Scouting in Armenia

Scouting in Armenia

The first Armenian Scouting groups were organized in 1910 in orphanages in Van, present day Turkey. and continued until 1922 when Scouting was officially banned and the Young Pioneers became the official state youth organization.

The "'Scout and Guide movement in Armenia is served by
* Hayastani Azgayin Scautakan Sharjum Kazmakerputiun, member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement;
* National Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts of Armenia, member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.

Because of Armenia's longstanding diaspora, there are several extranational Armenian Scout and Scout-like organizations. Other Armenian Scout associations include
*Homenetmen
*Homenmen - connected to the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party
*Armenian Young Men's Society-Hoyetchmen - connected to the Boy Scouts of Jerusalem
*Armenian Young Men's Society-Armenagan - connected to the Boy Scouts of Jerusalem

Emblems

couting in Nagorno-Karabakh

*.

International Scouting units in Armenia

In addition, there are USA Girl Scouts Overseas in Yerevan, serviced by way of USAGSO headquarters in New York.

ee also

*Scouting in displaced persons camps

References

* World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, World Bureau (2002), "Trefoil Round the World". Eleventh Edition 1997. ISBN 0-900827-75-0


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