Boy Scouts 100 years old today!!!

 

Scouting – 100 Years Old in 2007

 

There are more than 28 million Scouts, young people and adults, male and female, in 216 countries and territories. Some 300 million people have been Scouts, including prominent people in every field.

 

This is impressive considering that Scouting began with 20 boys and an experimental camp in 1907. It was held during the first nine days of August in 1907 at Brownsea Island, near Poole in Dorset, England.

 

The camp was a great success and proved to its organiser, Robert Baden-Powell, that his training and methods appealed to young people and really worked.

 

In January 1908, he published the first “Scouting for Boys”, a book issued in fortnightly parts at four pence each. It was an immediate success. Baden-Powell had only intended to provide a method of training boys, something that existing youth organizations such as the Boys’ Brigade and Y.M.C.A. could adopt. To his surprise, youngsters started to organise themselves into what was destined to become – and is today – the world’s largest voluntary youth movement.*

 

 

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