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Bangladesh Scouts
Address : Bangladesh Scouts
60, Anjuman Mofidul Islam Road
Kakrail, Dhaka
Telephone : 880-2-9337714, 880-2-9333651
Fax : 880-2-9342226
E-mail : scouts@bangla.net
Website : www. bangladeshscouts.org.bd
Contact Name : Mihir Kanti Majumder
1. Organization of Child-to-Child activities :
Scouting is an international voluntary youth movement throughout the world. Bangladesh Scouts started functioning in 1972. Scouts in the process of their progressive development communicate development message and skills to other young people as well as community people through Child-to-Child and Child-to-Community approach. As a young people a scout barns best another young people and vice visa. Recognizing the huge Potentials of scouts to promote health and nutrition to scout in the communities, Bangladesh Scouts has developed scout health Nutrition Club in 2002.
According to the Scout Health and Nutrition Club Regulations, Scouts and non-scout young people organize and implement programmes with the support of Adult Scout Leaders. Health workers of the Government and Non-Government sector provide technical support the scout initiations
2. Beneficiaries of the activities :
Scouts, non-scout young people and eventually the community people are the beneficiaries of scout activities. Scouting develop the potentials of young physically, mentally, socially and spiritually. Scouts communicate message and skills to scouts and other non-scout young people through Child to Child approach. Scouts communicate some promotional message and demonstrate skills to the community people through Child to Child approach. Therefore, one million scout population including scout leaders and other non-scout young people and community people get benefit from scouting directly and indirectly.
Bangladesh Scouts established 390 Scout Health and Nutrition Clubs covering the entire geographical locations (64 districts) of the country. A non government NGO namely LIP ( Local Initiative Programme) extended financial and technical support to establish the clubs. The Government through the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare incorporated the club activities in its regular programme for strengthening the School Health Programme of the Health Department. Government has taken initiatives to develop 600 Scout Health and Nutrition Clubs further.
3. Describing the activities :
Scouts are involved in different activities according to the need and interest of young people as well as community people. It has physical dimension, social dimension, mental dimennion and intellectual dimension. In the physical dimension as well as social dimension, scouts earn knowledge on different health and social issues, improve practice and disseminate the same to others. In Bangladesh the scouts get involved in a number of health and nutrition's related programs as per need of young people and community people.
Scouts are involved along with non-scout young people in Scout Health and Nutrition Club activities to promote better health and nutrition among the young people as well as community people. They disseminate health and nutritional messages and demonstrate skills to improve related knowledge and practice. The young club members mainly disseminate message and work with other young people on sanitation, immunization, nutrition, child health care, community hygiene, HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, safe water, and other components of primary health care.
4. How Children's Participation is Encouraged ?
The scouts and non-scout young people are organized through intersting and stimulated programmes The number of scouts in Bangladesh is one million. They in the process of their progressive development, earn related knowledge and skills on different issues. In scouts Health and Nutrition, the club members earn more knowledge and sills on Primary Health Care (PHC) and on some other endemic preventable diseases. They organize health work-camp as camping is an important process of communication and developing skills in the scouting system. In health work-camps, the scouts and young people visit house-to-house in groups to disseminate message and demonstrate skills.
5. Health In and Out of School:
At present scouts and non-scout young people participate to disseminate message and demonstration skills through Child-to-Child approach among young people and child-to-community approach among community people. Thy develop their knowledge and skills related to Primary Health Care through scout programes. As a member of scout health and Nutrition Club, They work following the regulations of club and disseminate message at school and in the community. One Adult Scout Leader, who is a school teacher heads the club and the community leaders work as the patrons of the club. Community people work with the scouts and non-scout young people in promoting community health and nutrition. The numbers of club as well as club members are growing fast.
6. Monitoring and Evaluation of Child-to-Child Activities:
An evaluation team of Bangladesh Scouts having researchers from other Government Organizations evaluates several projects implemented by scouts through child-to-child approach. UNICEF, Bangladesh evaluated one programme entitled "Promotion of Life Skill Based Education through Scouts" which was implemented with the support of UNICEF. Bangladesh Scouts has developed its own evaluation team having outside experts. The evaluation report related to those projects showed that scout and non-scout young people made significant changes in improving knowledge and practice relating to child health care, sanitation, nutrition and other areas of Primary Health Care.
The regular of programmes of Bangladesh Scouts developed for the young people are being munitored and evaluated regular interevents through experienced scout leaders.
Training Activities:
The scouts and non-scout young people have been trained by the training team of Bangladesh Scouts Health Workers from the Government and NGO extend technical support. The scouts and non-scout club members have been trained on life skills education through the life skills training team compsed of young trainers. Save the children, Australia extended training support to develop the life skills training team.
7. Use of Child-to-Child Materials:
Bangladesh Scouts use communication materials developed be itself. Scout Health and Nutrition Club use communication techniques and materials developed by Bangladesh Scouts. With the support of UNICEF, Bangladesh Scouts has developed " Life Skill Education Training Manual" for providing life skills education. The scouts and non-scout young people also use communication material developed by the Government Health Department. The Nutrition game (Nutrition Ludu) developed by Bangladesh Scouts has created attraction of young people. The Nutrition game carries different message of child health care and nutrition.
Bangladesh Scouts collect Communication materials from the Government Health Department free of charge and distribute it among young people and community people.
Bangladesh Scouts has its website with the following web address:
www. bangladeshscouts.org.bd.
8. Is there any other information you would like to provide:
Scouting is a voluntary out-of-school youth movement working for developing the potentials of young people physically, socially, mentally and spiritually. They work in groups known as patrol system and communicate message and sills to young people through child-to-child approach. In the social dimension of scouting, scout work with the community people through child-to-community approach.
With one million scout population, Bangladesh Scouts is the 5th largest Scout Organization in the World Scout arena.
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