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100-strong boy scouts contingent off to Centennial World Jamboree


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FILIPINO boys scouts - the third-largest population in the world after Indonesians and Americans - will pitch camp together with 28,000 young people from more than 150 countries in the 21st World Scout Jamboree to be held in the United Kingdom from July 27 to August 8. The contingent left yesterday (July 25) for London.

Aside from being the largest regular event organized by the scouting movement, the World Jamboree is celebrating its centenary this year right in its birthplace in England. The boy scouts are arriving on the jamboree site at Hylands Park, Chelmsford - 50 kilometers northeast of London. They are expecting to meet conditions that scouts had to put up in 1907 when Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the father of the scouting movement, ushered the dawn of the scouting age in the UK.

"There will be no electricity in the camp and our scouts will have to endure frigid morning showers," said Jose Eduardo Delgado, program director of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP).

The BSP is sending a 100-strong delegation who all share both scouting passion and history.

There are the second- and third-generation Delgados who had been part of previous World Jamborees. Jose Eduardo Delgado was part of the 600-man Philippine contingent to the World Scout Jamboree in Japan in 1971. His son, Jose Paulo, went to the World Jamboree in the Netherlands in 1991. Both are carrying on the scouting tradition started by their father Antonio, the first Filipino to become chairman of the World Scout Committee in 1971. A second-generation Delgado was also part of a 24-member Philippine contingent to the 11th World Scout Jamboree in Greece who perished in a plane crash in 1963.

Leading this year's Philippine contingent is Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay, national president of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP). Also part of the contingent is Atty. Francisco Roman, former BSP national president and the second Filipino to head the World Scout Committee.

For the first time, The Coca-Cola Company in the Philippines is sending its own 10-man delegation - called "Coca-Cola Patrol" - as part of its continuing partnership with the BSP. The sponsorship covers airfare, scout uniforms, materials, meals and participation fees. The company has also been sponsoring the BSP's Ten Outstanding Boy Scouts (TOBS) Awards for the last 10 years.

There are an estimated 2.2 million Filipino boy scouts all over the country from preschool to high school levels. The Philippines has one of the highest penetration rates, with one out of two boys of scouting age signed up as scouts. Scouting is regarded as non-formal education, complementing skills that can be learned in school.

"Scouting teaches values and skills necessary for survival. It's a brotherhood that promotes camaraderie and peace," Delgado said. "The World Jamboree is an opportunity for our boys to share a common experience with scouts from various nationalities. This experience comes once in a lifetime and joining it is a life-changing event."

100-member Philippine Contingent at the Airport before boarding the plane
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