Guiding and Scouting in Belgium
Gidsen- en Scoutsbeweging in België or Guidisme et Scoutisme en Belgique is the national Guiding and Scouting federation in Belgium. Scouting in Belgium started in 1911, and Guiding followed in 1915. The Belgian Scouts were among the charter members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922, and the Guides were one of the founding members of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1928. The federation counts 96,837 Scouts and 59,268 Guides.Members
The members of the federation are
There are also some German-speaking units in the German-speaking community of Belgium, mostly affiliated to the French speaking associations.
The Scout Motto is Sois Prêt or Toujours Prêt in French, depending on the organization and Wees Paraat or Wees bereid in Dutch.Scouts et Guides Pluralistes de Belgique
The logo of the Scouts et Guides Pluralistes de Belgique is explained as:
- a youth, action movement
- * The girl and boy are moving
- * The blocks are oblique, not symmetrical and placed in an open framework sketched in pencil.
- boys and girls together
- * The characters form adapted
- * It is outside their scope, one to the other
- Scouting
- * The word Scout in letters
- * The neckerchief is the Scout subject par excellence
- specificity Pluralistic
- * The word "pluralism"!
- * The four different colours
