Jean Lewis, from Cape Town Trefoil Guild, South Africa, informed us about the good turn, they participated in, during this Corona pandemic. Some Trefoil Guilders in South Africa are member of ISGF via Central Branch.
The Austrian local Scout and Guide Fellowship of Hörsching did a great job for the Scouting in the same place. Hörsching is a municipality in the district Linz-Land in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. It is next to the Linz Airport.
On 5 June 2020, the community service and development committee of the Arab Union of Pioneer Scouts & Guides celebrated World Environment Day.
Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic NSGF Indonesia had recently their video call during the Jakarta Provincial Scout Meeting.
During International Day of Families that was celebrated on 15 May 2020, the committee of programs and activities of the Arab Union of Pioneer Scouts & Guides organized a digital lecture.
The technical Committee of the ISGF Arab Region, representing Programs, Activities, Community service, Development and the Media held multiple video conference calls in June 2020.
Maharashtra State Indian Scout and Guide Fellowship gifted 200 kits to the 200 para medical staff of the Mumbai Municipal T.B. Hospital at Sewri.
The Rucas Huenei, the local Fellowships of NSGF Argentina, collaborated very actively during the pandemic, making masks (around 6000) in different parts of their country. Protective gowns and shoe covers were also made.
Since 2007 when the partnership of the International Scout and Guide Fellowship was signed, actions have been important, if not numerous: 1000 backpacks for 1000 children who had returned to Burundi after having been refugees in Tanzania, important gifts of toys for children in refugee camps, construction of houses for 50 families in the Imvepi camp in Uganda.
The effects of the ongoing COVID-19 virus have been dramatic, causing serious health problems, strict travelling restrictions and serious financial problems all over the world. As individuals, we cannot solve all the problems for all people, but we can at least try to reduce them for some of the people. The St. Georges Guilds of Norway (SGGN) have in earlier years supported a couple of scout building projects in Nyeri, Kenya.
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