Federazione Italiana dello Scautismo

The Federazione Italiana dello Scautismo (FIS, "Italian Scout Federation") is the national Scouting and Guiding federation of Italy. Scouting and Guiding in Italy started in 1910, the Boy Scouts were among the charter members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922, the Girl Guides joined the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1948. The federation serves 102,619 Scouts (as of 2008)cite web |title=Triennial Report 2005-2008 |url=http://scout.org/en/content/download/11615/94838/file/Triennial_Report_EN.pdf |publisher=World Organization of the Scout Movement |accessdate=2008-07-13] and 83,601 Guides (as of 2003).

History

Members

The members of the federation are
* Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani (AGESCI, "Italian Catholic Guide and Scout Association", coed)
* Corpo Nazionale Giovani Esploratori ed Esploratrici Italiani (CNGEI, "National Boy and Girl Scout Corps", interreligious, coed)

Affiliated to AGESCI are two minority Scouting organizations:
* the Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft is the Catholic Scout association of the German-speaking minority in South Tyrol.
* the Slovenske Zamejske Skavtske Organizacije serves the Slovenians living in the region Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

See also

* Scouting in Italy
* Gualtiero Zanolini

References

External links

* [http://www.scouteguide.it FIS]
* [http://www.agesci.org/ AGESCI]
* [http://www.cngei.it/ CNGEI]
* [http://www.pfadfinder.bz/ Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft]