Lëtzebuerger Guiden a Scouten

The Lëtzebuerger Guiding a Scouten ( LGS, Luxembourg Scouts ) are the largest Scout Association in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The original Catholic Association is now oriented Christian and is supported by the Catholic Church, but takes children and young people of all religions. The LGS have about 5,000 members.

The Association is co-educational: As Guiding the female members are called, the scouting are the male members. About the Luxembourg Boy Scouts Association, the LGS are members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, through the Bureau de Liaison des Associations Guides du Luxembourg in the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.

History

The first Catholic Scout groups in Luxembourg created in 1913 at the Association of the Luxembourg Catholic youth clubs. They joined together in 1919 to the Lëtzebuerger Scouten (Fédération Nationale des Scouts du Luxembourg ). Groups for Catholic Girl Scouts were founded only in autumn 1938, when Pierre Posing initiated the Lëtzebuerger Guiding ( Catholic Luxembourg Girl Guides ).

Two years later, the Boy Scouts work was banned by the German occupation authorities. Some groups worked despite the ban on; their leaders were deported in part to concentration camps.

In 1945 the Lëtzebuerger scouting together with the Fédération Nationale des Eclaireurs du Luxembourg, the Luxembourg Boy Scouts Association to create a common representation at the World Scout Movement. 1950 succeeded in doing so also the Girl Scouts, working together in the Bureau de Liaison des Associations Guides du Luxembourg with the Association of Girl Guides Luxembourgoises.

Due to the social change of the 1960s, the two Catholic organizations cooperated more intense. A formed therefrom long consultation process in 1994, completed by the fusion to a kodedukativen Association, today Lëtzebuerger Guiding and scouting.

Structure

The association is divided into about 60 local groups. Almost all work coeducational, usually all age groups from the Wëllefcher offered, the Beaver Scout is rarely represented.

Are led by the LGS a three -member board, consisting of the Chairman, his deputy and a curate. They are supported in an extended board by numerous officers, including for the ages, and international cooperation.

Connected to the association, founded in 1987, is a private development aid organization, the Guiding a scouting mat Drëtter the world ( Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts for the Third World ), which, among other projects in Bolivia, Chile, India, Niger and Senegal performs. The Foundation Guiding a scouting on Déngscht vun de Jonken ( Scouts and Guides in the service of youth), the financing of the job safely and operates the office of the Association, which is located in the Weimer Kircher mill, a former foundry in Luxembourg -Weimerskirch.

Ages

The association is divided into five age groups that work with different age- appropriate forms of Scout method. The steps are:

• Beavers ( 5-8 years)
• Wëllefcher ( 8-11 years)
• Caravels a Pionéier ( CaraPio, 14 to 17 years)
• Ranger Rover a ( RaRo; 17 to 23 years).

Older members can take on leadership roles in the Association, be initiated and engaged or join a Altpfadfindergilde.