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Once a Scout...

What happens to a young person when they become a Scout?

They learn by doing. They practice making good choices. They step up to lead.

And something else happens, too, something that doesn’t fade when the uniform is folded away.

The lessons of Scouting have a way of showing up decades later: in a smart business decision, preparedness in a moment of crisis, or acts of service that make a community better. 
  
That kind of impact doesn’t happen overnight. It’s created through a long-term experience with Scouting. And it compounds. Across years, across choices, across a lifetime. And by giving to World Scouting, you make this impact possible. 

We've launched Once a Scout… to share stories about the lifelong power of Scouting and give you the opportunity to carry it forward. 

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Stories

Meet the Scouts who are applying what they learned in Scouting in their lives and careers today. We'll be sharing a new story every two weeks, so keep coming back to this page!

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Ticket to Life | Burundi

In Bungere, a rural village in Burundi, East Africa, many young people grow up facing unemployment and few opportunities to build a future. Without skills or economic pathways, confidence and prospects narrow quickly.

Ticket to Life, a global initiative from World Scouting, is writing a new story for

Ticket to Life | Burundi

Skills for life

In Bungere, a rural village in Burundi, East Africa, many young people grow up facing unemployment and few opportunities to build a future. Without skills or economic pathways, confidence and prospects narrow quickly.

Ticket to Life, a global initiative from World Scouting, is writing a new story for young people. Providing them with practical business skills, cooperative structures, and a community that believes in them, Scouting is preparing a generation of changemakers in Burundi.

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The project in Bungere has run two training programmes. Cooperative leaders learn financial management, participatory governance, and how to plan income-generating activities. Young peer educators learn how to communicate, facilitate, and bring other young people into local development initiatives. It’s a self-perpetuating design, with skills passed from one person to the next long after the project ends. 

One of their main vehicles to deliver this change is micro enterprises. Through a vegetable farm and a mushroom cultivation cooperative, young people who had never been in formal employment are learning how to run businesses from every angle. 

So far, the project has reached 185 vulnerable young people. 

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Cilliaque Banyenzako, a Scout who completed the programme and now works alongside its young participants, points to something harder to measure. 

Before Ticket to Life, he says, young people without schooling would come to the training centre and simply sit. "They spent their entire day doing nothing." Ticket to Life changed that: "They got trained to get out of the life of waiting to beg. Now, they got trained to work." 

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Millions more are waiting 

The young people who need Scouting most, those furthest from school, opportunity, and people who believe in them, are often the furthest from Scouting, too. 

World Scouting’s initiatives like Ticket to Life exist to close that gap. And they work: the skills are proven, the model is replicable, and the demand is vast. 

What determines how many young people benefit is the support behind it. 

"I encourage other leaders around the world,” says Kwizera, “to mentor other young people who haven't gone to school, because it makes us feel like we belong in a community." 

Leadership in Scouting takes many forms. For some, it means showing up in Burundi. For others, it means making sure someone can. 

Your support today will help young people like Kwizera develop skills for tomorrow. 

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WSF Chair, Beat Wenger

I strongly believe that Scouting offers the best possible way for young people to develop their skills and personality and with their enthusiasm, ideas and activities, Scouts all over the world make a difference to society. So, if you want to see positive impact there is no better way than to support Scouting“

 

 

Beat Wenger, WSF Chair, and Regal Circle Member

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For more than 45 years, the World Scout Foundation has united entrepreneurs, philanthropists, community leaders and families around a shared commitment to empowering young people through Scouting. The Baden-Powell Fellowship spans every continent, offering a global yet personal community where philanthropy becomes truly transformational.
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Bank Details: 
UBS SA P.O. Box 2600 CH-1211 Geneva 2, 
Switzerland Bank Account Name: World Scout Foundation 
WSF Account Number: 240-771138.60T IBAN: CH77 0024 0240 7711 3860 T 
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