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Scouting Nederland is the national Scouting organisation of The Netherlands with approximately 78,000 youth members and 35,000 adult members (leaders and non-leaders), 11% of them are Sea Scouts (as of 2005). Scouting Nederland is co-educational and open for everyone irrespective of belief, race, skin colour, handicap, political context or sexual preference. Dutch boy scouting started in the summer of 1910 when the first Scout troops were formed, and for girls about a year later. The Dutch scout organizations were among the founding members of the WAGGGS in 1919 and the WOSM in 1922. During World War II all Scouting movements were prohibited, although many continued their activities secretly. Scouting Nederland organized the World Scout Jamboree twice, in 1937 the 5th, the last to be attended by Baden-Powell himself, and in 1995 the 18th. The official patron of Scouting Nederland is Princess Máxima, the wife of the Dutch heir to the throne.