Japan to host 23rd World Scout Jamboree in 2015

Japan has just won the bid to host the 23rd World Scout Jamboree in 2015. Announced in the Plenary Hall at ICC Jeju on Jeju Island during the 38th World Scout Conference, Japan was ecstatic to hear the results with the Chairman of the bidding committee, Mr. Osamu Hirose saying: We are very happy and we are sure that the Jamboree will be a very good opportunity to educate young people, and also a very good chance to show how Scouts around the world are creating a better world.

The Jamboree will be located on Kirarahama or Kirara Beach in Yamaguchi Prefecture. The Japanese word “kirara” means mica: Kirara Beach offers a beautiful landscape in front of which the Seto Inland Sea glitters in the sunlight just like mica.

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Yamaguchi Japan (Official candidate website)

World AIDS Orphans Day

 

World AIDS Orphans Day will occur on 7 May. More than 25 million children worldwide have lost one or both parents to AIDS – equivalent to the number of people living in New York, Paris, Rome and Bangkok combined. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, 12 million children have been orphaned by the pandemic. In addition to being especially vulnerable to all forms of exploitation, these children face financial difficulties, disease, and stigmatisation.

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2011, European Year of Volunteering

 

On Wednesday 9th April, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), Marian Harkin (IE), Gisela Kallenbach (DE), Emmanouil Angelakas (GR), Mieczyslaw Janowski (PL) and Joel Hasse Ferreira (PT) launched a written declaration in the Parliament to propose 2011 be designated the European Year of Volunteering. If it is adopted it will make a significant contribution to the campaign to have the year designated.

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38th World Scout Conference & 10th World Scout Youth Forum

The 38th World Scout Conference will be held on Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, from Monday 14th to Friday 18th July 2008 while the 10th World Scout Youth Forum will take place in Iksan, Korea, from Monday 7th to Thursday 10th July 2008, just prior to the 38th World Scout Conference.  The Korea Scout Association (KSA), the National Scout Organization of the Republic of Korea, will host the two events. They have formed a very good team in Seoul, where the headquarters of the organization are located, and are enthusiastically preparing for the events.

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