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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

ලෝක බාලදක්ෂ කරලේන්සු දිනය


අගෝස්තු 01

112 වෙනි වසර සමරන බාලදක්ෂ ව්‍යාපාරය ආරම්භයට තුඩුදුන් අද වැනි දිනෙක එනම් අගෝස්තු 01 දින ඇරඹි ඉංග්‍රිසි ඕඩයේ බ්‍රවුන්සි දූපතේ කඳවුර.

1907 ග්‍රීෂ්ම ඍතුවේ මසුන් දඩයමේ යෙදී සිටි සර් විලියම් ඇලෙක්සැන්ඩර් ස්මිත් හා ලුතිනන් ජෙනරාල් බේඩ්න් පවෙල් අතර වූ සාකච්ඡාවට භාජනය වී තිබුනේ එංගලන්තයේ වූ තරුණ හා ලමුන් අතර ප්‍රචලිතව පැවති පොතක අඩංගු කරුණු සම්බන්ධයෙනි . එංගලන්තයේ තරුණ සේනාංකය- Boys Brigade නිර්මාතෘ ස්කොට් ජාතික සර් විලියම් ඇලෙක්සැන්ඩර් ස්මිත් විසින් 1903 දී සිය සේනාංකයේ වාර්ෂික රැලියට බේඩ්න් පවෙල් හට ආරාධනා කර තිබුනේ සිය සේනාංකයේ 5400ක භට පිරිසකගේ උත්තම ආචාරය ඔහුට පුදනු පිණිසය .ඒවනවිට බේඩ්න් පවෙල් අප්‍රිකාවේ මැෆ්කින් සටන ජයගත් ජාතික වීරවරයෙකුව සිටියේය . සිය පූර්ණ හමුදා උත්සව නිලඇදුමෙන් (Ceremonial dress ) සැරසී ලංඩනයේ ඇල්බට් ශාලාවේ පැවති එම සම්මාන මුරය බේඩ්න් පවෙල් බී.පී. විසින් පිළිගත්තේ තේජාන්විත භාවයෙනි .සර් විලියම්ගේ කාර්‍යයේ විශිෂ්ඨත්වය පිළිබඳව බීපී ඔහුට සුභ පැතීය.

ඉන් වසර 4කට පසුව ඔවුන් දෙදෙනා හමුවී කෙරෙන සාකච්ඡාව නම් 1899 දී බීපී විසින් තම හමුදා සේවයේ අත්දැකීම් අලලා නිළධාරින් හා සෙසු නිලයන් උදෙසා ලියන ලද Aids to Scouting නම් අත්පොතේ එන කරුණු භාවිතාවට ගෙනතිබූ එංගලන්තයේ ලමුන් පිළිබඳවය.

බීපී තම යුතුකමක් ලෙස සළකා තම පොතින් ඉදිරිපත් කල කරුණු හා ක්‍රියාමාර්ග ප්‍රමානවත් තරම් ලෙස ශ්‍රේණිගතව හා සැලසුම් සහගතව ඉදිරිපත් කරතිබූ අතර එය ඔවුන්ට පෙළඹවීමක් විය.

බීපී සර් විලියම්ට ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටියේ ළමුන් හා තරුණයන්හට මේ ආකාරයෙන් හරවත් යමක් ඉදිරිපත් කලහොත් එය යුද්ධයෙන් සාමය කරා ගමන් ගන්නා මාවත විය හැකි බවය.

චරිත හැඩගැස්වීම තුල සෞඛ්‍ය ,පෞරුෂය හා විනය ගරුත්වය යන්න පදනම විය යුතු බව බීපී තදින් විශ්වාස කලේය .

විලියම් බීපී ගේ අදහසට එකඟතාව පලකර සිටි අතර Aids to Scouting පොතේ අඩංගු අවශ්‍ය දෑ පිළිබඳව අත්හදා බැලීමේ කඳවුර යෝජනා කර සිටියේය .

ඒ අනුව බීපී සිය අත්හදා බැලීමේ කඳවුර ඉංග්‍රීසි ඕඩයේ පූල් වරාය අසල වූ බ්‍රවුන්සි නම් දූපතේ පැවැත්වීමට තීරණය කලේය .ඔහුගේ සහායක වශයෙන් කටයුතු කිරීමට මේජර් කෙනත් මැක්ලැරන්ස් තෝරා ගත්තේය.

