Scouting in Pakistan

Pakistan got independence on August 14, 1947 and even before that Scouting was in the Sub Continent. It was the scouts who were on the road for protest in the favor of independence, it was the scouts who supported the public in the administrative work in the Independence movement. We must engage our youth in a better program where we can advance our self in every field of life.

Pakistan Scouts Association formally known as Pakistan Boy Scouts Association was created on December 1, 1947 with headquarter in Karachi. Gradually with the passage of time it shifted to Islamabad where we have biggest campsite of Pakistan

Scouting in Pakistan works on 4 Aspects

• Physical
• Mental
• Social
• Religious

Whereas working on Emotional aspect and course development is still practiced by the teams. In Pakistan scouts are the most effective youth organization being practiced.

Everyone remember the Earth Quake of 2005, the Floods in the last year, the team to support the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP's) were scouts. With their skills they supported them in building temporary houses in the form of camp, some gadgets which means the daily furniture with some wood and ropes, cook on the wood stoves and even cook without utensils. That are some of the features which differentiate Scouts from other youth.

Scouts have the title of the first ambassadors of Pakistan.

Pakistan got independence on 14 August 1947 and its Flag was first Hoisted in the 6th World Jamboree at France by the Indo-Pak Scouts, at the 7th world Jamboree it was again scout who first time represented Pakistan through this way they are called the first ambassadors who represented Pakistan in front of the whole world

Today we need some other organizations like scouting which can support Pakistan to uplift its position, today its again the scouts who can improve the image, who can improve Pakistan, infront of every one by interacting with them, they got this great opportunity to Support their community, country and I hope that they will fulfill the the hope of every Pakistani Citizen

Photo Link:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Flag_on_Pakistani_Scout_uniform.jpg

World Scout Jamboree - Step Towards New World

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.

July 28, 2011

Today, July 28, 2011, simple but a rainy day for us.. it was so fun with the new friends, doing activities with them, having fun, sharing ideas with them

started off with the breakfast in the morning we headed towards the people activity and after that we had our lunch and then we gone towards summer camp for swapping but unfortunately we were in winter :P we even don't know that we were in winter.. we started swapping, finding new poeple for new badges, new contacts and new friends... we swapped with the winter people, took pictures, shared about Pakistan and had fun with them. We roamed in the winter meet new people, tried to learn their language.. after that we came towards our camp for dinner... we made keema, ate it, it was so delicious and made us remember Pakistani Street foods..

after the dinner we again gone for swapping as were were fond of doing that and as it was the start so we all wanted to do all the swapping first :P this time we found some woggles too... it was so fun to be at the World Scout Jamboree 2011...

I must say that every scout must attend jamboree to increase some experience, some socialization in their life..

Thank You.. :)

World Scout Jamboree - Official Song

You'll Love it.. :D <3


Inspirational video for the World Scout Jamboree featuring the Jamboree song "Change the World" by Daniel Lemma.

Changing the world is the official song for the 22nd World Scout Jamboree 2011 in Sweden. It is written by Daniel Lemma (lyrics) together with Pär Klang and the rest of the Jamboree band.

The Jamboree band consists of Pär Klang, John Söderdahl, Lennie Hansen, Anni Söderdahl, Johan Olsson, Martin Nobel och Anton Berg.


Filmed by: Rabie Abu, 22nd World Scout Jamboree


Lyrics:

Changing the world
D. Lemma, P. Klang

When you give a minute
When you stop and think
It ain't too hard to find
The connecting link
People want the same things
We dream of a happy end
We're just caught in the same commotion
And time slips away

Dreams - World Scout Jamboree

2300 Hours, searching for light in the dark forest, journey from old age to the birth of a child, a experience that remembered us our History to Destination in just 2 hours which was quite unusal but was too interesting...

At the end of summer town, some IST's with some Glowing Sticks waving, a series of gas Lights beside them were desperately waiting for some participants to come to them, there was a long run way which we have to cross for the next instruction from there we would go to our first destination, which was the old age.

Cultural Day WSJ

Karen Armstrong Quotes
Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

World Scout Jamboree - 40600 Participants, nah.. now its 48000 People.... !!!
hosts of the camp in camp are here, visiting the campsite, watching how we live daily, whats our culture, how we spend our day.