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4 unusual facts about World Organization of the Scout Movement


Amateur radio operator

WOSM's annual Jamboree On The Air is Scouting's largest activity, with a half million Scouts and Guides speaking with each other using amateur radio each October.

Leslie Whateley

In 1965, she 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".

Mortimer L. Schiff

Schiff was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, granted by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.

He was a member of the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the Theodore Roosevelt Council Executive Board.


Lars Kolind

Kolind has received the highest international award of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, the Bronze Wolf Award and the Boy Scouts of America Silver World Award and Kolind is a member of the Baden-Powell World Fellowship.

Salvador Fernández Beltrán

He later served as General Secretary of the Inter-American Advisory Committee, assisting in the creation of the InterAmerican Scout Office, the divisional office of the World Scout Bureau of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, founded and maintained with headquarters in Havana from 1946 to 1960.


see also

Scouting and Guiding in Kenya

The Africa Region of the World Organization of the Scout Movement has its main office in Nairobi, Kenya.