The Scout and Guide Fellowship UK held recently their first annual meeting. During a weekend members enjoyed formulating plans for the future and how best to further the aims and ideals of their organization.

The weekend also included discussion time with the opportunity for everyone to contribute ideas for the way forward. Future events both here and abroad were discussed and a gathering for next year is in planning stage.

The Fellowship “Santo Antonio” from Cape Verde invited the ISGF Chairman, Mida Rodrigues, to be present at the 40th anniversary of the Scouts of S. Domingo’s festivities and to meet with the Fellowship members.

A cultural show, an official ceremony with representatives of the government and St George’s day commemorations highlighted the Scouts anniversary of a very big group of boys and girls that are very proud of being members of the 1st group of “Associação de Escuteiros de Cabo Verde”.

Bangladesh is exposed to significant flood, cyclone and earthquake hazards but the latest disaster that took place on 24th April 2013, 8:45 AM was another one in a row. A nine-story garment factory block collapsed in Savar about 30 KM from Dhaka city. Around 3400 people were working when the building collapsed. This was the beginning of the tragedy. 1400 wounded workers were rescued and admitted in the hospital. Many of them are suffering from fatal injury. More than 400 dead bodies were recovered while others are untraced.

Contents:

1.News from individuals/groups

2.News from World Committee meeting

3.Project Share

4.Annual paperwork

5.Share your Newsletter

6.Events in 2013

7.Update Central Branch membership

 CB Newsletter 1, 2013

 CB Newsletter 1, 2013_text

 CB Newsletter 1, 2013_Spanish

On this day scouts and guides all over the world come together to celebrate the worldwide Fellowship in scouting and to focus on the basic values in Guiding and Scouting as laid down by the founder Baden-Powell.

When I was a young guide we used St George's Day to present ourselves and our activities in the neighborhood. We were active, visible and had a lot of fun.

We were proud of our troop and when we renewed our scout promise we thought of scouts and guides worldwide doing the same. It gave us a strong feeling of friendship.

One year after the renewal of the signature of the agreement between the UNHCR and ISGF, a meeting for evaluation of the development of the project took place in Paris.

As a project, Copernicia, the National Scout and Guide Fellowship of Curacao, had an idea to celebrate Palm Sunday as a project (Palm Sunday is the Sunday before Easter).

One of the members who belonged in the past to the Fellowship is now in a retirement home named 'Bon Wardador', which means "The Good Guardian". A plan was made and a group of nine members decided to create some Easter bunnies from washcloths and to decorate them with eggs made from real chicken eggs filled with cake.

While on a tour through Nepal, the German couple Angela Ströter and Reinhard Osterfeld took the chance to get in touch with the Central Branch (CB) group in Nepal on 14 March 2013. Both are members of the local German Fellowship Cosmas and Damian in the city of Essen.

The Europe Committee organized the 5^th workshop in Wandlitzsee, Germany, north of Berlin for members of the International Scout and Guide Fellowship in Europe. It was the first time for some participants that they ever have seen snow. As requested by the 4^th workshop held in Jambville, France, in 2012, this workshop was held to review the activities undertaken by the Europe Committee to examine regional needs and priorities.

From the 5^th to the 12^th March 2013, the members of the World Committee gathered at the World Bureau for their annual meeting and several other specific appointments.

All the committee members were present as well as Wamuyu Mahinda, WAGGGS representative.   Leny Doelman, Central Branch & Twinning Coordinator and Anthony Florizoone, Treasurer, were partly present. The representative of WOSM, Simon Khoo, could not attend.