17 February 2009
Baden-Powell Visited by Baden-Clay
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The World Organization of the Scouting Movement has tracked Lord Baden-Powell’s young descendant to the final resting place of the Boy Scouts’ founder.
NAIROBI – Mr Adam Baden-Clay and his wife Nicole have been in Kenya for the past 10 months, on various missions. They for the first time visited the last resting place of their great grandparents—Robert Baden Powell and his wife Olave — in Nyeri, they informed the Kenyan Daily Nation (16 February 2009). During their stay, they also got to visit the Africa Regional office (ARO) of Scouting and interacted with staff members.
They have been conducting mentorship programmes for the youth. Their visit coincided with preparations for the 13th World Scout Moot, to be hosted by Kenya in July 2010.
The Baden-Clays also had come to learn more about the Extension Scout Programme, a project of the Kenya Scouts Association.
Before leaving for Australia, the couple intends to participate in this year’s Founder’s Day on 22 February 2009 in Nyeri, Kenya.
In Girl Scouts we celebrate it with Thinking Day. We’re representing an African country this year: Morocco. I’m still trying to convince the rest of the troop to do a country further south like the Congo. Now that would be fun!
If like, me you’ve never heard of a World Scout Moot then clickhere to find the Wikipedia entry on it. Basically it’s the World Jamboree for adult-aged Scouts. I’m not sure why there’s a need for a moot when there’s already a Jamboree, but I guess older Scouts wanted something exclusive. Meh.
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One Comment so far...
Walter Underwood Says:
18 February 2009 at 7:45 pm.
A Rover Moot is a gathering for Rover Scouts, the next step after Venturing. The BSA doesn’t have Rovers, though there have been a few wildcat Rover units. The Dan Beard Rovers seem to have disappeared from the internet. Rovers are still quite active in Australia.
The term “rover” comes from Baden-Powell’s book “Rovering to Success”, on-line in a couple of editions: http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/rts.pdf and http://www.archive.org/details/roveringtosucces00badeuoft
