UGANDA SCOUT ASSOCIATION
PROFILE
[15/8/2010]
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UGANDA SCOUT
Our Legacy:
A great Idea
It was Lord Baden Powell, the founder of the
movement, who after having tested the Scouting
method on Brownsea Island in August 1907
heeded to his calling to spread a message that
nothing is impossible for those who are prepared
to play their part in creating a better world.
As a result, in 1915 the Scouting Movement was
introduced in Uganda.
Our Vision:
“Creating a better world"
Our Patron President Yoweri Museveni commissioning the Chief Scouts of Kabojja Junior School being Invested
Scout Prof. Maggie Kigozi. Witnessed by Hon. Gabriel Opio
(centre) the Minister of Gender and our Line Minister.
The Scout Method
Our Mission:
The Scout Method is the educational heart of the
Movement. It is based on the concept of “Learning
“Educating young people to play
by doing” and the participation in decision-making
a constructive role in society”
processes. It enables young people, girls and boys,
to become engaged, impassioned and autonomous
citizens, by helping them to develop to their full
potential physically, intellectually, socially,
emotionally and spiritually. The Scout Method is
based on the Law and the Promise, and nature is
the first place of learning. The Adult leaders are
“Learning by Doing” – Building Trust and Confidence,
volunteers who support this development of young and Nurturing Teamwork (blindfolding).
people and the Movement.
Uganda Scouts clean St. Balikuddembe
Participants at the opening ceremony of the
Former Street kids rehabilitated through after fire gutted the Market in 2009
3rd World Scout Interreligious Symposium for
Scouting (Sunrise Street Kids project) Peace on 21st October 2009
A Social Force A Constructive Contribution A Culture of Peace
An agent of development, Scouts contribute daily towards Open to all and built on
Scouting constitutes a social creating a better world, to find friendship, Scouting encourages
force at local, district, national ways to be constructive, and to a culture of peace through the
and international levels. Working not leave society only to the care personal commitment of its
together with its partners, both of others, when they themselves members and the collective
public and private, Scouting can be helpful. Every Scout commitment of the Movement.
responds to the needs of society. commits to using their Contributing to the spirit of
Without social awareness, it competencies to help the others, peace, Scouting promotes
cannot exist. An educational to share their knowledge, and to respect for others and the
movement for young people, improve community life. environment, diversity of cultures
Scouting is an active member of as well as intercultural training
Society. around the world.
Empowering
In Scouting, young people are given every
opportunity to explore their decision-making
capacities. By providing an educational
framework where one can take initiative,
Scouting makes it possible for young people to
acquire and develop leadership qualities.
Rover scouts training Unit Scout Leaders
Our Fundamental Principles: (teachers in charge of Schools)
Duty to God
Adherence and Commitment to spiritual principles,
loyalty to religion and accepting the duty resulting
from that religion
Duty to Others
Loyalty to one’s country in harmony with the
promotion of local, national and international
Our Strengths: peace, understanding and cooperation
Participation in the development of society with
recognition and respect for the dignity of
Involving
humanity and for the integrity of the
environment
Through the Promise, Scouts are committed to
creating a better world. The Promise is based on
the Scout Law, a simple text of ten articles that
helps guide a Scout’s choices. Scouts unite for
Duty to Self
justice, equality and integrity. One can count on
the word of a Scout.
Responsibility for the development of oneself
Exciting
Scouting and Disability - Deaf Scouts from
Budaka district
Innovation is the tradition of Scouting. Through
attractive activities, the Movement
Projects offers a Development
and Community
framework of recreation, exploration and
Ugandaimpassioned
Scout Association has implemented
experiences, enablingquiteyoung
a number of projects in the areas of Adolescent
Reproductive Health, Nutrition, Environment conservation,
people to develop their sporting, artistic, and HIV prevention, Civic education,
patriotism, immunization,
solidarity skills. community mobilization, food security, poverty alleviation, children in
difficult circumstances (including support to the Internally Displaced, and street children), peace
building, among others. The projects that are currently running include the Scouting for Solutions
project and Empowering Africa’s Young Peoples initiatives, which are on HIV prevention; the Food for
Life Project, which is on food security; and the Street Kids project, which works to take children out of
streets.
