Guidisme et Scoutisme en Belgique

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historic membership badge of one of the several Belgian Scout Associations

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History

Boy Scouts of Belgium (BSB) was founded on December 23, 1910. The first all-Belgian troop was founded in Brussels. They used the British badges, rules and uniforms. This association was open to all boys.

As early as 1911 the B.S.B. founded a Girl Guide or Girl Scout troop but World War I and the German occupation hampered their development, so the founding of G.G.B. was not until December 17, 1919. This also sed British badges, rules and uniforms.

Belgium was again occupied by the Germans during World War II, between 1940-1944, and Scouting was banned by the Nazis. Scouting resumed after the liberation in spring 1944. B.S.B. and G.G.B. merged into one organization in July 1945. Each section remained separate, and there were no mixed groups until well into the 1980s.

The Sea Scouts of Belgium (SSB), was founded in April 1914. SSB is an open movement concentrating on Sea Scouting only and founded along the North Sea Coast in the Flemish speaking part of Belgium only. SSB did not have any connection with BSB. They also used British badges, uniforms and rules.

Members

• FOS Open Scouting (FOS; interreligious, coeducational, Flemish)
• Guides Catholique de Belgique (GCB, Catholic Guides of Belgium; Roman Catholic, in most sections girls-only, mainly in the Walloon region and Brussels; only WAGGGS-member)
• Les Scouts - Fédération Catholique des Scouts Baden-Powell de Belgique (FSC, Catholic Baden-Powell-Scout Federation of Belgium; Roman Catholic, partly coeducational, Walloon region and Brussels; only WOSM-member)
• Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen (SGV, Scouts and Guides of Flanders; until 2006: Vlaams Verbond van Katholieke Scouts en Meisjesgidsen (Flemish Catholic Scout and Guide Association), VVKSM; Christian, coeducational, Flemish)
• Scouts et Guides Pluralistes de Belgique (SGP, Belgian Pluralist Scouts and Guides; interreligious, coeducational, Walloon)

Emblems

Image:Wosm-belgium-fos.gif|FOS Open Scouting
Image:Wosm-belgium-ls.gif|Les Scouts - Fédération Catholique des Scouts Baden-Powell de Belgique
Image:Wagggs-belgium-gcb.gif|Guides Catholique de Belgique
Image:Wosm-belgium-vvksm-guides.gif|Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen - Guides
Image:Wosm-belgium-vvksm-scouts.gif|Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen - Scouts
Image:Wosm-belgium-sgp.gif|Scouts et Guides Pluralistes de Belgique

Other Scouting associations in Belgium

Other Scouting associations active in Belgium include:

• Eclaireurs Unionistes de Belgique (YMCA-Scouts)
• Europe & Scoutisme, an offsplit of the Guides et Scouts d'Europe - Belgique
• Guides et Scouts d'Europe - Belgique/Europascouts en Gidsen - België, which is part of the Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d’Europe
• Hanoar Hatzioni, an international Zionist youth organization

International Scouting units in Belgium

Thanks to the many international institutions in Belgium there are some international Scout organizations active in the country. Among them are the British Scouts Western Europe (part of The Scout Association UK), the Transatlantic Council of the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the USA.

See also

• Hergé

External links

• [Official Homepage of the federation] , flemish
• [History of Belgian Scouting]
• [British Scouts Western Europe]

Members of the European Scout Region

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