1907 අගෝස්තු 01 දින සිට 09 දක්වා පැවති කඳවුරට එංගලන්තයේ ග්‍රාමීය ප්‍රදේයන්හි ලමුන් 20 දෙනෙක් සහභාගි විය .ඔවුන් ගව, වෘක, කපුටු හා කිරළ යන සත්ව නම් ඇති කාණ්ඩ 4කට බෙදා සිට අතර ඔවුන්ට නිලඇදුමක් නොමැති විය.කාකි පාට කරලේන්සුව පැළඳ සිටි ඔවුන්ගේ උරහිසේ කාණ්ඩ වර්ණ ලෙස එක් එක් පාටැති රෙදි කඩක් ගැට ගසන ලදී.
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දිනපතා උදෑසන බීපී තම කුඩු නලාව පිඹ කඳවුරු කරුවන් අවදි කලේය .ව්‍යායාම උදෑසන ආහාරයෙන් අනතුරුව කඳවුරු බැඳීම නිරීක්ෂණය පිහිනීම ගැට වර්ග ඉගෙනීම ජීවිතාරක්ෂක ක්‍රියා වන ශිල්පය අනුන්ට පිහිටවීම ස්වදේශනානුරාගත සිතිවිලි ආදිය කඳවුරේ වැඩසටහනට එක්ව තිබිනි.දිනපතා එක් එක් කාණ්ඩයක් කඳවුරෙන් පිටතට යවා නිරීක්ෂණ හා ගවේෂණ ක්‍රියාකාරකම් සිදුකරන ලදී.දිනපතා රාත්‍රියේ ගිනිමැලය වටා සිටි ලමුන්ට බීපී අප්‍රිකානු ගෝත්‍රික කතා කියනලදී.

කඳවුරේ අවසන් රාත්‍රිය දා ගිනිමැලය වටා සිටින ලමුන්ගේ දීප්තිමත් හා ප්‍රීතිමත් මුහුණු බීපීට දැක ගත හැකි විය. අඳුරු සෙවනැලි ඉදියෙන් තමා වටේ සිටින ලමුන්ගේ දීප්තිමත් මුහුණුවල සටහන්ව තිබෙන්නේ ඔවුන්ගේ යහපත් අනාගතයේ පෙරනිමිති බව බීපීට අවබෝධ විය.
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අගෝස්තු 01 – කරලේන්සු විප්ලවය

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ලෝක බාලදක්ෂ වාර්ෂික කැලැන්ඩරයේ කැපී පෙනෙන දිනයක් වෙන්වී ඇත. එනම් ලෝක බාලදක්ෂ කරලේන්සු දිනය අගෝස්තු පළමුවෙනිදාට යෙදීමය. ඔබ බාලදක්ෂයෙකු නම් එදිනට කරලේන්සුව පැලඳ ගනිමින් එම දිනය ගත කිරීමෙන් ලෝක බාලදක්ෂ කරලේන්සු දින සැමරැමට එක්විය හැක. නිවසේ විවේකීව සිටින ආදි බාලදක්ෂයකු නම් නිවසේ හිඳිමින් කරලේන්සුව පැලඳිය හැක. ඔබ කාර්යාල සේවකයකු නම් එදිනට ටයි පටිය වෙනුවට කරලේන්සුව පැලඳිය හැකියි.

අභිමානය සිහිපත් කිරීම

එපමණක් නොව පාසල් යන ඔබ පාසලේ නිල ඇඳුමේ කමිසයට කරලේන්සුව පැලඳිය හැක. ඔබ බාලදක්ෂ සමූහයේ සමූහ නායක ලෙස විදුහල්පතිතුමා හෝ තුමිය වෙතද කරලේන්සුවක් පලඳවා ලෝක බාලදක්ෂ කරලේන්සු දිනය නිල වශයෙන් විදුහල තුළ චාම් උත්සවයක් සංවිධාන කළ හැක. ඔබ සිටින ස්ථානය, රුකියාව, තරාතිරම කුමක් වුවද ලෝක බාලදක්ෂ කරලේන්සු දිනයේ දී බාලදක්ෂයකු වීමේ අභිමානය සිහිපත් කිරීම මෙයින් සිදුවෙයි. එමෙන්ම ලෝක බාලදක්ෂ කරලේන්සු දිනයේ දී තවත් අපූරැ දෙයක් ද සිදුවෙයි.  ඔබ කැමතිම යහළුවා හට කරලේන්සුවක් පැලඳවීමට අවස්ථාවක් ලැබෙයි.