Our Success Stories:
Scouting against HIV/AIDS: “The Scouting for Solutions (Sfs) project”
Scouting for Solutions (SfS) is a skills-building and dialogue
-based project that works to promote abstinence until marriage
and avoidance of unhealthy sexual behaviors among scouts in
Uganda and Kenya.
The project has reached an estimated 150,000 girls and boys
aged 12 to 15 years with intensive and repeated HIV prevention
strategies and healthy promotion activities.
An Editor of the Scouts Voice, A newsletter The unique approaches used were:
produced by scouts under the Scouting for
Solutions project
Reaching young people with information and skills for HIV
prevention through revising the HIV curriculum; developing
activity packs with accurate information, discussion guides
and interactive activities; annual contests, little magnet
theatre, photo shoot back and Scouts Voice newsletter
production.
Engaging parents/guardians and other protective adults (gate
keepers) in creating a supportive environment for young
people through dialogues and interaction that provide
adolescents – with the adult support they need to protect
themselves from HIV.
Scouts from Manafwa district display copies
of the Scout Voice and activity packs The project reached scouts in 4,688 units/schools in 59 districts
of Amolatar, Amuru, Arua, Budaka, Bududa, Bugiri, Bulisa,
Bukedea, Bushenyi, Busia, Butaleja, Dokolo, Gulu, Hoima,
Iganga, Ibanda, Isingiro, Jinja, Kabarole, Kaberamaido, Kaliro,
Kamuli, Kanungu, Kasese, Kayunga, Kiruhura, Kisoro, Kitgum,
Koboko, Kumi, Lira, Luwero, Manafwa, Masaka, Masindi,
Mayuge, Mbale, Mbarara, Mityana, Mpigi, Moyo, Mubende,
Mukono, Nakaseke, Nakasongola, Namutumba, Nebbi,
Ntungamo, Oyam, Pader, Pallisa, Rakai, Rukungiri, Siironko,
Soroti, Tororo, and Wakiso.
Scouting against HIV/AIDS: “The EAYPI project”
The Empowering Africa’s Young People’s Initiatives (EAYPI) is a
strategic skills and dialogue based project aimed at promoting
Abstinence until marriage, monogamous relationships and avoidance
of unhealthy sexual behaviours among scouts and youths aged 10-24
in three districts namely: Kabale, Iganga and Kampala (Nakawa
Division).
USA has notably accomplished the following: 421 new peer educators
were trained in ABY and life planning skills, 93 PTC Facilitators Scouts carrying out peer –to- peer
education on slum areas about HIV
trained, 19,222 young people were reached through one to one and prevention
group approach peer education outreaches both in and out of schools,
72 young people trained in drama groups, 2,397 adults reached in
sub-county level meetings, 10,892 adults and young people reached
through theatre outreaches and 12,960 parents and young people
reached in PTC outreaches.
Our Success Stories:
Scouting for Food Security: “The Food for Life programme”
The Food for Life is a poverty alleviation programme through building
agricultural skills of individual scouts. It is ensuring that 20,000 scouts
in Uganda are given food production and marketing skills and starter
packs to practice agriculture in 5 years.
The programme started in September 2008, with 4,000 scouts and
will be scaling up by adding another 4,000 scouts each year. Each
individual scout is to have a garden from which s/he is expected to
produce food for his/her family. Upon this achievement the scout Scouts receiving scarves as a reward
for starting & maintaining a garden
earns a badge, and then proceeds to the second level where s/he is at School
expected to produce a variety of fruits and vegetables. The third level
involves agriculture and entrepreneurship, whereby the scout not only
produces fruits and vegetables for his/her family, but has to have
surplus for marketing.
Although each scout is required to have and manage his or her own
garden,
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will Environment:
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theunitFuture”
(school) or
troop. This will act as a demonstration garden where the scouts will
be trained and given the required skills to manage their own gardens.
