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The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM / ˈ w ʊ z əm /) is the largest international scout organization and was established in 1922. [1] [2] It has 176 members. [3]These members are national scout organizations that founded WOSM or have subsequently been recognised by WOSM, which collectively have around 43 million participants.
Awana US evangelical Scout-like organization; Boys' Brigade (The predecessor to the Scout Movement, created in the UK in 1883, 25 years before Baden-Powell's Scouts) Camp Fire (nationwide US youth organisation) Christian Service Brigade (non-denominational Christian youth organisation for boys in the USA and Canada)
Pioneer of Scouting for Indian boys. Sethna's 18th West Bombay Scout Group, established in 1914, is the oldest continuously running Scout Group in India. Evelyn Norah Shullai: Guide, Guider. Bhuvaneshwar Prasād Sinha: President, Bharat Scouts and Guides. Ammu Swāmīnāthan: President, Bharat Scouts and Guides. Rameshwar Thākur
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts recognizes at most one Guiding organization per country. Some countries have several organizations combined as a federation, with different component groups divided on the basis of religions (France, Denmark), ethnic identification (Israel) or language (Belgium).
This category lists the national Scouting organizations within the World Organization of the Scout Movement as well as the national sub-federations and -associations, which are affiliated to a WOSM-member. For a listing by country see List of World Organization of the Scout Movement members
The World Federation of Independent Scouts (WFIS) is a non-governmental international Scouting organization with over 7 million members in 151 affiliated Scout organizations in 65 countries. [1] WFIS was formed in Laubach , Germany , in 1996 by Lawrie Dring , a British Scouter with the independent Baden-Powell Scouts' Association (BPSA).
In 1920, a conference held during the 1st World Scout Jamboree at Olympia, London agreed to create a Boy Scouts international bureau. An office was established at 25 Buckingham Palace Road, London and The Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom International Commissioner, Hubert S. Martin, was appointed as honorary director.
The following is a list of the major existing intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). For a more complete listing, see the Yearbook of International Organizations , [ 1 ] which includes 25,000 international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), excluding for-profit enterprises, about 5,000 IGOs, and lists dormant and dead organizations as ...