THE MOVEMENT

THE  Scouting, founded in  1907  per  Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, is a worldwide, educational, voluntary, nonpartisan and  non-profit.

Its proposal is the development of young people - through a system of values that prioritizes honor, based on  Scout Promise and the Scout Law (or Scout Law) – and through the practice of teamwork and the outdoors, making the young person assume their own growth, becoming an example of brotherhood, loyalty, altruism, responsibility , respect and discipline.

STORY

The origins of Scouting have as a symbolic event the camp organized by Baden-Powell in 1907 in  Brownsea Island in the  Channel, with twenty young people, from 12 to 16 years old, in which he taught techniques such as first aid, observation, safety and orientation. As a symbol of the group, on this occasion, they used a green flag with a  fleur-de-lis  yellow in the center, which would later serve as a symbol of Scouting itself.

Enthusiastic with the success of this camp, Baden-Powell began writing the book  Scouting for Boys, which was published in  1908, also under the great influence of Frederick Russell Burnham, a friend who served with Baden-Powell in the Matabeles Campaign in 1896 and who would come to be considered the father of the international Scout movement. Burnham even started in the activity at the age of 14 and was an expert tracker of Indians in the Wild West. The great friendship between the two resulted, years later, in every didactic formulation of Scouting.

Reception of ideas from  Baden-Powell  was such that, in a short time, hundreds of Scout Patrols were formed, practicing Scouting. The movement quickly spread to several countries around the world, reaching the  South America  in 1908, in  Chile.

In  In 1909, more than 10,000 young people held an exhibition of their Scout skills at the famous  Crystal Palace, in London. Not even the rain and the cold, that morning of the day  September 4, could dampen their enthusiasm. In this historic meeting, the boys formed the majority.

Fearing the degeneration of their ideas, and realizing the need to integrate everyone within a rapidly growing movement,  Baden-Powell  he began to dedicate himself to the organization of the Scout Movement, which was not his original proposal. Leave the Army in  1910, and enters what he called his "second life", dedicated to the growth and strengthening of Scouting.

Still in 1910, Scouting of the Sea is created, as well as the "Girls Guides" appear within the Movement, that is, the  Scout Guides. From  1912, Baden-Powell begins to travel the world promoting and uniting Scouting, which now develops as a "World Fraternity".

Also in 1912, the first Guides Manual was published, "How Young Women Can Help the Empire..." written by  Agnes Baden-Powell.

Already in  1916, at the request of younger children who wanted to be part of the Scout Movement, Baden-Powell created the Lobinho Branch, based on the  Jungle Book, by  Rudyard Kipling, with the help of his sister, Agnes.

In  1917, the first International Council of the Association of Guides of England is informally constituted, and, in the following year, the basic text of the  Guidismo, written by Baden-Powell, especially for the guides.

Scouting receives from William F. de Bois McLaren an area of land, in Epping Forest, outside London, where it settles  Gilwell Parko  Scoutmaster training center (the course is now called the Madeira Badge course. Those who complete the course receive a beaded necklace and a scarf with a piece of fabric at the back with the characteristic weave of the McLaren clan). In  1930, Lady  Olave Baden-Powell  is acclaimed World Chief Guide, a role he held until  1976, when he died.

Baden-Powell's last public appearance for the Boy Scouts was in  1937, in  Fifth World Jamboree  in Vogelezang, the Netherlands, after which he traveled to the  Kenya, where he took up residence from  1938  along with Lady Olave. Die there.

The main international representative organization is the  World Organization of the Scout Movement  (OMME), WOSM in English. Scouting is the largest organized non-formal education movement. in September  2005, statistics show Scouting present in 216  countries  and  territories, with a total of 28 million members, with only six countries without Scouting. More than 300 million young people have passed through the Scout Movement since its creation in  England. In  2007, the  world jamboree  of the Centenary in England, with the participation of about 42 thousand people in more than 120 countries.