Adjusting their blue ties, checking if the metallic pin is on straight before standing in formation to commence their weekly meetings, a Girl Guide company coming into session is a quietly ceremonial event. “Be prepared is our motto,” Chief Commissioner Sri Lanka Girl Guides (SLGG) Yasmin Raheem says, which was perhaps the thinking that led Jennie Claverly Green almost 100 ...
Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, died 8 January 1941 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB, DL (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Boy Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide / Girl Scout Movement. Baden-Powell authored the first editions of the seminal work Scouting for Boys, which was an inspiration for ...
Sri Lanka’s scouting chronicle is almost as old as the pioneering movement in England launched by Lord Baden Powell in 1907. The scout movement here was launched locally in 1912 by the British civil servant, F.G. Stevenson, at Christ King’s College, Matale. Next year Dharmaraja College, Kandy, established their troop under the stewardship of J.H. de Saram. "Since the troop ...
World Scout BP Day, observed annually on February 22nd, is a tribute to the legacy of Baron Robert Baden-Powell, born in 1857, widely acknowledged as the trailblazer of scouting. This day serves as a global commemoration of the invaluable contributions of scouts and guides, recognizing their selfless service to communities worldwide.Lord Robert Baden-Powell talks to a group of Kings Scouts, ...
