Scouting in Madagascar : World Scout Day by Hotel★★★ Gourmet Restaurant Coco Lodge Majunga
World Scout Day by Hotel ★★★ Gourmet restaurant Coco Lodge Majunga
En 2007, World Scout day coincided with the centenary of Scouting … an opportunity to take a new look on the “boy scouts” and their founder Lord Robert Baden-Powell …
A bit of history …
The founder, P.O. BOX, convinced that could bring enormously to young people by offering them to become “actors” their own education, has laid the foundations of Scouting during a first camp became famous in Brownsea Island … make live youth autonomy, with a young man at their head, get them to take care in respect of a common code, the “Scout law”…
This first camp meeting in which the maximum ten people are born within a few years of very many Scout movements in all countries (except totalitarian…) representing globally hundreds of thousands of scouts, guides, Scouts, Cubs, etc…
Scouting today
Even if staff are more those of the immediate future after second world war, Scouting always thrilled many young, whether in France, in Europe or in the rest of the world… International gatherings are organized periodically (Jamboree, eurojam) each summer very many camps where they settled in the countryside, generally outside the beaten !
HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY ON SCOUTING IN MADAGASCAR
Scouting was founded first in Madagascar by Catholics from 1925 at the initiative of the RP of du Mas de Paysac .. The SDF directory 1930 mentions the existence of a province of Madagascar with a troupe in Tamatave and two in Antananarivo.
Protestant Scouting will also soon appear in the big island and is y most importantly develop seems as the SDF. Jean Beigbeder (Totem : Z' eye of OWL, 1894-1965) is the founder among 1924 and 1927. He returned to Madagascar from 1934 to 1938. His biography was published in the "Biographical Dictionary of activists' published in 1996 editions L'Harmattan under the direction of Geneviève Poujol and Madeleine Romer, p 42. Beigbeder had previously played an important role at the unionist Scouts in France. It is one of the founders and national Commissioner 1914. Must be among its many other responsibilities president of french of Scouting 1949 to 1952. A picture of Z' eye was published by Arnaud Baubérot in his book "the invention of a Christian Scouting., The unionist Scouts, 1911-1921 », Ed the shepherds and the Magi, 1997. This is the edition of its mastery of history.
"The Chief" of the Scouts de France magazine has published in its 291 January 1953 an article from 5 pages about the history of Scouting in Madagascar. Troops Malagasy will appear in the years 30. The first camp-school SDF will take place in 1937 in Antananarivo. Difficulties will arise between the clergy and the SDF. The article is discreet about the subject. He noted with deletion of units and a strong competition of the hearts Vaillants, "much broader organization., "open to all and whose clerics provide frameworks.. Decidedly, the debates are the same in the tropics and in France...
A major rally in 1950 will bring together 450 SDF. It will mark a malgachization of Scouting with the drafting of a law adapted to the culture and local realities. The Malagasy Commissioners will be appointed and Scout manuals translated into Malagasy language.
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