Asociación Nacional de Scouts de Panamá
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Panama has 1,854 Scouts served by the Asociación Nacional de Scouts de Panamá, which was founded in 1924 and accepted into the World Organization of the Scout Movement that same year. Recognition was withdrawn in 1936. Panama regained its WOSM membership in 1950. Panamanian Scouting is coeducational, serving both boys and girls.
Scouts are involved in community service projects in an effort to make the world in which its members live a better one. Service to the community includes disaster relief, conservation of natural resources and collecting toys and games for poor children.
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[edit] Program
- Cubs-ages 6 to 10
- Scouts-ages 11 to 14
- Walkers-15 to 17
- Rovers -18 to 21
The highest rank is the Scout Urracá, after an indigenous Panamanian cacique who fought against the Spanish conquistadors.
[edit] Scout Motto
Siempre listo, Always ready.
[edit] Scout Oath
Por mi honor prometo hacer todo cuanto de mi dependa para cumplir mis deberes para con Dios y la patria hacer una buena accion a alguien cada dia y cumplir fiel mente la Ley Scout.
[edit] Scout Law
- El Scout cifra su honor en ser digno de comfianza
- El Scout es leal para con Dios su patria, sus padres, jefes y subordinados
- El Scout es util y ayuda a los demas sin pensar en recompensa
- El Scout es amigo de todos y hermano de todo Scout sin distincion de credo, raza, nacionalidad o clase social
- El Scout es cortes y caballeroso
- El Scout ve enla naturaleza la obra de Dios, proteje a los animales y plantas
- El Scout obedece sin replicar y hace las cosas en orden y completas
- El Scout sonrie y canta en sus difcultades
- El Scout es economico, trabajador y cuidadoso del bien ajeno
- El Scout es limpio y sano, puro en sus pensamientos, palbras y acciones
[edit] International Scouting units in Panama
In addition, there are American Boy Scouts in Panama, originally linked to the Canal Zone Council of the Boy Scouts of America, now part of Direct Service, which supports units around the world, through at least 1987. Also, in the 1950s and 1960s were the 900 member Boy Scouts of the Panama Canal Zone, directly registered to the World Bureau.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Wilson, John S. (1959). "The International Bureau Goes on the Road", Scouting Round the World, first edition (in English), London: Blandford Press, 134. “"At Balboa we met up with Gunnar Berg and Ray Wyland of the B.S.A., also on their way to Bogota, and had a conference about the question of coloured Scouts in the Canal Zone, who claim British and not Panamanian nationality. It was agreed that they should be taken under the wing of the Canal Zone Council of the Boy Scouts of America, but ten years later they were transferred directly under the International Bureau as the International Boy Scouts of the Canal Zone."”
[edit] See also
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