When Lord Baden-Powell published ‘Scouting for Boys’ in 1907, he could not have foreseen that his idea about non-formal education would start a movement that today involves more than 40 million girls and boys throughout 200 countries and territories, all participating in weekly outdoor activities while learning values, team spirit and new practical skills.
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On Monaco 27th January, the European Scout Foundation visited Monaco for the first time to welcome new members to the foundation. The event took place at the new headquarters of the Association des Guides et Scouts de Monaco in Fontvieille.
The European Scout Foundation is an international charity organisation linked to the World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM), whose mission is to provide financial support for the development of Scouting in Europe, with a main emphasis on projects of National Scout Organisations in Central and Eastern Europe. The foundation raises money to support various children and their leaders by facilitating tents, cooking material, first aid kits, camping and transport facilities for their activities.
Former scouts and guides living in the Principality were given information on the current projects that the European Scout Foundation is supporting in Lithuania, Montenegro and North Macedonia. Among the new members who joined the foundation are the Association des Guides et Scouts de Monaco, Marc Kerauden, Michelle Lucas, Peter and Christel Grut, Lauren Coles, José Semerdjan, and many more.
The first scouts and guides activities in Monaco started in the decade of 1920 with the support of the French Scouts and Guides. In 1963, the Guides de Monaco became full members of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS). In 1992 the Scouts and the Guides merged into the current co-educative Association des Guides et Scouts de Monaco (AGSM), and in 2014 the World Organisation of the Scout Movement also granted full membership status to the local organisation.
Nowadays, more than one hundred children and adult volunteers participate in the regular activities. The Monegasque organisation is under the Royal Patronage of H.R.H. The Princess of Hanover, a former guide.
 
 
 
 
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