In 1896, Baden-Powell was assigned to the Matabeleland region in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) as Chief of Staff to Gen. Later, as a military officer, Baden-Powell was stationed in British India in the 1880s where he took an interest in military scouting and in 1884 he published Reconnaissance and Scouting. At Charterhouse, one of England's most famous public schools, Baden-Powell had an interest in the outdoors. The trigger for the Scouting movement was the 1908 publication of Scouting for Boys written by Robert Baden-Powell. Stone on Brownsea Island commemorating the first Scout camp International Union of Guides and Scouts of Europe.World Organization of Independent Scouts.World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), primarily for girls-only organizations but also accepting co-educational organizations.World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), for boys-only and co-educational organizations.International umbrella organizations include: In 2007, Scouting and Guiding together had over 38 million members in 216 countries. In 1910, Baden-Powell formed the Girl Guides, for girls in the United Kingdom which spread internationally as Girl Guides and includes age programs of ( Brownie Guide, Girl Guide and Girl Scout, Ranger Guide). Later, programs for younger children, such as Wolf Cubs (1916), now Cubs, and for older adolescents, such as Rovers (1918), were adopted by some Scout organizations. The Scout Movement of both Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts was well established in the first decade of the twentieth century. Baden-Powell wrote Scouting for Boys (London, 1908), partly based on his earlier military books. In 1907, Robert Baden-Powell, a Lieutenant General in the British Army, held a Scouting encampment on Brownsea Island in England. Distinctive uniform insignia include the fleur-de-lis and the trefoil, as well as merit badges and other patches. Another widely recognized movement characteristic is the Scout uniform, by intent hiding all differences of social standing in a country and making for equality, with neckerchief and campaign hat or comparable head wear.
Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking, and sports. Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell For other uses, see Scout (disambiguation). This article is about the Scout Movement.
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