Scouting in Uzbekistan
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History
As far as is known, Scouting was not introduced to the region during the khanate period of the pre-Soviet era.[citation needed]
On October 5, 2004, the Internet Access and Training Program (IATP) brought together 20 Scouts from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan for a two-hour online discussion of their activities from the IATP access sites in Jizzakh, Tashkent, and Urgench, Uzbekistan, as well as in five cities in Kazakhstan, aimed to bring together representatives of the Scouting movements from these countries to promote friendship and cooperation. Nariman Shayakubov, the leader of the Scouting club at Rabati Malik (named after the ruins on the road from Samarkand to Bukhara, seen in the Uzbek Scout insignia), the Travelers Association in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, shared stories of planting trees, picking up litter in the mountainous Chimgan area north of Tashkent, and hiking. He also told of his organization's international collaboration, hosting a group of German Scouts in Uzbekistan in 2003 and making a 20-day trip to Germany funded by Bund der Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder, the German Scouting organization. The Scouts of Uzbekistan told about the challenges they faced in getting Scouting off the ground in Uzbekistan, including ignorance of Scouting among the general population and resistance they faced in getting their organization registered by government agencies.[citation needed]
Successful Scout candidates were admitted into The Union of Scout-Explorers at an initiation ceremony held on the final Sundays in March 1999 and April 2001 in Samarkand. The partner organization "For a Healthy Generation" sponsored the ceremony, providing certificates for each newly sworn-in Scout.[citation needed]
Scout Camp '99 was a ten-day summer backpacking expedition in the mountainous Chimgan area north of Tashkent. Thirty five children and fifteen adults took part in this excursion, which served to foster parent-child teamwork.[citation needed]
The Rabat Malik Scouts have groups in Samarkand and Nukus, for Scouts between the ages of 14 and 18 only. The White Wolf Scouts are headquartered in Tashkent. There is a further group of Scouts in Samarkand, organized in Samarkand under the Yulduzlar (Stars) Youth Center, with 20 members. the Yulduzlar Scouts work from the book "What is Scouting" in Russian, published by the World Organization of Scout Movement, under the leadership of Scout group director Mastura Sharipova.[citation needed]
In addition, there are USA Girl Scouts Overseas in Tashkent, serviced by way of USAGSO headquarters in New York City.[citation needed]
The Scout Motto is Tayyor Bo'l, Be Prepared in Uzbek.[citation needed]
With the 1991 breakup of the
Scouting in Karakalpakstan
Scouting may exist in the republic of Karakalpakstan, but at this time no information is known.[citation needed]
Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting in Uzbekistan
In addition,
See also
- World Organization of the Scout Movement
- Organization of the Scout Movement of Kazakhstan
- Scouting in Kyrgyzstan
- Scouting in Turkmenistan
References
- ^ "A LETTER FROM UZBEKISTAN from the ACC (International)" (PDF). The Guide Association County of Hertfordshire. herts-Scouts.net. July 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2007.
- Partially distilled from the website of the International Research and Exchanges Board(IREX).
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