INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD THROUGH SCOUTING

WHAT WE OUGHTA THINK OF WORLD , OTHER NATION ; WE GOT OUR PROBLEMS , OUR FAMILY . WHEN WE JOINED SCOUTING PROBALLY THROUGH OUR MID TEEN , THERE WAS A ENVIRONMENT TO LOOK UPON AS WE GROW . WE LEARNED TO MAKE FRIENDS , WE WENT TO CAMPS , WORKED TOGETHER FOR EACH OTHER AND OTHERS , IF THIS WAS NOT ENOUGH , WE RESPECTED EACH OTHER , OUR ORDIAL WAS SAME , BEFORE WE EVEN NOTICED , WE WERE FOLLOWING FOURTH POINT OF SCOUT LAW EMBEDDED IN THE HEART , MIND AND SOUL – “ A SCOUT IS FRIEND TO ALL BROTHER TO EVERY OTHER SCOUT “ IN THOSE SWEET WORDS WE CALL “ BROTHERHOOD “



THERE IT WAS BROTHERHOOD , WHAT SCOUTING TOUGHT US WAS THAT “ IF A SCOUT MEETS ANOTHER SCOUT , EVEN THOUGH STRANGER TO HIM , HE MUST SPEAK TO HIM AND HELP HIM IN THE WAY HE CAN , NO MATTER HE IS A POOR RICH ON OF ANY SOCIO STATUS “ .



THIS PUTS US IN THE ZONE OF NOT BEING A “SNOB” - HOW OFTEN A SCOUT LOOKS DOWN UPON OTHER PERSON BECAUSE HE IS NOT OF OUR SOCIAL STATUS . HOW OFTEN A SCOUT FINDS SOME ONE AND MAKES THE BEST OUT OF HIM . LIKE A KIM BOY SCOUT WHO WAS CALLED UPON BY THE RED INDIANS AS THE “ FRIEND OF ALL THE WORLD “ BY INTERPRETING THE CHOICE OF OUR QUALITIES AND VIEW TOWARDS OTHER PEOPLE , WE CAN EARN THE STATUS GIVEN TO OUR LITTLE KIM .



SO WE HAD FOUND OUR SELF IN THE STATE OF BROTHERHOOD WITH OUR FELLOW SCOUTS , WE SERVED COMMUNITY , WITH FUN AND ALL THE HELP BY OUR BROTHERS . WE WENT TREKKING , CLIMED ROCKS , EDUCATED OURSELFS , READ SCOUTING FOR BOYS . NOW I GET A QUESTION ; WHAT IS THIS ALL THIS INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD ? , SCOUTS OF THE WORLD ? , IS’NT BEING A SCOUT OF OUR NSO NOT ENOUGH ? .



EIGHT YEARS BACK WHEN WE WERE INVESTED AS A RECRUITS IN OUR GROUP , I LEARNED SOMETHING ABOUT THE HISTORY OF SCOUT LAW , OUR LEADER ; CHIEF OF THE WORLD - BADEN POWELL , INSTATED TEN POINTS ABOUT THE LAW IN THE PUBLICATION OF SCOUTING FOR BOYS 1908 . IT IS KNOW THAT BADENPOWELL DREW INSPIRATION FROM ‘ERNEST THOMPSON SETON ‘ , WHO FOUND ‘WOOD CRAFT INDIANS IN 1902’ AND WENT ON TO SPREAD THE SCOUTING IN THE NORTHERN AMERICA . IS THAT IT? , NO! . THERE WAS ‘BUSHIDO CODE’ OF THE JAPANESE SAMURAI , THE LAWS OF HONOUR FROM AMERICAL INDIANS , THE CODE OF CHIVALRY OR EUROPEAN KNIGHTS , THE ‘ZULU WARRIORS’ , WHO FOUGHT AGAINST THE BP IN AFRICA .



LETS COME BACK TO THE POINT , WHY INTERNATIONAL BROTHER HOOD ?

WE HAVE SEEN A LOT ABOUT THE COPENHAGEN SUMMIT TILL NOW, FIGHTING FOR A CHANGE ,FIGHTING AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING ALL OVER WORLD

THERE WAS A BIG CONCERN ABOUT POVERY AND MALNUTRITION OF CHILDREN UNDER FIVE YEARS , NOT ONLY MY COUNTRY ‘INDIA’ , THERE WAS ‘AFRICA’ ‘BANGLA’ , ‘MEXICO’ , AND IT CONTINUES ALL OVER WORLD

AIDS HAVE SPREAD VERY FAST , MORE THAN HUNDRED THOUSAND YOUTH AFFECTED , ALL OVER WORLD

COMMUNAL VOILENCE , WAR , TERRORISM HAS SPEARD HAS CURRUPTED MINDS HAS SCARED INNOCENCENT ALL OVER THE WORLD



WE SEE THE OCCURANCE OF THE WORD “ ALL OVER THE WORLD” AGAIN AND AGAIN . JUST MY COMMUNITY , MY COUNTRY MY ‘BROTHERS’ ARE NOT ALL OVER THE WORLD .

AS SCOUTS WE HAVE ONE LAW , ONE PROMISE , ONE WORLD . AS I MENTIONED, THE LAW WE CONCIDER ARE NOT ONE NATIONS , PERSONS OR ORGANISATIONS IDEALOGY . THEY ALL SAY THE SAME FOURTH POINT . WE AS A SCOUTS ENJOY THE PRIVILAGE OF INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD .



AS A PART OF LARGEST UNIFORMED ORGANISATION , BE IT COPENHAGGEN OR EARTH HOUR . SCOUTS ARE THERE . OUR BROTHERS ARE THERE . WHERE A NO DIPLOMAT CAN REACH , A ARMY CAN SHOW UP . SCOUTS ARE CHANGING LIFE AND CREATING BETTER WORLD . WORLD JAMBOREE’S , JAMBOREE OR AIR AND INTERNET , WORLD SUMMITS , INTERNATIONAL RALLIES , ARE THE PLATFORMS OF VARIOUS GROUPS TO MEET . TO CREATE A NEW LEVEL OF INTERGRATION AND UNDERSTANDING UNDER INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD



TO THE WORLD – “FROM THE WORLD YOU CAME AT THE CALL OF MY HORNS TO THIS GREAT GATHERING OF THIS GREAT GATHERING OF FELLOWSHIP AND BROTHERHOOD”

- LORD ROBERT STEPHENSON SMITH BADEN POWELL