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The Egyptian Federation for Scouts and Girl Guides
The Egyptian Federation for Scouts and Girl Guides (EFSGG,
Arabic: الاتحاد العام
للكشافة والمرشدات) is
the national
Scouting and
Guiding federation of
Egypt. Scouting was founded in 1914 and was among the
charter members of the
World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922, while
nominally independent from
Britain. Guiding started in 1913 and became a member of the
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1931.
The EFSGG serves 74,598 Scouts (as of 1989) and 92,000 Guides
(as of 2003).
The first Scout group was founded in
Alexandria, brought to Egypt by the
British during their occupation.
Most Scout troops are associated with schools, clubs, mosques
and churches. Rover units are associated with high schools and
universities. Egyptian Scouts play an important role in
community service. They are involved in projects of desert
reclamation, work camps,
blood drives, medical care and other projects.
Scouts are offered vocational training and the skills needed to
help develop communities. Scouts learn the importance of
planting trees where firewood is scarce, building energy
efficient stoves and making good use of their skills of
carpentry, electricity and plumbing.
Mohamed Ali Hafez served on the
World Scout Committee of the
World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1957 until
1963 and again from 1965 to 1971.
In 1965, Mr. Hafez was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only
distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement,
awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to
world Scouting. Other recipients include Mr.
Aziz Osman Bakir in 1971, Mr.
John M. Lioufis in 1978, and Mr.
Gamal Khashaba in 1982.
The EFSGG has four central associations:
Each of these central association has a correspondent regional
association in the 26
governorates of Egypt; a coordination committee in each
governorate organizes the activities and the cooperation between
the associations.
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The Girl Guides association has three age divisions:
The Cairo International Scout Center is a lavish six-floor
building next to
Cairo International Stadium that welcomes all Scouts,
nonScout organizations and individual guests. The home of the
Arab Scout Region, it hosts both conference areas and hostel
quarters. In addition, Egypt has a national Scout center,
El-Seleen.
The
Scout Motto is Kun Musta'idan or
كن مستعدين, translating as
Be Prepared in Arabic. The noun for a single Scout is
Kashaf or كشاف in
Arabic.
The Scout emblem incorporates elements of each of the four
central associations, as well as a
lotus
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خُذْ نسخة
مواقع مهمة
أهابت الأمانة العامة لرابطة العالم الإسلامي بالمجتمع الدولي
ومؤسساته وفي مقدمتها هيئة الأمم المتحدة للعمل على إنقاذ سكان
قطاع غزة في فلسطين من الكارثة التي حلت بهم بسبب الحصار
الإسرائيلي المفروض على القطاع واستمرار العدوان على أهله