Maltese scouts in Australia for Jamboree

Abstract

In 1907, Sir Robert Baden Powell set up a camp with twelve young boys in Brownsea Island in England. That camp started the Boy Scout Movement. The aim of the Movement was to attain worldwide peace in that Boy Scouts from different nations could call each other brothers regardless of colour, class or creed. To help achieve this Baden Powell organized international camps at which countries from all over the world sent their Scouts to live together on one campsite. Thus the Jamborees were born, the name coming from the African expression gathering of the tribes. In 1987 the 16th World Jamboree was due to be held in Australia, this mainly due to the fact that it was that country's bicentennial year of its foundation as a nation. Once the Australians' offer was accepted by the World Scout Committee, preparations for this great event began. [excerpt]