MoP Bulletin Issue No. 13

Messengers of Peace

ASIA-PACIFIC

QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER

Messengers of Peace quarterly newsletter is an initiative of the Asia-Pacific Support Centre of the World Scout Bureau highlighting the projects of National Scout Organizations under MoP Initiative.

Issue No. 13 JANUARY - MARCH 2016

MoP PROJECTS File photo: Scouts Australia

AUSTRALIA

Eliminating bullying & harassment – it’s not a part of Scouting!

Scouts Australia successfully completed the MoP project “Eliminating bullying & harassment – it’s not a part of Scouting!”. The goal of this initiative is to minimize the level of bullying and harassment by developing and implementing ongoing education programs, training and resources for both youth members and leaders, creating positive relationships.

Bullying, in different forms, has become prevalent within the Australian community, mostly happening in schools.

In Australian schools, approximately Year 4 to Year 9 Australian students (27%) are being bullied every few weeks or more often. Frequent school bullying was highturn to page 2

“Eliminating bullying...continuation from page 1

est among Year 5 (32%) and Year 8 (29%) students.

Hurtful teasing was the most prevalent of all bullying behaviors experienced by students, followed by having hurtful lies told about them.

The percentages of the students who had been both bullied and who bullied others in covert ways increased from 21% in Year 4 to almost half (47%) in Year 9. Therefore it is important for Scouts Australia

to

address

this

significant

issue

nationally

with

a

bold and assertive plan to ensure that the impact of bullying is minimized.

INDONESIA

Disaster preparedness and community service

Natural

disasters

have

significant

impact on agriculture, forestry, fishery

and

many

other

areas.

To

alleviate their adverse effects, the Indonesian government established disaster response at national, provincial and district levels.

With the involvement of communities, government efforts are reinforced in terms of time, personnel and logistic support.

This is where Gerakan Pramuka involves its large Scout population to support both the government and communities in disaster and emergency preparedness.

With a membership of over 21 million Scouts, Gerakan Pramuka offers Cub Scouts with camping and tracking skills. Those skills are strengthened in the Venture and Rover sections where Scouts learn advance skills in disaster response and mitigation.

For years, Gerakan Pramuka has its own disaster response team which clearly needs strengthening

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and expansion at community level.

To reinforce this team, a project called “Disaster Preparedness and Community Services” under the Messengers of Peace initiative with these objectives: •

To improve assessment skills (surveillance, mapping) and IT practices of Gerakan Pramuka Peduli Response Team

•

To equip the group with proper safety equipment and communication gadgets

•

To strengthen the capacity of young people and leaders in

Gerakan Pramuka to create community awareness on disaster preparedness Based on the above objectives, Gerakan Pramuka recently implemented this project in the provinces of Sulawesi, Sumatra and Java. Scouts were trained on disaster risk management training in the form of Participatory Learning and Action (PLA). For the purpose of sustainability and reaching out, one activity of this project is “Multiplication Action” in which trained Scouts will train the other local Scouts to transfer the same skills to them.

PHILIPPINES

New Scout building rises in Tacloban City

Tropical storm Haiyan (locally named Yolanda) struck central Philippines in November 2013 including the island provinces of Cebu, Samar, Leyte and Tacloban City. The typhoon was accompanied by a storm surge that killed thousands of people, and displaced many thousands of residents including Scout families. The Scout

office

building,

located

in

Tacloban

City,

was

completely destroyed.

Boy Scouts of the Philippines took the initiative to implement a special project of MOP named “Construction of Scout

Office

Building”

with

these

objectives:

Centre and Emergency Service Operations Centre during emergencies and disasters.

The King of Sweden, HM Carl XVI Gustaf, Honorary Chairman of the World Scout Foundation, visited Tacloban twice and inspired the construction of a new Scout building.

Two years after the disaster, with the close supervision of

World

Scout

Bureau

Asia-­Pacific

Support

Centre,

a

thanksgiving mass was offered to bless the new twostorey Scout building on 22 February 2016.

•

To

construct

the

Scout

office

building

of

the

Boy

Scouts of the Philippines, Leyte Council for the purpose of re-establishing Scout operations at the council level.

The building is complete with facilities such as computers, office

furniture,

and

various

electronic

equipment.

Today,

there are over 50,000 Scout members in Leyte council, a 100% increase before the storm surge.

•

To

utilize

the

new

office

building

as

a

Disaster

Preparedness and Disaster Risk Reduction Training

Across the Scout House is the Disaster Management Training building for the Visayas Region.

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INDIA

MoP spreads across India The Bharat Scouts & Guides (BS&G) India is one of the leading organizations carrying out the Messengers of Peace (MoP) Initiative in the AsiaPacific

Region.

India’s

vastness

calls

for several orientation programs to spread MoP as wide as possible.

At the second phase of MoP, BS&G India organized four Local Coordinators Gatherings in the four states of India.

The

first

was

held

on

2-­6

December 2015 at Solan-Himachal Pradesh where 34 leaders underwent the five-­day

Orientation

Program.

