Scout Scarf Day

Hathi was unable to wear his Scarf on "World Scout Scarf Day" however he did make a collage of all the scarves that he collected as a Scouter.

 

His collection included Scarves given to him by contingent leaders of Scouts from Kenya and Scouts from Mauritius as thanks for the local hospitality given to them whilst they were visiting South Africa to attend a South African Scout Jamboree.

 

He has called his collection "Memories" as each Scarf has an association to a Scouting event.

 

 

A Scouts Honour - working with the community

Detail received in an e-mail sent to our Scout Group

To whom it may concern, 

We would like to bring to your attention that we created a post on our blog about the work your Scout Group did at Oliver’s Village. Please check out http://olivershouse.co.za/scouts-honour/. We trust that the contents of the post are to your satisfaction. Also, we thank your organisation for your kind endeavours and hope we will see more of you.

Yours sincerely, 

David Sellar

 

An extract from Oliver's Village blog page

Oliver’s House was privileged to have the Harmelia Gardens Air Scout Group nominateOliver’s Village as the project at which many of their Cubs and Scouts carried out voluntary community service. Oliver’s Village is our flagship project. It is situated on the border of Daveyton and Benoni on eleven acres of property. Oliver’s Village is still under development and in its completed state will be home to a wide variety of social services – including a HIV AIDS clinic, pre-school, educational learning centre and a five acre self-sustaining food forest and vegetable farm.

These young Scouts were led by Greg who is currently in the process of earning the highest award a young Scout can achieve – the Springbok Award. In order to achieve this Greg has to perform 40 hours of community service and perform one exceptional task. Greg and his fellow Scouts spent two weekends at Oliver’s Village performing various farming tasks from re-composting soil to general farm clean-up. As his exceptional task Greg chose to clean our hydroponic tunnel – no easy task considering that we are in the process of redesigning it to produce stronger vegetable yields. Please visit the blog page above to see all the photos.

Well done to the Cubs and Scouts that assisted with the project, Hathi.

Senior Scout Adventure 2014

The Adventure programme provides unforgettable adventure and fun in the famous backpacking country of the Cederberg Wilderness Area along rugged, rocky trails. Programme features combine the best of advanced Scouting to provide you with fun and a real challenge - water activities, rock climbing, the ultimate challenge game, underwater diving, sailing, and many more! This is an unbeatable recipe for fast-moving enjoyment and action. If you are a senior Scout, 15 years or older, and you are looking for high adventure and an outdoor challenge in a famous mountain wilderness, then the SENIOR SCOUT ADVENTURE in December has been designed for you!

Come and experience the feeling of adventure and achievement backpacking and climbing in a vast unspoilt wilderness well known for its unique features like the Wolfberg Cracks, the Wolfberg Arch, and the Maltese Cross. Enjoy the soaring peaks like the Tafelberg, Groot Krakadouw and the Sneeuberg with their cliffs, pinnacles, ravines and valleys. When hiking along the high trails, thrill to the eye-stretching sweep of the peaks marching into the blue haze of distance. 

For more information visit http://www.scouting.org.za/adventure/

Save-a-Place entries for hiking participants to attend this adventure close at the end of this month on 31 July 2014.

Scout Patrols comprise a maximum of 9 Scouts between the age of 15 and 18 and one adult Mountain Ranger.

Your questions may be answered by looking at www.scouting.org.za/adventure/Downloads/InformationBooklet2014.pdf.

Scout Scarf Day : 1st August 2014

The idea of "World Scout Scarf Day" on August 1 is that all active and former Scouts are requested to wear their Scout scarf in public to make the "Spirit of Scouting" visible: Once a Scout - Always a Scout !  

You can visit www.facebook.com/Scout.Scarf.Day to see more detail   

In 2011 the day coincided with the World Jamboree in Sweden which was a perfect opportunity to show the close bond to all the Scouts attending.

Of course, the scarf is only a symbol but a strong symbol for the Scout Promise and for our mission to leave the world as a bit better a place than we had found it.

Our scarf colours are shown above for all to see. We wonder how many other Scouts wear the same colours. Please email us and tell us your Scout Group name and we will add it to the detail below with your website address.

1. Harmelia Gardens Air Scouts

Save our Rhinos

Some detail below taken from the website http://www.givengain.com/cause/4273/

23 May 2013: The number of rhinos poached in South Africa since the beginning of 2014 now stands at 350. The Kruger National Park continues to bear the brunt of the poaching, with 242 rhinos having been killed in the National Park since the beginning of 2014. In the North West province a total of 29 rhinos have been poached, while 28 have been poached in Limpopo, 33 in KwaZulu-Natal and 17 in Mpumalanga. The Gauteng province lost its first rhino to poaching this year during the past week.

RHINO SA Project is a youth-driven, outreach and awareness initiative aimed at educating today's youth about the unmitigated and ongoing slaughter of South Africa's rhinos, and, thereby actively involving the youth of South Africa in Rhino Conservation and Heritage Preservation. 

The Green Wall of SEE Project - Rhino SA Project are touching the lives of 2000 to 4000 pupils a week through their education and awareness program.

Attached above is a picture that was coloured in by one of our Scouts who attends the school at which this program was launched. The Scout gave the picture to Hathi (me, the name the Cubs in our Group call me) as he knew I love pictures of all wild animals.

Gauteng KonTiki 2014

Our Troop participated in the annual Gauteng Scouting event, KonTiki.  This year the theme was "KonTiki Goes Green" thus protecting our world. The event was held at the Scouting Camp Site, Arrowe Park in Benoni which is on the shore of Homestead Lake.

Some YouTube videos of the activities done at the event have been posted on YouTube and they can be viewed using the indicated links

Part 1:       http://youtu.be/bESGQTc2Eu8

Part 2:      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-0abF-juKc&list=UULtLWfCQNFtksedqg4D3p6A

Part 3:      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZLxs0cSZDQ&feature=share

Our Scout Group would like to thank those involved in the production of the YouTube videos. These give a great insight into one of the Scouting activities Scouts participate.

New Scouts South Africa website

SCOUTS South Africa launched the 1st phase of the development of the new national website.

 

The aim of the website is to reinforce the fresh, dynamic and innovative brand and to cater for the needs of many audiences.

 

The website address of the new site is http://scouts.org.za/. The old website address will automatically route you to the new site.

 

The screen capture shows some detail of the "Home" page and that of the "Our Team" page. 

 

Congratulations.