Scouts: another school of life

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American scouts during Memorial Day ceremonies in May 2009. AFP / Karen Bleier

By: Charlie Dupiot Follow

57 mins

Born in 1907 in England, the scout movement now has 60 million members in 200 countries.

This educational movement of Christian origin is intended to complete the training of children and adolescents through collective and outdoor activities, by instilling in them values ​​such as respect, mutual aid and solidarity with the aim of making them citizens. responsible.

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Whether they are lay Catholics, Protestants, Hebrews or Muslims, all these groups are united within a French Federation, itself a member of an international federation which includes many African countries.

Why still so much enthusiasm, more than a century after the birth of this movement?

How does Scouting participate in the development and education of children and adolescents?

With

:

Charles-Édouard Harang

, historian, teacher in preparatory literary classes at the Jeanne d'Arc high school and at the University of Rouen.

Author of

Adventure by Nature.

100 years of the Scouts and Guides of France

 (Les Presses d'Ile-de-France, the Editions des Scouts et Guides de France)

Jean-Paul Ibikounlé

 trainer in Beninese scouting and journalist at the Office of Broadcasting and Television of Benin ORTB

AÏchatou

, 22 years old, guide in Beninese scouting and student in information and communication at the University of Abomey Calavi (Benin)

And a report in a troop of Cubs and Cubs in France by 

Amélie Beaucour

.

We take the direction of Arny in Essonne in the south-east of Paris, where the Scouts and Guides of France from the 12th arrondissement of Paris have left to camp.

A group stay which brought together all age groups and therefore all the colors of shirts in the forest, before the summer camps.

On the menu: outdoor games, mosquito bites and songs by the fire.

--- BoB Scouts (Cut-5'53)

Musical programming:

► Together we are better 

- BeScout

The lion and the gazelle

- Framix

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