සුරතලාට ද කරලේන්සුවක්

එතැනින් නොවතින ලෝක බාලදක්ෂ කරලේන්සු දිනයේ දී ඔබ ආදරය කරන සුරතලාට ද කරලේන්සුවක් පැලඳවීමට අවස්ථාවක් ලැබෙයි. එබැවින් 2108 ලෝක බාලදක්ෂ කරලේන්සු දිනයට සක්‍රීය දායකත්වයක් ඔබ ලබාදුන් ආකාරය විජය බාලදක්ෂ කඳවුරේ ඡායාරෑප විශේෂාංගයකින් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට අපි කටයුතු කරමු. ඒ සඳහා ඔබ කළ යුත්තේ කරලේන්සුවක් සහිතව ඔබ, ඔබේ යාළුවා හෝ සුරතලා සමග ලබාගත් ඡායාරූපයක් Scouting Magazine මුහුණු පොතට හෝ scoutingmagazine@gmail.com යොමු කිරීම පමණි.
 

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Unlock a New World

24th World Scout Jamboree

Approximately 45,000 Scouts and volunteers from more than 150 countries are ready to ‘Unlock a New World’

Group picture prior to departure


Part of Sri Lankan contingent
The 24th World Scout Jamboree is presently held at the Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve in West Virginia, USA. More than 45,000 Scouts and Scouting leaders from over 150 countries including Sri Lanka will come together at the Summit Bechtel Reserve to ‘Unlock a New World’, the theme of the 24th World Scout Jamboree. A representation of a brother and sister combination from the Hathnagoda family of Kurunegala is worthy of note. 

Scout Dulith Hathnagoda
They are the children of Brig Randula and Asha Hathnagoda. This is the largest outdoor educational event organised by the World Scout Movement, gathering Scouts and leaders every four years. A staff of 10,500 volunteers will deliver a life-changing experience to Scouts from around the globe at the world’s most sustainable campsite, the 10,000-acre Summit Bechtel Reserve in West Virginia, for this once-in-a-lifetime event from 22 July to 2 August. The 12 days will be a time of great activity and excitement for Scouts from around the world as they strive to deliver an unprecedented jamboree experience.

Celebrating collaboration and partnership, the World Organisation of the Scout Movement selected Scouts Canada, Asociación de Scouts de México and the Boy Scouts of America to co-host the 2019 World Scout Jamboree. The youth bid team, known as the Dream Team, chose ‘Unlock a New World’ as the event theme to highlight the new adventures, cultures and friendships that will be shared by Scouts from around the world during this 12-day event. The 2019 World Scout Jamboree will include a wide variety of outdoor adventure activities in a camping environment at the Summit Bechtel Reserve, the most advanced adventure facility for youth in the world. Participants may choose from nearly 50 ‘wild and wonderful’ adventures such as whitewater rafting, zip lining, rock climbing, skateboarding and mountain biking.
Rover Scout Randi Hathnagoda
This international event offers an inviting atmosphere of mutual respect and understanding, and fosters social interaction and engagement among Scouts from different cultures. It will be a hub of excitement and activity. Here, National Scout Organisations are encouraged to highlight their culture and demonstrate the uniqueness of their countries. Scouts will explore the different cultures and how what makes us different can actually draw us together. Additionally, programming throughout the Jamboree will incorporate an emphasis on cross-cultural respect and engagement, as well as gender equality. 

