Scouting Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking ...

was introduced in

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...

in 1970. In July 1999, the Bhutan Scout Tshogpa, (

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: འབྲུག་ཨིསི་ཀའུཊ་ཚོགས་པ་) the coeducational Bhutan Scouts Association, was welcomed as a member of the

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at the 35th World Scout Conference in

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. Membership stood at 18,170 as of 2011. Since 1995, Unit Leader Training courses were organized by the World Scout Bureau- Asia-Pacific Region with the assistance of

the Bharat Scouts and Guides The Bharat Scouts and Guides (BSG) is the national Scouting and Guiding association of India. The national headquarters of BSG is recognised by the Government of India. Scouting was founded in India in 1909 as an overseas branch of the Scout ...

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, the

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, and the Canadian Scout Brotherhood Fund. Scouts from Bhutan participated in the 1998

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, in the

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and in the

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in the

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. The remote

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hosted the Asia-Pacific Regional First

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-Scout Friendship Camp from February 21 to 26, 2002, in which hundreds of Scouts and Leaders in the districts of Thimphu,

Punakha Punakha ( dz, སྤུ་ན་ཁ་) is the administrative centre of Punakha dzongkhag, one of the 20 districts of Bhutan. Punakha was the capital of Bhutan and the seat of government until 1955, when the capital was moved to Thimphu. It is abo ...

and

Wangdue Wangdue Phodrang District (Dzongkha: དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Dbang-'dus Pho-brang rdzong-khag''; previously spelled "Wangdi Phodrang") is a dzongkhag (district) of central Bhutan. This i ...

participated. "Regional Cooperation" was the theme of the camp, in which 550 girls and boys from all South Asian countries participated. The first National Jamboree was held from January 31 to February 6, 2007

In November 2008 the Scouts helped to prepare the Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck#Ascension to the throne, Coronation Celebrations, cleaning the streets of

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. The membership badge of Bhutan Scout Tshogpa incorporates the color scheme of the

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, and the

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is wrapped in a ''

khata A ''khata'' or ''khatag'', ''dhar'', Mongolian: mn, хадаг, label=none, , or ; ne, खतक ; . is a traditional ceremonial scarf in Tibetan Buddhism and in tengerism. It originated in Tibetan culture and is common in cultures and cou ...

'', the traditional ceremonial scarf. The

Scout Motto The Scout Motto of the Scout movement is, in English, "Be Prepared", with most international branches of the group using a close translation of that phrase. These mottoes have been used by millions of Scouts around the world since 1907. Most of t ...

is གྲ་འགྲིག་འབད་ གྲ་འགྲིག་འབད་,''Dra drig Bay''.

References

*http://scouts.elysiumgates.com/bhutan.html {{WOSM, asia World Organization of the Scout Movement member organizations Scouting in Bhutan Youth organizations established in 1970

See also

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