Scouts in their garden together with
The proceeds
Innovation fromtradition
is the the group garden willThrough
of Scouting. be used to further sustain their scout leaders (teachers)
the unit.
attractive activities, the Movement offers a
framework of recreation, exploration and
The project is being
impassioned implemented
experiences, in the districts
enabling youngof Kampala, Wakiso,
Mukono, Jinja, Iganga, Mayuge, Namutumba,
people to develop their sporting, artistic, and Busia, Tororo, Mbale,
Sironko, Soroti,
solidarity skills. Apac, Lira, Gulu, Masindi, Nakasongola, Luwero,
Masaka, Bushenyi, and Kabale.
Scouting for the Marginalized: “The Ticket for Life (Street Kids) programme”
The ‘Uganda Sunrise Project” is a Uganda Scout Association
(USA) project that recruits young people directly from the street of
Kampala.
Once recruited the young people are inducted into a set of ground
rules: a “Scout” contract between the kids and the project. With a
letter of Scout membership, these kids were no longer harassed
by the authorities when they were going about their daily business.
With the influence of the Scout Association, each kid has free
health referral through the government health system. And with the
Scouting
sheer logistics for life
of daily Foodfor aSecurity:
“family” of “The Food
20 children for
and Life programme”
one
adult, the importance of the shared responsibility using the Scout
method became clear to all. There were a couple of drop-outs
Innovation is the tradition of Scouting. Through
early on, but the majority have stayed. And the 20 or so kids
attractive activities, the Movement offers a
working on the farm now own and sell what they produce, and live
framework of recreation, exploration and
and work under their own management team. The project was
impassioned experiences, enabling young
founded by the Late Chief Scout Hon. Manuel Pinto and Ms.
people to develop their sporting, artistic, and
Victoria former Chief Commissioner who now runs Bright Kids – Victoria inspects the quarters of her “family” of
solidarity skills. formerly homeless children who now live as
Uganda a home for abandoned children. USA has carried on their Scouts, and prepare for a responsible future.
work and has a fully fledged programme extension of Scouting to
children in difficult circumstances.
Our Success Stories:
Scouting for Environment: “The Trees for the Future project”
The environment is central to the Scout Programme and a key
element of developing good citizens of the world. Since
Scouting began, young people have been connecting with the
outdoors, learning from nature and taking positive action for
their local and global environment.
There are many more environmental challenges today than
when Scouting started, making it even more important to keep
the environment central to Scouting, to build on the momentum
already established and to make Scouting a positive force for Scouts going to plant trees as part of
the 1 million tree planting campaign
change.
Scouting plays an important role in connecting people with the
natural world, especially given the increasing separation of
young people from the natural environment.
Learning by doing – “Setting the
Tree Nursery bed”
Scouting for Climate Change: “Uganda-Japan UN-HABITAT project”
With nearly 50% of the world's population living in
urban settings, it is important to incorporate the 'bigger
picture' of the environment and climate change, which
includes more than just plants, animals and
conservation.
Helping Scouts to see the relationship between their
actions in an urban setting and the natural world is an
important element of environment education.
Japan and Uganda Scouts who are part of the UN-HABITAT
The environment is changing all around us, with a loss project. Scouting thrives on partnerships & cooperation.
of habitat and native species, reduced access to clean
water and clean air, more harmful substances entering
our environment and more people being affected by
natural disasters. Scouts need to understand these
issues and feel empowered to decide what are the
most suitable environmental practices they can apply
and take action to improve their local area.
The environment and climate change is a global
subject and Scouting is a global movement. Through
environmental and climate change education and
action, Scouting can really make a difference.
Lasting Friendship!! Environment is central to Scouts
irrespective of the country you come from.
How can I help? How can I participate?
Please Contact:
Executive Secretary
Uganda Scout Association
Baden Powell House, Buganda Road
PO Box 1294
Kampala, Uganda
Tel: + 256 414 236087
Fax: + 256 414 236087
Email: scouts@ugandascouts.org
Website: www.ugandascouts.org
