Scouting, Volume 60, Number 1, January-February 1972 Page: 36
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A small boy in a village in an
emerging African nation thinks
his Scout leader is the greatest guy
in the world. The man has made
Scouting something the boy plays,
dreams and almost eats—and he
hasn't much to eat—literally.
A boy in Central America has a
Boy Scout Handbook, well-worn
from use by half the boy's patrol.
Another boy in India runs his
fingers over the bumpy brown pages
of a large magazine. It's an issue of
Boys' Life in braille.
These three Scouts have been
reached by helping hands extended
by brother Scouts through the BSA
World Friendship Fund.
The African Scout's leader runs
such a gung-ho troop because he
learned how in a community devel-
opment course. It was conducted
by the World Scout Bureau in Da-
homey and Tanzania where new in-
dependent Scout associations have
been formed. (Associations are na-
tional organizations.) His travel
expenses for the course were paid
by the World Friendship Fund. Part
of the training was done with equip-
ment supplied by the Fund.
The Central American Scout can
read his handbook because it is
printed in his own language, adapt-
able to the Scout program in most
Spanish-speaking countries south
of the border. Publication was
financed with a grant from the
World Friendship Fund.
The blind Indian Scout reads
the braille copy of Boys' Life in
a library of a school for the blind.
Similar copies, paid for by the
Fund, are sent to 36 schools, mostly
in Asia.
Our World Friendship Fund was
involved in these three Good Turns
with a long reach just as it has been
in hundreds of others in the last 27
years—through money, material
and brotherhood. The Fund is con-
sidering requests for additional aid
to the needs of emerging nations,
mostly in Africa. (These countries
prefer the term "emerging" rather
than "underdeveloped.")
Other recent projects completed
by the World Friendship Fund cover
these situations:
Seven national leaders from Thai-
land, Taiwan and the Philippines re-
ceived special training at the BSA
National Executive Institute at
Schiff Scout Reservation. Their ex-
penses were met with scholarships
from the Fund.
Establishment of Camp Rowal-
lan, an international site in Kenya
near Baden-Powell's grave, was
financed by the Fund.
Each summer approximately 140
older Scouts and leaders bring the
flavor of Scouting from other lands
to this country by serving on coun-
cil camp staffs. The Fund shares
their expenses with them and the
councils.
Without doubt, the best way for
Scouts to foster world brotherhood
and understanding among them-
selves is to exchange visits—camp
together, go to troop meetings to-
gether, live in one anothers' homes.
Since the chief obstacle to these
activities is limited funds, the ob-
stacle can be turned into the next
best medium of exchange of friend-
ship by contributing to the World
Friendship Fund.
Founded in 1945 to help rebuild
Scouting in war devastated coun-
tries of the free world, the Fund has
sent more than $300,000 to brother
Scouts. It is administered by the
BSA International Relations Divi-
sion. Through close cooperation
with Scouters in other lands, the
staff learns where the needs are
most urgent and knows how to
work through the technicalities of
foreign exchange, customs and the
shipping of goods.
The need for contributions con-
tinues to be great with the contin-
ual growth of world population.
Contributing to the Fund can be full
of meaning when it is explained in
an appropriate setting at a pack,
troop or post meeting.
Briefly this is accomplished by
the unit's adopting a World Friend-
ship project, conducting a world
brotherhood meeting, collecting the
World Firendship gifts and sending
them to:
International Relations
Boy Scouts of America
North Brunswick, N J. 08902
Program suggestions (games,
songs, recipes from various coun-
tries), a special brochure for each
boy and a transmittal envelope for
contributions may be obtained by
returning the attached card. (If
there is no card, contact your unit
leader. Cards were included only in
copies of Scouting Magazine sent
to leaders of troops, packs and dens,
and to their assistants.)
The project may be carried on at
any time, but an appropriate time
is the Anniversary Celebration of
the Boy Scouts of America in Febru-
ary. For more details about world
brotherhood, write to the Interna-
tional Relations office given above.
Wherever the contributions go, if
our Cubs, Scouts and Explorers
understand what their sharing
means, they will be involved in a
great, basic American tradition and
will be developing a character trait
that will stand them in good stead
throughout their lives. ^
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