I bet you have ever heard about children who go camping or boy scouts, in fact, maybe you imagine them selling cookies and wearing badges, because that's the image we have got about them.
The truth is that boy scouts belong to a non-profit movement called Scouting, one of the biggest of the world, created in 1907 by the British Robert Smith Baden Powell in view of the England situation for that epoch; young people were becoming lazy and drug addicts, that is, the deliquents of the future.
For this illustrious there was no better way to approach it; with the execution of a youth camp to teach, reform and counteract the evident decline of children.
This is how, from that moment everything began; Scouting has spread in almost every country in the world to this date, with the fundamental goal of forming citizens.
Scout education covers a long list of extraordinary topics that aren't in a conventional school. From the handling of tools, first aid, use of ropes, even to primitive gastronomy, in conclusion; they teach us to survive.
Scouting, besides promoting the contact of man with nature through camps and excursions, has the great peculiarity of using fun games and didactic activities as a teaching method, this is where young people learn out of a classroom, without leaving aside social work and voluntary help to others.
Undoubtedly, Scouting provides an additional but significant education for infants and adolescents in the short and long term, one of the best investments of time and thus, try to leave the world in better conditions than we found it.
This is just a summary of our international project, later you will be participants of much more information.
And no, we don't really sell cookies...
Until next time!
«Camping is the best school to give qualities of character to boys.» Robert Baden Powell