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 ...
exists in
Western Sahara both as part of the
Fédération Nationale du Scoutisme Marocain as well as independent groups.
*Scouting (Scouts de Sahara ( ar, منظمة الكشاف الشعبي) is being developed in
Laayoune with the assistance of
Scouts from the
Association of Scouts of the Canary Islands.
*Spanish Scouts have established contacts with the Moroccan ''Scoutisme Hassania Marocain'', a member of the Fédération Nationale du Scoutisme Marocain
*The Youth Union of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro has decided to start a Scout movement, but it is unclear if any groups exist
This movement is collaborating with the Organización Juvenil Española, a Spanish Scout-like organizatio
*Saharan Scouts are also purported to exist in the refugee camp
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s of Tindouf, Algeria. The embassy of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Algeria uses "Movimiento de Exploradores saharaui" and translates this as "Scouts
.
* Scouts et Guides de France, Les Guides de France, the French
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Girl Guiding
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movement, organized an international forum in 2001 about the major problems in society and today's world. Alongside the Italian, Welsh
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, and Polish
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delegations, and associated organizations including the Comité catholique contre la faim et pour le développement
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, Khadidja Hamdi
Khadidja Hamdi ( ar, خَديجة حَمْدي) is a Sahrawi politician and activist. She is one of two women ministers in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) Government and holds the post Minister for Culture.
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, Saharawi parliamentarian in charge of information and culture in the National Union of Sahrawi Women
The National Union of Sahrawi Women (Spanish: ''Unión Nacional de Mujeres Saharauis'', UNMS) is the women's wing of the Polisario Front. It was created in 1974, and claims to have 10,000 members, divided between the Sahrawi refugee camps, the '' ...
, as well as Régine Villemont, general secretary of the French Association of Friends of SADR, took part in leading a discussion on peace. The Guides de France from Aix en Provence welcomed a group of eleven Saharawi children
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in 2001.
The Scout Motto is ''Kun Musta'idan'' or كن مستعدين, translating as ''Be Prepared'' in Arabic. The noun for a single Scout is ''Kashaf'' or كشاف in Arabic.
Notes
Western Sahara is disputed territory, not presently independent. The two main claimants are the Kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front independence movement (and government of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic or SADR), who dispute control of the territory. Since a United Nations-sponsored cease-fire agreement in 1991, most of the territory has been controlled by Morocco, with the remainder under the control of Polisario/SADR. As the international Scouting movement is an educational youth movement, it takes a neutral position on each side's claims, and the existence of Scouting on the land area of Western Sahara does not imply any official position in the dispute.
See also
{{Portal, Scouting, Western Sahara
References
*Information derived from reports of Luis Meiras Aranega of the Federación de Asociaciones de Scouts de España in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
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, who assists Scouts in Western Sahara.
Non-aligned Scouting organizations
Organizations based in Western Sahara
Western Sahara