Area Scouts bound for Sweden Jamboree

Post date: Mar 07, 2012 2:41:59 AM

Jul 20, 2011

http://www.insidehalton.com/news/article/1045952--area-scouts-bound-for-sweden-jamboree

A group of 17 Venture Scouts and four leaders from Burlington and Waterdown will be participating in the 22nd World Scout Jamboree in Sweden on July 27.

They will be joining 38,000 Scouts from around the world at Rinkaby, Sweden.

Scouting representatives from 150 countries around the world will be on hand to celebrate “Simply Scouting.” The local contingent is made up of Scouting members from 15th Burlington, 31st Burlington, 3rd Aldershot, and 3rd Waterdown.

They will join 401 participants from across Canada as part of the Canadian Contingent to the event.

The group departs on Friday. The Canadian Contingent will be stopping in Frankfurt, Germany first for a few days of sightseeing, before heading to the Jamboree site later in the week.

Every four years, tens of thousands of Scouts from every corner of the world gather for two weeks in a tented city for the adventure of a lifetime.

This is the Burlington area’s largest contingent to the international event in decades.

The trip is costing about $4,500 per person and the group has been organizing several fundraisers to help with the expense over the past year, including bottle drives, maple syrup sales, fundraising nights at Chapters, Boston Pizza and Kelsey’s, and working on the Eco team at the Sound of Music Festival.

Scouts Canada, Canada’s leading youth organization, offers fun and exciting outdoor adventure for boys, girls and youth ages 5–26 in communities across Canada. Youth in Scouts have fun adventures discovering new things and experiences they wouldn’t discover elsewhere.