Day of the Youth Movement

The Day of the Youth Movement is an event of the youth movement organisations in Flanders, Belgium.

Context

In Flanders, 250,000 children are in one of the Youth Movements. Most have weekly activities organised by local groups of their organisations (Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen, Chiro, FOS Open Scouting, klj, KSJ-KSA-VKSJ, JNM,...) This means an estimated 18% of the 5-24 age-group in Flanders.

What?

All youth movement organisations stimulate their members to wear their uniforms to work, school, on the train, or wherever you happen to go. That's the basic concept. In addition breakfast is given to those who present themselves in their uniform, flags raised, some statues are dressed in uniforms, my own city presents a spaghetti to our leaders,...

History

Day of the Youth Movement (or "Dag van de Jeugdbeweging" in Flemish) originated in Flanders (Belgium). The 10th edition (2009) will also take place in Wallonia. During the years, the advertising for the event always paid attention to the different uniforms from the organisations.

References

• Day of the Youth Movement official website
• South-African reporters at the event [1]
• newspapers: [2], [3], [4],
• Announcement from national tv for kids: [5]
• Reportage on Canvas (national Belgian tv):
• News on vtm (largest commercial tv-station):
• The Belgian Youth Movements nl.wikipedia.org