Hungarian Scouting today Hungarian Scouting Abroad As 25% of the Hungarians live outside of Hungary, there are Hungarian scout groups in different countries of the world. While in Hungary today about 9 thousand of Hungarian scouts exist, there are further 7 thousand Hungarian scouts in other countries in minority scout groups. These scout groups are members of one association per country in Central Europe, and other groups around the world join a separate association.
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The history of minority scouting starts at the beginning of Hungarian Scouting, before the World Wars.
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1920 After the peace treaty ending the I. World War, parts of the Hungarian scouting continued behind the borders of other countries as minority scouting. 1945 The communism following the II. World War forbid scouting in all of these countries, the movement could just restart after the brake down of this system, and so minority scouting could be restarted. After 1945 on the other hand the Hungarian scout work started already in refugee camps and in exile and while scouting being forbidden in Hungary, the work went on and goes on until today.
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Based on the aim of keeping contact to the Hungarian scout associations, in 1991 the Forum of the Hungarian Scout Associations was formed. The member organizations of the Forum organize programs together and they participate on each other’s bigger events. The Hungarian Scout Association in Hungary- which is open for both sexes- is member of the WOSM. The other single sex, smaller Association of the Hungarian Girl Guides is member of the WAGGGS. The Hungarian minority scout associations are not members of the world organizations. The minority associations work in the neighbouring Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania and Serbia. One Hungarian scout group exists in Croatia. Among Hungarians around the world the Overseas Hungarian Scout Association operates in 11 countries on 4 continents, as organizer of youth education for 50 Hungarian communities.
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