Muscat, November 2 (ONA) - The General Directorate of Scouts and Girl Guides launched today an initiative to register volunteer work committees with the aim of promoting volunteering among members of the Scout and Guide Movement.
Dr. Yaqoub bin Khalfan Al-Nadabi, Director General of the General Directorate of Scouts and Girl Guides, said that the launch of the initiative comes within the framework of supporting the efforts of the General Directorate of Scouts and Girl Guides to activate a number of voluntary work committees to carry out some required tasks and actions according to the terms of reference of each committee and in accordance with the strategic plans at the national, Arab and international levels in the field of scout and guide work.
He pointed out that the initiative is based on promoting volunteer work and the values of citizenship among the members of the Scout and Guide Movement, consolidating the concept of giving in society, investing their time and directing their energies in serving and developing the community, adding that the importance of volunteer work lies in feeling others and enabling members of the scout and guide movement to engage in field work, upgrading the scouting and guiding movement, and training them in crisis management.
He explained that the initiative is aimed primarily at supervisors and leaders of the roving clans, as well as scout and guide leaders, as well as the directorate's employees, heads of scouts and guides departments, supervisors of scout and guide activity in the directorates of the educational governorates, in addition to the pioneers of the scout and guide movement.
Dr. Yaqoub bin Khalfan Al-Nadabi explained that the number of members of the scout and guide movement for the academic year 2018/2019 at the governorate level reached 27,523, distributed as follows: the buds (681), the cubs (3741), the flowers (3776), the scouts (7827), the advanced scouts (2040), the marine scouts (472), the advanced marine scouts (64), the female guides (6640) and the advanced female guides (2144). The number of members of the scouting and guiding movement in private, international schools and community schools reached 138, while the total number of members of the scout and guide movement of female and male rovers reached 1077.
(ONA)