February 22nd: Thinking Day

Every year on February 22 we celebrate Founders Day, the birthday of Baden-Powell and his wife Lady Olave.

This year’s motto will be “Our World, Our Future in Equality”, organized by WAGGGS, the activities are related to the equal rights of women at all levels and fields of action.

But Remembrance Day – or Day of Thought, where it is known in other languages ​​- is a time to raise money to spread Scouting / Scouting in poor countries. For the activities you can visit the WTD website

“Although you can’t visit Girl Scouts in France or
Finland, in Austria or Australia, in Italy or Iceland, Canada or Chile,
Ghana or Guatemala, USA or U.A.R., you can contact them there in your
LESS. And in this invisible, spiritual way you can give them yours
raising sympathy and friendship. So we scouts, of all kinds and of all
ages and of all nations, go with the highest and the best to the
spreading true peace and goodwill on earth. ”

(Window on My Heart (1983), Lady Baden-Powell and Mary Drewery, p. 182)