Scouting and Guiding in Slovakia - Slovensk Skauting, Jn Chryzostom Korec, Hungarian Scout Association in Slovakia (Paperback)

Chapters: Slovensk Skauting, Jn Chryzostom Korec, Hungarian Scout Association in Slovakia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Slovensk skauting (Scouting Slovakia), or more properly, Zvz slovenskch skautov (in English Union of Slovak Scouts, in Hungarian Szlovk Cserkszszvetsg), is the primary national Scouting and Guiding organization of Slovakia. With 4,268 Scouts (as of 2010) and about 3,000 Guides (as of 2004), Slovensk Skauting is the largest youth organization in Slovakia and a member of both the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. The first Scout troop in the area that comprises Slovakia, while under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was founded in 1912. Scouting in Slovakia started in connection with Hungarian Scouting as Slovakia was, at the time, economically and socially linked more closely with the Hungarian parts of the Empire. From the start, Scouting in Czechoslovakia was open to boys and girls working in separate units. Groups of Girl Scouts began to form between 1918 and 1922 in various towns. In 1919 the Association of the Scouts and Guides of the Republic of Czechoslovakia was founded, and the association became a founder member of WAGGGS in 1928. Girl Scouting grew and progressed until 1939. As part of the fledgling Czechoslovakia, Slovakia was a Founding Member of WOSM from 1922 to 1948, with an interstice in which Scouting ceased to exist as a result of Nazi German occupation in 1940, when the government banned Scouting. After World War II and the 1944 national uprising, Scouting reemerged and was recognized by the state of Czechoslovakia. During the later period of Soviet dominance, like the neighboring Czech Republic and Hungary, Scouting went underground t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3051813