National Fellowships

On 16 July 2023 the National Scout and Guide Fellowship of Trinidad & Tobago held their 2nd Gathering at La Vega Estate, a nature and recreation park.

World Environment Day is celebrated annually on 5 June. This day is celebrated and encourages awareness and action for the protection of the environment. It is supported by many non-governmental organizations. In 2023 World Environment Day was focused as a reminder on people’s actions concerning plastic pollution matters. The steps governments and businesses are taking to tackle plastic pollution are the consequence of this action.
2023 marks the 50th anniversary of World Environment Day, after it was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972. Over the past five decades, with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) at the helm, the day has grown to be one of the largest global platforms for environmental outreach. Tens of millions of people participate online and through in-person activities, events and actions around the world.

MASCI, the National Scout and Guide Fellowship of Italy is committed, with other Italian scout associations, to organizing twinnings between Italian scout groups and Ukrainian scouts (PLAST). Despite the war, they managed to organize 11 twinnings for a total of about 200 Ukrainian scouts.

The local Fellowship of Vienna is preparing a special celebration for what they call "World Friendship Day 2023" on 21 and 22 October 2023 in Vienna, Austria.

The fellowship, ‘Greek Former Scouts from County Commissions of Alexandria & Cairo’ (PEAK), have recently published in English, through Amazon Publishing. Their Scout Album covering over a century of Scouting in Egypt, which is available for sale and browsing through it on line, at the following link.

The Association of Pioneers of Scouts and Guides in Giza Governorate, Egypt, organized recently creative workshops.

The B-P Scout Guild Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia held her 44th AGM on 11 June 2023.

During the recent 10th Arab Region Conference that took place in Amman, Jordan, from May 27 till 31 a Twinning agreement was signed.

The Norwegian guilds play an important task in supporting the Norwegian guides and scouts at “Camp Villmark”, a big outdoor-equipment trade fair that is held in the large exhibition hall in the town of Lillestrøm, near Oslo. Back in 2016, the trade fair management offered the Norwegian Guide and Scout Association (NGSA) an exhibition area free of charge, in which to present scouting activities.

The Verband Deutscher Altpfadfindergilden e.V. - VDAPG (Association of German Adult Scouts and Guilds) met from 17 to 19 March 2023 in the Salvador Allende House in the city of Oer-Erkenschwick. Conclusion of the future workshop, amendment of the statutes, anniversaries and excursions in the Ruhr region: VDAPG e.V. association meeting in Oer-Erkenschwick.