. If we ask someone a route, and he didn't know that, he will go and ask someone then tell us about it.
Today we need a world like this, activities like this. We should promote such kind of activities to engage youth in a better way in order to make them away from the social evils and other bad habits.
