Book Scouts of the World Award - Guidelines

The Scouts of the World Award is directly inspired by the last message of Baden-Powell: "Try and leave this world a little better than you found it…", which is reminded by the motto of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement: "Scouting – Creating a better world". It proposes to young people between 15 and 25 – Scouts or non-Scouts - to do something to face the main challenges of today's world : environment, peace and development. To obtain the Scouts of the World Award, a young person must: (1) attend a special course, called the SW Discovery and (2) accomplish a SW Voluntary Service to make a difference in the fields of environment, development or peace. This book explains how Scout leaders can organize the Scouts of the World Award and propose it to young people. It can be an excellent complement to the Senior Scouts and Rover programmes.