Sri Lanka Scout Association
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 Membership badge of the Sri Lanka Scout Association |
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| Headquarters | Colombo | ||
| Country | Sri Lanka | ||
| Founded | 1912 | ||
| Membership | 36,297 | ||
| Chief Scout | Mahinda Rajapaksa | ||
| President | M. A. Nawaz Caffoor | ||
| Chief Commissioner | C. Batuwangala | ||
| Affiliation | World Organization of the Scout Movement | ||
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| Website www.srilankascouts.lk |
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The Sri Lanka Scout Association (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා බාලදක්ෂ සංගමය; Tamil: இலங்கைச் சாரணர்க் கழகம்), the national Scouting organization of Sri Lanka, was founded in 1912, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1953. The coeducational Sri Lanka Scout Association has 36,297 members as of 2011.[1]
As Sri Lanka is a multireligious and multiracial country, Scouting has been a great unifying force.[citation needed]
There are various community development projects carried out in cooperation with the government organizations, United Nations and other service organizations.
Scouting has been introduced into the prisons. It has spread to other institutions such as certified schools. There are also Scout units for handicapped boys such as the blind and deaf and for boys in leprosy hospitals.
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[edit] History
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- 1912 - Scouting brought to Sri Lanka by F.G. Stevens at Christ Church college, Matale
- 1913 - Inception of the 1st Kandy Dharmaraja Scout Group,at Dharmaraja College
- 1914 - Scouting brought to Colombo by F.G. Stevens, at Christ Church, Galle Face, Colombo
- 1916 - Western Province Rally at Havelock Park, Colombo
- 1917 - First all Ceylon Rally at Havelock Race Course, Colombo
- 1921 - B.P.'s visit to Sri Lanka with Lady Olave Baden-Powell; Scouting started in Prisons
- 1930 - Scout HQ moves to an old guardroom at Galle Face, Colombo
- 1932 - All Ceylon Scout Craft exhibition at Katugastota, Kandy
- 1952 - Ceylon Jamboree at Kombi Kele (near the present BMICH, Colombo)
- 1957 - Participation in Jubilee Jamboree in England; Scout Council Act of Incorporation passed in Parliament
- 1962 - Golden Jubilee Jamboree at Race Course
- 1977 - National HQ shifted to Chithampalan Gardiner Mawatha
- 2009 - First female Cub Scouts invested on 23 January [2]
Gerald Fernando served as the International Boy Scout Commissioner for the Far East in the 1950s.
Senator E.W. Kannangara served on the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1960 until 1961.
In 1973, Kingsley C. Dassanayake was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.
[edit] Scout Motto
Sudhanamve sitinu සූදානම්ව සිටිනු, Be Prepared in Sinhalese.
[edit] Program sections
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- Cubs-ages 7 to 11
- Junior Scouts-ages 11 to 15
- Seniors Scouts-ages 15 to 18
- Rovers-ages 18 to 24
[edit] Events
National Jamboree is organizing by National HQ .[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Triennal review: Census as at 1 December 2010". World Organization of the Scout Movement. http://scout.org/en/content/download/22261/199900/file/Census.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-13.
- ^ "Sri Lanka Scout Association hosts first investiture ceremony for female Cub Scouts". World Scout Bureau. March 2009. http://www.scout.org/en/around_the_world/asia_pacific/information_events/news/sri_lanka_scout_association_hosts_first_investiture_ceremony_for_female_cub_scouts. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
- ^ Sri Lanka Scout Association 2009 Program
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