You can navigate by country or by theme. Over 100 inspirational projects have been received from Scouts worldwide at national and local level.
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Scouts in Barbados are being trained to respond to the key issues facing young people on the island today. These issues are: HIV/AIDS, drug abuse and disaster awareness. The Scouts are learning about these issues in order to support others, live healthier lives and be better prepared for the hurricanes which hit the island annually.
Scouts in Oman are helping to educate their communities through a peer education project which aims to increase awareness in young people of specific health issues in society. In this way, young people will be able to help to protect themselves and their friends and relatives from harm.
4 million South Africans, and 25 million people in Africa, are infected with HIV/AIDS. Over 50% of new infections with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, now occur in young people. Scouts in South Africa believe that together, Scouts around the world can change the course of this disease and they are leading the way with a peer education programme.
Scouts in Zimbabwe are working to spread awareness of the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse, and the link from these to HIV/AIDS, which is a huge problem in their country.
Scouts in Rwanda are reaching out to young people living in harsh conditions. The project aims to integrate young people into scout activities who, because of their health, their living conditions or their past, experience insecurity and marginalisation. It also aims to help to make the community aware of the need to integrate and take care of people identified as living in difficult conditions.
Scouts in Malaysia are working to create awareness among young people of the dangers of HIV/AIDS, and are learning how to stay healthy as well as to understand the issues faced by those who have contracted HIV/AIDS.
Scouts in South Africa are teaching environmental education to young people from poverty-stricken rural areas. The young people attend, free of charge, a two-day environmental camp at the Mafikeng Scout Centre of Excellence for Nature and the Environment (SCENE), and since 2002, over 9,000 young people have gone through the programme.
Qiblatain Scout Group in Tanzania is supporting HIV/AIDS orphans and street children in their community as their Gift for Peace. They chose this project having learned that over 75% of the children in orphanages and on the streets in their area had come to be in this situation having lost their parents or carers to HIV/AIDS.
Scouts in Madagascar are raising awareness of health and environmental problems and taking action to make a difference. Their “Civic Involvement of Scouts for Peace in Madagascar” project includes fundraising to buy medical drugs, repairing hospital toilets, HIV/AIDS. awareness, planting trees and making people aware of environmental problems.
Scouts in Swaziland are working to support HIV/Aids orphaned and vulnerable children through a project called 'Thirst For Life'. They are helping them to develop interpersonal and lifeskills through Scouting and are meeting the needs of their local communities by building a Centenary Centre to provide clean water for the inhabitants and to cultivate vegetables.
Scouts in Malawi are working to improve the health and living conditions of young people living on the streets. Young people will be helped to develop life-skills to build their self-confidence and self-esteem. Thirty young people will be trained initially and then though a peer education and support system the project will reach out to other young people.
Scouts in Zambia are developing their scouting so that they can reach out to more young people and adults in their communities. They want to be able to provide recreation and education for more young people, better training and life-skills for adults and HIV/AIDS education.
Scouts in Mexico are developing projects to help underprivileged groups in their communities, especially street children, ethnic minority groups, the elderly, children with cancer and children with AIDS.
Scouts in Tanzania and neighbouring countries are raising awareness of key issues such as drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, sustainable environmental development and peace education. They organised a peace caravan from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Nyeri in Kenya and as they traveled they ran activities for young people in the local communities on these key global issues.
Since the beginning of the Darfur crisis in July 2003, local Scouts in Darfur communities have been working to support people living in Internally Displaced People's camps, improving their living conditions, working to boost their moral and supporting peace building initiatives in the region.
Scouts in the Gulu District of Uganda are raising awareness of HIV/AIDS through peer education, specifically in camps for internally displaced people in their district. They train young leaders as peer educators, who then go into the local scout units to tell their peers about HIV/AIDS.
Scouts in Haiti have launched a major campaign to fight prejudices in Haitian society, notably against the use of the creole language, culture, sex, marginalised communities, social class and skin colour. 40,000 Scouts are being trained as educators and are disseminating a message of tolerance to the local population. They aim to organise 1,500 campfires/gatherings to bring together around 370,000 people.
Scouts in Benin are raising awareness of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals and in particular HIV/AIDS awareness, and are training their young leaders to distribute information on the subject. In order to do this, they have created a youth information and promotion centre where young people can learn to use computers, use a library, attend lectures, seminars, and take part in discussion groups. The Scouts are also launching an awareness campaign, using adapted and simplified versions of the Millennium Campaign kits.
Our experiences in Scouting help us to find ways for us as individuals to work for peace, justice and freedom through non violent means. Together we can celebrate our unity regardless of our faith, race, nationality or other differences.
