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During the competitions Scouts are tested on their competencies in Scouting Skills, Environmental Conservation Aspects, Creative Expression, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Leadership Skills
Safe from Harm ensures that every person involved in Scouting, especially children and young people, feels safe anywhere and at all times. The KENYA SCOUTS ASSOCIATION successfully completed a Safe from Harm Audit by World Scouting carried out on the 28th and 29th of March 2025 to evaluate existing safeguarding policies, procedures, and practices at the Association.
The success of this Audit led by the National Safe from Harm Coordinator Alice Kihungi and the National Executive Commissioner Moses Danda further illuminates the Association’s global standing as the 2nd largest Scout Association in the world not only in the empowerment of over 4 million #young people and #youth through it’s programmes and initiatives but also in ensuring their Safety in all #scouts events and activities in the country.
“Safe from Harm” is the World Organization of the Scout Movement’s (WOSM) global commitment to ensuring that Scouting is a safe, inclusive, and empowering environment for every child, young person, and adult involved.
7 June 2025 – #scouts joined global communities, civil society, businesses, and governments around the world to mark World Environment Day under the theme #BeatPlasticPollution which called for collective action to tackle plastic pollution.
Under the Plastic Tide Turners Challenge initiative #scouts in Kilifi carried out an Ocean cleaning exercise at Mazingira beach and Park to aid with the reduction of the plastic waste disposed in the Indian Ocean.
By 2040, plastic leakage to the environment is predicted to grow by 50 per cent, and that pollution creeps into our bodies through the food we eat, the water we drink, and even the air that we breathe. At the KENYA SCOUTS ASSOCIATION Scouts have tailored programmes to fight Plastic Pollution with an effort towards the reduction of the number of single-use plastic products used by consumers while reusing and recycling as much as possible, a process known as circularity.
The Tide Turners Plastic Challenge, an initiative by UNEP is one of the largest youth-led environmental movements, mobilizing young people to take action against plastic pollution. Since its inception in Kenya, the programme has expanded globally and has engaged over 980,000 youth in 60+ countries as key drivers of environmental sustainability, particularly in the global campaign to #BeatPlasticPollution.
Leadership. Learning. Lifelong Impact!
From local fields to global stages, we expose our #scouts internationally to connect their talents to the world through their engagement in volunteer programmes in Kanderstag international service centre which help them have lifetime adventures, offer service, and build lifelong friendships while making memories that matter.
The Deputy Chief Commissioner Alice Kihungi representing the KENYA SCOUTS ASSOCIATION at the Associação de Escuteiros de Angola (AEA), in Angola to share insights on Scouting in Schools.
This initiative brought together Scout leaders from across the continent to discuss how Scouting can be effectively integrated into school systems as a tool for holistic education, character building, and youth empowerment.
The World Silver Awards are a recognition of the hard work, passion, and dedication Victor Radido the chief commissioner and Antony Gitonga the International Commissioner have towards serving the #youth and #youngpeople of this nation.
The prestigious Silver World Award is exclusively bestowed upon exceptional International Leaders for their outstanding service and leadership to the youth of the world, courtesy of Scouting America
Since the inception of the Award in 1971, only 3 other Kenyans have received the award and these include Kenya’s first President Jomo Kenyatta in 1973, and Kenya’s second President Daniel Moi. Other notable global leaders to have received the Award include Lady Olave Baden Powell, Haile Selasie and Pope John Paul II.