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Guiding and Scouting in Belgium

{{Short description|Federation of Belgian Scout and Guide organizations}}

{{infobox WorldScouting

|name=Guiding and Scouting in Belgium

|namelabel1=Dutch

|name1=Gidsen- en Scoutsbeweging in België

|namelabel2=French

|name2=Guidisme et Scoutisme en Belgique

|namelabel3=German

|name3=Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder in Belgien

|type = organization

|image =Guides and Scouts Movement of Belgium.svg

|caption =

|headquarters =Brussels

|location =

|country = Belgium

|f-date = 1979

|founder =

|members = 175,000

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|chiefscout =

|owner =

|website = {{URL|http://www.guiding-scouting.be/}}

|affiliation = World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, World Organization of the Scout Movement

}}

Gidsen- en Scoutsbeweging in België (Dutch) or Guidisme et Scoutisme en Belgique (French) (GSB) is the national Guiding and Scouting federation in Belgium. Scouting in Belgium started in 1911, and Guiding followed in 1915. The Belgian Scouts were among the charter members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) in 1922, and the Guides were one of the founding members of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) in 1928. The federation counts 121,600 Scouts (as of 2021){{Cite web |title=WOSM's Membership Census {{!}} Scout Learning Zone |url=https://learn.scout.org/resource/wosms-membership-census |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=learn.scout.org}} and 59,268 Guides (as of 2010).{{cite web |url=http://www.wagggsworldconference.org/en/grab/2398/1/33rdWorldConfernce-QuotaDoc11Agenda13-ENGLISHFinal.pdf |title=33rd World Conference Document No. 11 |publisher=World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts |access-date=27 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722042841/http://www.wagggsworldconference.org/en/grab/2398/1/33rdWorldConfernce-QuotaDoc11Agenda13-ENGLISHFinal.pdf |archive-date=22 July 2011 }}

Members

The members of the federation are

There are also some German-speaking units in the German-speaking community of Belgium, mostly affiliated to the French speaking associations.

The Scout Motto is Sois Prêt (Be Prepared) or Toujours Prêt (Always Prepared) in French, depending on the organization and Wees Paraat or Wees bereid in Dutch.

=Scouts et Guides Pluralistes de Belgique=

The logo of the Scouts et Guides Pluralistes de Belgique is explained as:{{cite web|url=http://www.sgp.be/ress/logos/explication%20logo.pdf|title=explication logo|publisher=Scouts et Guides Pluralistes de Belgique|access-date=2 September 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716065232/http://www.sgp.be/ress/logos/explication%20logo.pdf|archive-date=16 July 2011}}

  • a youth, action movement
  • The girl and boy are moving
  • The blocks are oblique, not symmetrical and placed in an open framework sketched in pencil.
  • boys and girls together
  • The characters form adapted
  • It is outside their scope, one to the other
  • Scouting
  • The word Scout in letters
  • The neckerchief is the Scout subject par excellence{{huh|date=October 2016}}
  • specificity Pluralistic
  • The word "pluralism"! (This specificity is underscored by the assertive green label below)
  • The four different colours

See also

References

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External links

  • {{Official website}} {{in lang|fr|nl}}

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{{WAGGGS|europe}}

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Category:World Organization of the Scout Movement member organizations

Category:World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts member organizations

Category:Scouting and Guiding in Belgium

Category:Organizations established in 1979

Category:1979 establishments in Belgium

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