More information about the 2019 World Scout Jamboree could be found at Scouting.lk

Other Video URL
24th WSJ Official Song - https://youtu.be/IfSQ5LJSyQk
24th World Scout Jamboree - 2019 - https://youtu.be/6tKByIsq1R8
Closing Ceremony of 24th World Scout Jamboree  - https://youtu.be/0RsMnoEIOPk
24th World Scout Jamboree Official Song - Highlights - https://youtu.be/D_VE-CULo8I

Next Video soon - Our Scouts are meeting with Scouts from around World taking part in activities together. - https://youtu.be/DghGRu2KIuw

#ScoutJamboree Cultural Day Celebration where #Scouts showed their force behind international unity and understanding.

 

Sunday, July 28, 2019

"Please sir, we’re the Girl Scouts"

Girl Scouting and the Creation of the Girl Guides (1908–1916)

Though the movement wasdesigned exclusively for boys who set up Scout troops across Britain, Baden-Powell’sscheme also appealed to young girls who began to adopt the title ‘scout’. The ‘model’ Scouting citizen was also distinctly male. Many of the roots of themovement are founded in a ‘hard-bodied masculine ideal’ and Baden-Powell sought tocreate a space for men and boys of different backgrounds to build a male community tiedup with ideas of patriotism, patriarchy and empire.
Many individuals have claimed to be the first ‘girl scout’, or have been dubbed so in thepress. However, the reality is that there were hundreds of girls who began Scouting inBritain during 1908. In many cases, girls acquired or borrowed a copy ofScouting for Boysfrom male relatives and were enthralled by the promises of adventure and fun it contained.Girl scouts organised themselves into small troops of female family members and friendsor joined with boys to create mixed troops, as did Marguerite du Beaumont from Norfolk: 
We simply dressed ourselves, turned our stockings down on our knees, collected all thebroomsticks we could find in the broom cupboard and went to Scout HQ and bought scouthats, which in those days you could do. They didn’t ask us who we were or anything about it. Itwas a mixed patrol, we had two little boys, I think four little girls...and we used to doScouting.
Acquiring scout hats, adjusting stockings and appropriating broomsticks were thebeginnings of self-styled scout uniforms for girls, which in other accounts included scout shirts hand-sewn by girls themselves. Miss Elsie Lee, described as ‘the first girl scout in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne’, is shown in Figure 1 photographed in her ‘hotchpotch’ uniform.
Miss Elsie Lee, the first girl scout in Newcastle upon Tyne (1908)
Elsie is photographed wearing a patterned blouse rather than an official khaki scoutshirt and a fashioned scarf or necktie in place of an authorised Group neckerchief. She is,however, modelling an official scout hat adorned with the insignia of afleur-de-lisandmaking the scout sign with the right hand as outlined inScouting for Boys.Thiscombination of official parts of the ‘culture’ of Scouting, crossed with homemade uniformalternatives to appear in the likeness of a scout, demonstrates the difficulties of how afounding organisation could control the users and interpretations of its ideas once thesewere placed in the public sphere.
Girl scouts such as Elsie went largely unnoticed during the organisation’s formativemonths, particularly as Scouting was a largely grassroots development with groups ofyoung people forming troops in towns and villages without central co-ordination. In othercases, local Scoutmasters representing the national Scout authorities ‘on the ground’accepted direct requests from girls, such as Sybil Cannadine from London, to be scouts.Sybil and her friends approached the Scoutmaster at St. Mark’s Camberwell, who ‘saw noreason why not, but couldn’t give us any help, except the book’.
Girl scouts, wherever they were meeting, and whoever they were meeting with, were inessence performing the same practices and activities as the boy scouts. To imagine fromthese accounts the adventures these girl scouts had on Saturdays, and to hear theexcitement and child-like passion in Sybil’s now elderly voice, is to gain a sense of howinspiring the original messages of Scouting would have been. In participating in the sameadventurous activities designed for male youth, I would argue that these original girlscouts were also engaging with powerful ideas about the nation and empire – ideas notintended for them. These girls had begun, at an informal independent level, to negotiatethe meanings about who could be a scout and the overarching constructions of both a(masculine) Scouting self and wider collective body of boy scouts. However, they couldonly do this to a certain extent as they were not allowed to participate in authorisedScouting spaces.
