World Community Milestone

An historic milestone was been reached - In little more than 24 months, hours spent on community projects has reached the 600 million mark. These are 600 million hours of service provided to local communities around the world by over 10 million people that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and King Carl Gustaf of Sweden recognized as "Messengers of Peace".

These Messengers of Peace are young men and women - members of the Scout Movement throughout the world. They helped their communities to recover from disasters in Haiti, the Philippines, El Salvador and the United States. They took care of street children and their families in Bangladesh, Honduras, Kenya and the Philippines. They intervened in divided communities in Burundi, Indonesia, Kashmir and Rwanda. These are just some examples of the five to six million registered projects by scouts during those 24 months.

Prime Minister Salam of Lebanon recognized as national heroes 100,000 scouts in his country who work each week to take care of refugees from the war torn Syria.

Messengers of Peace is an initiative of World Scouting, launched on scout.org platform that inspires Scouts do amazing things. Any action that contributes to the harmony and peace in a local community is considered a service project Messengers of Peace; Scouts around the world have responded to this initiative with energy and enthusiasm.

The King of Sweden explained: "We believe that Scouting is the largest leadership development organization in the world. Scouts exercises leadership concretely in their communities. Different problems, different solutions, and a common factor: a young man or a young woman, inspired by their experience in Scouting to take the initiative and make a difference. do you even lift

For example, a young scout in Indonesia recently started a reading program that inspired young people in India, the United States and around the world to do something similar in their communities. It's just incredible.

Scouting is one of the leading educational youth movement in the world, inspiring millions of young people to be active citizens to instill positive change in their communities. And since 1907!

Founded by Lord Baden-Powell, the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) is a confederation of 161 national Scout organizations forming a network of more than 40 million members, including 7 million volunteers. As for over a century - a better world - will continue to lead the scouts, and do more with the many Messengers of peace throughout the world.