The National President of the Scout and Guide Fellowship Ghana (SGF Ghana) Mr. Prosper Bani has reiterated the need for the government and its development partners to remain mindful of the increasing effects of climate change and its effects on livelihoods. According to him, through effects were being made globally to mitigate the impact of climate change, more needed to be done to salvage the situation.
During the recent 4th International Secretaries meeting, which was held on September 24, 2022 in the city of Hammamet in Tunisia, a Twinning agreement was signed between NSGF Libya and NSGF Tunisia.
These NSGFs already applied for having an official certificate.
With a 2-year delay (due to the Corona pandemic), the “Grænsetræf / Grenztreff” now took place from 6 to 8 May 2022.
The border between Denmark and Germany, once seen as a separation and demarcation, is now a sign of cooperation between two minorities - the Danish south of the border and the Germans north of the border. These characteristics were also the theme of the meeting.
The ISGF Twinning Coordinator received just recently a request from three ladies of respectively Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic to supply them with a Twinning certificate. They have formed two groups ALJAZE and TORAVE. They all started Twinning in 2022.
The tenth National Meeting of Adult Scouts and Guides in Tunisia, originally scheduled for March 2020, was postponed due to the global pandemic. The meeting was finally successfully organised from 18-20 March 2022 in a hotel in Sousse.
When so many countries have lifted COVID-19 travel restrictions, the first thing NSGF-LIBYA did was to have a national gathering. Djerba Island in Tunisia was the ideal environment for this gathering.
The Scouts y Guias Adultos de Argentina (SGAA) held their national camp from February 9 till 13, 2022. It was their first gathering after the pandemic started so they call it “Reunion National Camp” (Campamento Nacional del Encuentro).
Maharashtra State Scout and Guide Fellowship of India virtually celebrated Fellowship Day and Diwali festival on the 30th October 2021 displaying colourful hand made "Rangoli" and various traditional family rituals.
The 24th General Assembly of the Verband Deutscher Altpfadfindergilden e.V. – VDAPG took place from 1 – 3 October 2021 in Bad Kissingen, Germany. A new Board was elected.
Pfadfinder Gilde Österreichs, the Austrian Fellowship, celebrated on 17 September 2021 the joyful fact that they exist 70 years. They already existed since 1951 before ISGF was born in 1953 and Austria is also one of the 18 Founding members of ISGF.
Read more …