Scouting, Volume 54, Number 10, December 1966 Page: 1
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Through the World Friendship Fund
«T here is mighty power in even one single act of
goodwill," said a former British Chief Scout in
commenting on the London newsboy whose Good Turn
to an American businessman in 1909 led to the organiza-
tion of the Boy Scouts of America.
Today, more than 5 million Scouts and Scouters in the
United States are pledged to be "helpful, friendly, cour-
teous, kind . . And you, as a Scout leader, aren't you
pledged to help them live up to the Law of the Pack,
the Scout Law, the Explorer Code?
Sure you are. And there's a way you can help your
boys help Scouts in a country not so favored materially
as ours. It's through the World Friendship Fund of the
Boy Scouts of America. It exists for just one reason: to
help brother Scouts around the world to help themselves.
But right now funds are low while the needs keep in-
creasing.
In recent years your contributions to the fund have
made it possible for upward of 200 Latin American Scout
leaders to attend five Spanish-speaking training schools
for them at Schiff Scout Reservation near Mendham, N.J.
In addition, 140 men from 32 other countries have been
helped through Scout leadership training at Schiff.
All of Latin America is benefiting from the training
equipment and handbooks we have provided the Inter-
American region of the Boy Scouts World Bureau. Our
most recent help has furnished manuals in Spanish.
For the Scouts of China (Taiwan) we recently paid
half the cost of publishing 6,000 handbooks and half the
cost of a truck.
South Vietnamese Boy Scouts during the past year
received 3,000 yards of material for making tents as
well as training equipment consisting of first aid kits,
compasses, water pails, and blankets.
Congolese Boy Scouts received similar training aids as
well as filmstrips, a projector, a mimeograph, and a type-
writer.
Blind Scouts in Nigeria, Kenya, India, Scotland,
Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Trinidad, Tobago, South
Africa, Ceylon, and Cyprus have been cheered with sub-
scriptons to Braille editions of Boys' Life magazine
and Scout handbooks. We also have provided recordings
of the handbook through the Talking Book Series.
World Jamboree projects
The XII World Jamboree will be held in Idaho next
August 1-9. The theme is "For Friendship." We will
be hosts to more than 10,000 Scouts from many countries.
Some of them will be there because of your Cubs', Scouts',
and Explorers' contributions to special projects of the
World Friendship Fund this winter and spring.
The World Friendship Fund will supply tents and
cooking gear, at a low rental, for Jamboree contingents
that are unable to bring any from their own countries.
Other projects will help relieve the serious monetary
restrictions imposed by some countries.
An invitation has been extended to all national Scout
Associations for their contingents to spend a week as
guests of our local councils, living in Scout homes and
participating in community activities. The groups will,
of necessity, be traveling long distances from the Jambo-
ree in order to accept our hospitality. Some contingents
will be unable to do this unless we help with travel
expenses.
Even though most of us will not get to the Jamboree,
we can be there in spirit, through our support of the
World Friendship Fund and participation in our local
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A few of the Scout and Scouter books provided through your World Friendship
Fund for, left to right, Spanish speaking countries, Vietnam, Korea, and Kenya.
This scene at the World Jamboree in Greece is on the cover of folders, recently sent to councils for every Cubmaster, Scoutmaster,
and Explorer Advisor, telling how units can help brother Scouts around the world to help themselves.
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