WOSM-Interamerican Region
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| InterAmerican Scout Region | |
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| Owner | World Organization of the Scout Movement |
| Headquarters | Santiago, Chile |
| Website | http://www.wsb-osi.cl/ |
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The Interamerican Region is the divisional office of the World Scout Bureau of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, headquartered in Santiago, Chile. The InterAmerican Region services Scouting in the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America. Until the 1960s, the Region serviced only Mexico, Central and South America, with Canada and the United States serviced through the then-named "Boy Scouts International Bureau" in Ottawa, Canada. Even today, the Interamerican Region exists more for the benefit of countries south of the Rio Grande, as evidenced by the website being only in Spanish; consequently, the United States and Canada do not participate as vigorously in regional activities as do other national organizations around the world.
The headquarters of the InterAmerican Region has moved progressively southward since its inception, starting in Havana, Cuba, from 1946 to 1960; moving briefly to Kingston, Jamaica, in 1960; immediately relocating to Mexico City, Mexico, between 1960 and 1968; then to San José, Costa Rica, between 1968 and 1992; most recently relocating to Santiago, Chile, from 1992 to the present.
The Scouts of the nations in the Caribbean basin host their own subregional jamborees.
The InterAmerican Region contains one of the six countries with no Scouting organization, Cuba, due to political constraints within the country.
This region is the counterpart of the Western Hemisphere Region of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS).
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[edit] Regional Scouts administered directly by WOSM
The needs of Scout youth in the Region in unusual situations has created some interesting permutations, answerable directly to the World Scout Bureau. For years there was an active Boy Scouts of the United Nations with several troops at Parkway Village in New York City, with but 14 members in 1959. Also directly registered to the World Bureau were the 900 member Boy Scouts of the Panama Canal Zone.[1]
[edit] Caribbean Scout Jamborees
Boy Scouts have been gathering for jamboree encampments in the Caribbean at periodic intervals since 1952, when the First Caribbean Jamboree was held at Briggs Park, in Kingston, Jamaica. Past Jamborees include:
- 1st Caribbean Jamboree-Kingston, Jamaica-1952
- 2nd Caribbean Jamboree-Trinidad and Tobago 1961
- 3rd Caribbean Jamboree-Guyana 1969
- 4th Caribbean Jamboree-Combermere School, Barbados 1972
- 5th Caribbean Jamboree-Suriname 1974
- 6th Caribbean Jamboree-Jamaica 27 September 1977
- 7th Caribbean Jamboree-Trinidad and Tobago 1980
- 8th Caribbean Jamboree-Suriname (cancelled) 1984
- 9th Caribbean Jamboree-Barbados 1987
- 10th Caribbean Jamboree-Dominica 1994
- 11th Caribbean Jamboree-Trinidad and Tobago 1997
- 12th Caribbean Jamboree-Saint Lucia 2000
- 13th Caribbean Jamboree-Guyana (cancelled) 2003
- 13th Caribbean Jamboree-Jamaica 2006
[edit] Pan-American Region Scout Jamborees
The Region has run or sponsored region-wide jamborees in its member countries. Past Jamborees include:
- 1st Pan-American Jamboree-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1965
- 2nd Pan-American Jamboree-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1966
- 3rd Pan-American Jamboree-Bogota, Colombia 1974
- 4th Pan-American Jamboree-Brazil 1981
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- 12th Pan-American Jamboree-San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina 2004
- 13th Pan-American Jamboree-Mexico 2009
[edit] Pan-American Moot
- 1st Pan-American Moot-Cochabamba, Bolivia 27 December, 2008 to 4 January, 2009
[edit] See also
[edit] External links and references
- Facts on World Scouting, Boy Scouts International Bureau, Ottawa, Canada, 1961
- Patches and memorabilia of the Caribbean Scout Jamborees
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[edit] References
- ^ Wilson, John S. (1959). "The International Bureau Goes on the Road", Scouting Round the World, first edition (in English), London: Blandford Press, 134. “"At Balboa we met up with Gunnar Berg and Ray Wyland of the B.S.A., also on their way to Bogota, and had a conference about the question of coloured Scouts in the Canal Zone, who claim British and not Panamanian nationality. It was agreed that they should be taken under the wing of the Canal Zone Council of the Boy Scouts of America, but ten years later they were transferred directly under the International Bureau as the International Boy Scouts of the Canal Zone."”
