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.

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.

Mida Rodrigues, chairman of the ISGF World Committee, being in Belgium because of the yearly World Committee meeting took part in the Last Post Ceremony (http://www.lastpost.be).

On the first of March Romania celebrated the beginning of “spring” and the NSGF Romania welcomed it by giving each other special tokens ("martisoare") symbolizing spring, revival, good luck etc.

The Guild “Forêt de Soignes” from Belgium reached out for people who were in highest need and homeless during wintertime.

On 14^th December 2012, an article concerning the collection of toys for refugee children by the French Fellowship (FAAS) was issued on the ISGF website. The NGO “Aviation without Border” (ASF) had scheduled for mid-February the departure of the toys for Turkey. FAAS had thus decided to put an end on 6^th February 2013 to the campaign of collecting toys

On Saturday January 12, 2013 a local Guild of the Asociación National de Antiguos Scouts de Mexico (ANASMAC) started a campaign in Mexico City to recruit new members.

In 2012 again NSGF Curaçao “Copernicia” gave a helping hand to the a local Girl Guide group of Curacao,  belonging to the “Asosiashon di Guia Padvindsters Nederlandse Antillen”, AGPNA, with their traditional campaign “Help your neighbours in need”.