AZMike 173 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Lord Baden-Powell had a vision of Scouts stepping in to help after natural disasters, wars, etc. Nice to see this is going on in Derna, Libya, after the departure of the ISIS forces: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/derna-boy-scouts-step-in-to-help-run-city-after-isis-is-driven-out-of-libyan-stronghold-10344233.html 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Cambridgeskip 658 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Properly inspiring, thank you for sharing. It's been shared to our facebook page and will be going on the troop notice board this evening. It's perfectly timed as well. Tonight's programme is being run by my two young leaders going to the jamboree in Japan, all themed on Japan. It's going to be a lot of fun, but a small reminder that scouting in the west is a different ball game to some corners of the world, where it is the difference between life and death far more often than most of us ever see. Link to post Share on other sites
NJCubScouter 1389 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 It is inspiring, but I am saddened to read in that article that the main militia group that defeated ISIS in that Libyan town is an affiliate of al-Quaeda. It's a shame that these Scouts - and their parents and the other civilians who just want to lead a regular life - are caught in the middle of all that. Link to post Share on other sites
SSScout 1615 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Gives new meaning to "Boy Led". Link to post Share on other sites
Gone 435 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Makes you wonder what the Girl Scouts and Y-guides do there. Link to post Share on other sites
qwazse 4342 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Makes you wonder what the Girl Scouts and Y-guides do there. At last report they shared common HQ, so their efforts are coordinated. @@NJCubScouter, war makes strange bedfellows, or as the old middle eastern saying goes, "It is I against my brothers, [unless it's I and] my brothers against my cousins, my cousins against the world." Link to post Share on other sites
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