The official message from Headquarters on the issue of girl scouts was somewhatmisleading. A report from a Scout Competition in Wimbledon in May 1908 stated that ‘wewere very glad to see...several girl scouts wearing their badges’. Baden-Powell himselfprofessed that girls could be worthy and useful scouts and that ‘I am always glad to hear ofgirls’ patrols being formed’; he even went as far to say that ‘there is no reason at all whygirls should not study scoutcraft’. Conversely, parents and politicians found plenty ofreasons why girls should not study scoutcraft, based largely on Edwardian views aboutgender and the troubling rise of tomboys (Dyhouse 1981). The presence of girl scoutsthreatened the respectability and undermined the moral (single-sex) purpose of this neworganisation inspired by a number of gender and race-related anxieties (MacDonald 1993).The public criticism Baden-Powell received for seemingly allowing girl scouts meant thisissue needed to be resolved quickly. As the months went by, Headquarters started toregulate the spaces of Scouting with registration procedures, and yet girl scouts somehowcircumvented these new elements of control. When denied official access, many applied tobecome members anyway and access materials through the post using only their initials, orthrough their brothers’ names. This allowed girl scouts to go relatively unnoticed bydisguising their real identity and evading the attention of authorities.
This official Boy Scout enrolment card had either been ordered by, or come into thepossession of, nine-year-old Phyllis Hasker, who then crossed out the printed word ‘Boy’that precedes ‘Scout’ and replaced it with ‘Girl’ on two occasions. Furthermore, instead ofthis card being completed by a Scoutmaster, Phyllis has consciously decided to record herown progress as an independent scout, though it is noted that no further achievements arerecorded. This not only highlights how individual girls bypassed the machinery ofScouting as an organisation, but also the ways in which young people practised Scoutingaway from the authoritative gaze of adults associated with youth work and educationalspaces. The card, emblazoned with official scout insignia and illustrations of knots andscout hats, is a personal artefact that tells of the individual appeal to Scouting and thecreativity of naming one’s patrol (in this case, ‘Stork’).  The seemingly banal act of crossing out a word and making this into a girl scout card can be seen as an act ofappropriation as well as demonstrative of the sense of belonging that the movementinspired – to boysandgirls. It also highlights that whilst there was a different and self-styled form of Scouting for girls, individuals such as Phyllis still utilised the officialmaterials produced by the organisation. These types of objects, despite being appropriatedby girl scouts, ultimately supported and reiterated Scouting ideals and (gendered)geopolitical identities.
Enrolment card (1909)
‘Scout’ and replaced it with ‘Girl’
Girl scouts would soon open up new spaces of engagement and negotiation in thepublic sphere through their desire to access the same spaces as boys and fully participate inthe activities and ethos of being a Scouting citizen. By 1909, over 6000 girls had registeredwith headquarters as scouts and in September of that year, the first ever Boy Scout Rallywas held at Crystal Palace in London (Scout Association 2006, 48). The rally was attendedby over 10,000 boys as well as an unexpected small number of girl scouts who‘gatecrashed’ dressed in their homemade and borrowed uniforms. Figure 3 shows girlscouts at the review standing amongst boy scouts, to whom the King sent a message urgingthem ‘to do their duty as men should any danger threaten the empire’.
Accounts vary about the response the girls received. Whilst Sybil describes that ‘wewere laughed at, we were whistled at, there were cat-calls, butwedidn’t mind – we werethere and we werepartof the show’, Marguerite recalls that ‘nobody took the slightest bitof notice of us’. On arrival, for many girl scouts, it was a shock to see boys:
It was a Scout rally and, of course, having called ourselves scouts, we thought all scouts weregirls and boys – mixed. But then we discovered they weren’t – they were all boys...Andthen B.P. himself came up to us and said ‘what are you doing here? Who are you?’ We said‘Please Sir, we’re the girl scouts’ and he said ‘I’ve never heard of you. Anyway, you bettercome and join in’ which of course pleased us very much.
in official Guiding and Scouting mythology, this Rally isoften cited as the ‘first time’ Baden-Powell realised he needed to create a separateorganisation for girls and yet my previous discussion highlights that Baden-Powellhadheard and written about girl scouts prior to the Rally.