Afghanistan Scout Association
Afghan Scout Association ( Pashto: د افغانستان څارندوی ټولنه Da Afghanistan Sārandoy Tolena ) short Zarandoi is in the Iranian solar year, corresponding founded in 1931/1932 in Afghanistan.
History
1931-1947
The organization made its foundation in the reign of Nadir Shah known with about 300 members. From 1932 it belonged to the World Scout organization ( WOSM ). But already in 1947 the organization was banned by the government, as the scouts had been accused of being fire-worshipers. During a tent camp they had music and sing songs around a campfire.
1956-1978
In 1957 the organization as part of the democratization efforts in Afghanistan was rebuilt and numbered about 7,000 members. At this time the uncle of King Zahir Shah exercised the power.
The court, headed at that time was King Zahir Shah was very impressed by the organization. The initiators of the Afghan section have the general principles of scouting other obligations, such as duty to the king, nation and country added. Discipline and duty were welcome educational goals for the government, which organized the organization in comparison to other states very tight and almost military. Although the rulers used this organization rather for the stabilization of the state, however, the organization has made a great contribution to youth work in Afghanistan despite this instrumentalization, especially as responsibility, independence, sense of community and equality is concerned, as well as mutual respect and behavior towards girls and women.
Also, some children of the king and members of his court attracted to the gap. The Federal Republic of Germany donated the gap for the Afghan Scout Association. Mainly by the services of the organization benefited the children of the privileged strata of society, especially of the tribe of the king and the state-supporting upper classes, who left the country when the pro-Soviet forces took power.
The organization was affiliated as a public authority the Ministry of Education, chaired by Dr. Omar Wardak held while Dr. Popal was Minister of Education. During his tenure, a school for the training and development of the Scout group leader was founded.
From the Federal Republic of Germany came Dr. Eberhard Kruger and wife Rosemarie Young man, to educate the Scouts teachers in Afghanistan.
During the tenure of Nassim in 1964, the organization took part in the fourth Scout Conference in Malaysia and received the certificate of membership at the World Scout Conference.
In 1959, women played a large role in building the organization. At the festivals and celebrations of independence in the 1960s and 1970s, the Afghan Scouts and Guides took part in the framework of the structure and organization of cultural events. Mermon Parwin supported the organization, sang some songs and has acted on a scout in the fixed - pavilion of the Boy Scouts organization.
In 1961, a group of scouts took place under the leadership of the President on the 11th Scout Jamboree in Greece and in part it presented itself at the 19th International Scout Conference. On 1 June 1964, the Afghan Scout Association was accepted as a member of the World Scout. Dr. Said Habib was the deputy president of the Afghan Scout Association. He supported the creation of music groups.
The youth and women's work as well as the music, sports and games of the Boy Scouts organization participated constantly in the years 1964-1973. The clubs, who had now in various parts of the country local groups, set up, for example, more music groups, organized camp and led by other educational leisure activities in which the children and youth crafts, painting and singing learned. However, most of the organization's activities were limited to Kabul.
1978-2001
With the coup of pro-Soviet groups the Scouts organization policing was part of the Interior Ministry and had taken over.
With the scouting went downhill when Daud came to power again. During the years of civil unrest and war, after the coup of 1978, about 10 million people left the country and sought abroad, especially in Pakistan (about 5 million people) and Iran (about 3 million) refuge. Already at the beginning of the unrest years left the privileged strata of the population, the country so that such organizations inland could no longer exist. The name Zarandoi was taken by the Afghan security forces and the organization became a part of the Afghan police.
2001 to today
After the fall of the Taliban in 2002 there have been efforts to establish Pathfinder clubs. Serious interest about the recovery or the establishment of a scouting organization in Afghanistan there seems, however, to date no one to have.
In Germany some alumni have a club APV ( Afghan Scout Association ) established abroad. The association is incorporated into the Association of German Altpfadfindergilden. Tests of the association, which has its headquarters in Lingen, build an organization in Afghanistan, were there previously thought not good.
2004 to have been founded in Afghanistan a Boy Scout organization, whose activities are of little information.