World Organization of the Scout Movement

The World Organization of the Scout Movement ( WOSM ) is a World Scout organization whose members currently more than 36 million scouts in 160 countries. Thus the WOSM is the largest children's and youth organization in the world. She also has a seat on the Committee of ISGF / AISG (International Scout and Guide Fellowship ), the World Association of Altpfadfinder.

The WOSM emerged from the Boy Scouts International Bureau was founded in 1920.

The silver lily on a violet background is the common character of all Scouts, their associations belong to the WOSM. The rope surrounding the lily with the reef knot symbolizes the cohesion of all the scouts around the globe.

Member Associations

Member associations in the German-speaking area are:

  • In Belgium, the umbrella organization Guidisme et Scoutisme s Belgique/Gidsen- s Scoutsbeweging in België from the French-speaking associations: Les Scouts - Fédération des Scouts Baden -Powell de Belgique ( also in the German-speaking Community of Belgium working: Region High Lakes )
  • Scouts et Guides de Belgique Pluralistes
  • Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen ( SGV )
  • FOS Open Scouting
  • Federation of Scouts and Guides
  • German Scout Association of Saint George
  • Association of Christian Scouts and Guides
  • Fédération Nationale des Eclaireurs Eclaireuses et du Luxembourg
  • Lëtzebuerger Guiding a scouting
  • Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani with the South Tyrolean Scout Association

Regions of the world

The World Organization of the Scout Movement is divided into six regions:

In the statutes of the WOSM regions are provided as voluntary associations of persons working in the region Scout associations. Thus, although there is no compulsion to participate in the corresponding region, all full members of WOSM the competent region have connected. In addition, there are some regions associate members who - for various reasons - full membership can not reach. These include, for example, largely independent overseas groups of French and British Scouts.

World Centre

The WOSM maintains a world center in Switzerland: in 1923 established Kandersteg International Scout Centre ( KISC ) ​​. The headquarters of WOSM in Geneva ( Switzerland )

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