It

was

followed by Lucknow-Uttar Pradesh Gathering from 11-15 December 2015, attended by 85 leaders, then the Bhubneswar-Oddissa Gathering from 26-30 December with 55 leaders, and lastly in Ramtek-Maharashtra from 2-6 January 2016 with 50 leaders.

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During the orientation program, leaders had

hands-­on

exercises,

field

visits

and

interaction with young people, where over 2,000 young people participated in the MoP modules.

Immediately after the orientation, leaders were briefed on the use of social media. They learned that through WOSM website scout.org, MoP service hours recorded has increase of over 1.2 million hours, service projects went up to over 600 and over 2,000 users registered in just two months.

Not only the equipping of the local leaders are being done, but also Scouting in this country is growing, and in some areas, Scout leaders are reignited and motivated to do MoP activities.

All four gatherings were covered by multimedia giving wide publicity to the

events, supported by State Chief Commissioners who were present in the events: Mr. Dinkar Burathoki in Himachal, Mr. Awadh Naresh Sharma in Uttar Pradesh, Mr. K. P. Mishra in Oddissa and Mr. B.I. Nagarale in Maharashtra state.

BS&G MoP Coordinator Mr. Krishnaswamy, with Mr. Madhu Awala worked hard for the preparations for all the gatherings and actively conducted the gatherings with members of the national and local teams.

The gatherings were directed by S. Prassanna Shrivastava from World Scout

Bureau,

Asia-­Pacific

Support

Centre, in consultation with the AsiaPacific

Support

Centre

Regional

Director

J. Rizal C. Pangilinan and Regional Scout Committee member and Chief National Commissioner B. I. Nagarale, with Director K. Sukumara as advisor.

Solan-Himachal Pradesh

Bhubneswar-Oddissa Gathering

Lucknow-Uttar Pradesh

Ramtek-Maharashtra

NEW ZEALAND

Promoting and developing Scouts in multicultural communities Scouts New Zealand is implementing the MOP project ‘‘Promoting and Developing Scouts in Multicultural Communities’’ since 2012 which was recently extended to complete the remaining activities and reach out to a maximum number of beneficiaries.

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The project addresses the issue of lack of organized activities for youth that can provide leadership and teamwork training, coupled with developing a sense of pride in their communities and a determination to make a better life for themselves and their families.

It targets the establishment of viable and self-sustaining Scout

groups in culturally diverse communities.

Value based activity groups are being organized to engage and involve the youth with the support of parents and the wider community with focus on developing leadership skills and sense of contribution to the society.

PAKISTAN

MoP Team Pakistan Gathering Pakistan Boy Scouts Association (PBSA)plans to hold another MOP Team Pakistan Gathering before the end of this year to train more Scout leaders on Messengers of Peace Initiative especially those who were unable to attend the last gathering in 2014.

This will further strengthen the capacity of PBSA by developing a strong team for the promotion of the MOP initiative in the country. In 2014, PBSA was the 5th NSO to hold such event to build capacity of grassroot level leaders who can promote MoP initiative in their respective areas.

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Asia-­Pacific

Region

MoP

Statistics Translated

in

numbers,

MoP

in

Asia-­Pacific

is

making

great

progress.

This

was

how

the

top

ten

NSOs

performed from January to March 2016 in terms of MoP Service Hours, Service Project, and scout.org users

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Global Network (MoP statistics, March 2016) The Global network shows the service of 40 million Scouts around the world, joining efforts with local communities as activie citizens.

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MOP Regional Team REGIONAL DECISION COMMITTEE Peter Blatch Chay Hong Leng J. Rizal C. Pangilinan Regional

Office

Coordinator

S Prassanna Shrivastava

MoP NATIONAL COORDINATORS Australia: Johnathan Raymond Morey

Malaysia: Amir Hamzah bin Aman

Bangladesh: Mohammad Atiquzzaman

Maldives: Ibrahim Rasheed

Bhutan: Nawang Gyaltshen Brunei Darussalam: Liyana Binti Haji Salleh

REGIONAL SUPPORT TEAM J. Rizal C. Pangilinan Regional

Director S Prassanna Shrivastava Director,

Development

Support

&

Finance Luz Taray Director,

Communications

and

Strategy Uzair Kamal Development

Support

Manager Nancy P. Ladores Assistant,

Development

Support

Mongolia: Uyanga Erdenebulgan Nepal: Ram Prasad Bhattarai Pakistan: Zahid Mahboob

Cambodia: Chek LIM Scouts of China: Sherman Sheng, Hsiao-Ming Fiji: Kailash Vimal Pillay Hong Kong: Peggy TAM Siu-lan

PNG: Vagi Clergy Waru Vagi Philippines: Carmelo B. Francia Singapore: Tan Sijie Sri Lanka: Jerome De Silva

India: Krishnaswamy R. Indonesia: Venny Indri Christiyanti

Thailand: H.E. Dr. Poldej Worachat Macau: Tang Chon Meng, Jacky

Japan: Reiko Suzuki Korea: Kim Su Yeon

Scout Polynesia: Raiarii Benjamin Tama

Kiribati: Mataiti Bwebwe Log-in

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