The Comunidade do Escutismo Lusófono (CEL, ''Community of Lusophone Scouting'') is the international community of

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 ...

organizations in the

Lusophone Lusophones ( pt, Lusófonos) are ethnic group, peoples that speak Portuguese language, Portuguese as a native language, native or as common second language and nations where Portuguese features prominently in society. Comprising an estimated 270 m ...

countries. Its members are: *

Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , coordina ...

: Associação de Escuteiros de Angola *

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

União dos Escoteiros do Brasil The União dos Escoteiros do Brasil (UEB, ''Union of Brazilian Scouts'') is the national Scouting organization of Brazil. Scouting in Brazil was founded in 1910 and was among the charter members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1 ...

Cape Verde , national_anthem = () , official_languages = Portuguese , national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole , capital = Praia , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym ...

: Associação dos Escuteiros de Cabo Verde *

Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...

Liga dos Escuteiros de Moçambique The Liga dos Escuteiros de Moçambique (LEMO), the national Scouting organization of Mozambique, was founded in 1994, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1999. The coeducational Liga dos Escuteiros de Moçambiq ...

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

Federação Escotista de Portugal The Federação Escotista de Portugal (also ''Federação Escutista de Portugal''; FEP, ''Scouting Federation of Portugal'') is the national Scouting federation of Portugal. Scouting in Portugal started in 1911 and was among the founders of the ...

with the

Associação dos Escoteiros de Portugal The Associação dos Escoteiros de Portugal (AEP, ''Scout Association of Portugal'') is a youth organization concerned with education and the development of civil character. It was the first Scouting organization in Portugal, being established in ...

and the Corpo Nacional de Escutas - Escutismo Católico Português The ''Grupo de Escuteiros Lusófonos de Macau'' in

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...

is affiliated to the ''Corpo Nacional de Escutas''. Lusophone Scouting organizations without membership in the CEL are the União Nacional dos Escuteiros de Timor Leste in

East Timor East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-weste ...

, the

Corpo Nacional de Escutas da Guiné-Bissau The Corpo Nacional de Escutas da Guiné-Bissau (CNE-GB; roughly ''National Scout Corps of Guinea-Bissau'') was the national Catholic Scouting organization of Guinea-Bissau. The co-educational association served about 1,500 members in 2007. It wa ...

Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau ( ; pt, Guiné-Bissau; ff, italic=no, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫 𞤄𞤭𞤧𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤮, Gine-Bisaawo, script=Adlm; Mandinka: ''Gine-Bisawo''), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau ( pt, República da Guiné-Bissau, links=no ) ...

and the Associação de Escuteiros de São Tomé e Príncipe in

São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe (; pt, São Tomé e Príncipe (); English: " Saint Thomas and Prince"), officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe ( pt, República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe), is a Portuguese-speaking i ...

. The CEL is based on the ''Carta do Escutismo Lusófono'' (''Charter of Lusophone Scouting''), formulated during the

18th World Scout Jamboree The 18th World Scout Jamboree (Dutch: ''18e Wereldjamboree'') was held August 1 to 11, 1995 and was hosted by the Netherlands on a polder near Biddinghuizen, Dronten community, Flevoland. 28,960 Scouts and staff members from 166 countries and ter ...

Dronten Dronten () is a municipality and a town in the central Netherlands, in the province of Flevoland. It had a population of in . History Plans for the municipality of Dronten were made in the early half of the 1950s; real plans for the town of Dr ...

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

on August 6, 1995. The original signatory organizations were the ''Corpo Nacional de Escutas - Escutismo Católico Português'', the ''União dos Escoteiros do Brasil'', the ''Corpo Nacional de Escutas da Guiné-Bissau'' and the ''Associação de Escuteiros de São Tomé e Príncipe''. Main aims of the CEL are the cooperation between its members, the admission of non-recognised Lusophone Scouting organizations to

World Organization of the Scout Movement The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM ) is the largest international Scouting organization. WOSM has 173 members. These members are recognized national Scout organizations, which collectively have around 43 million participants. WOS ...

(WOSM) membership and the promotion of the

Portuguese language Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and ...

as means of international communication. Since 1995 the Scouting organizations of Angola, Cape Verde and Mozambique have become members of WOSM.

References

External links

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