Scouting in the Czech Republic
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This article is from the Scouting FAQ, by Bill Nelson nelsonb@nospam.aztec.asu.edu, Soaring Golden Eagle eagle@rangernet.org and Alan Houser troop24@emf.net with numerous contributions by others.
Scouting in the Czech Republic
Let me introduce JUNK - the Association of the Boyscouts and Girl
Guides in the Czech Republic. Members of WOSM and WAGGGS
Skautské køiovatce.
Our organization was founded by A.B.Svojs=A1k in 1911. JUN`AK was banned
after the nazi occupation in 1940, after the communist coup in 1948 and
after the Soviet occupation of our country in 1970. Scouts were
persecuted, but all the time, scouting had been continued here, even
illegally. Since 1989 we have existed legally again.
At the moment we are members of IFOFSAG, WOSM and WAGGGS.
We are the merged organization (one organization, one administration,
but too different programs for boyscouts and girl guides, no
coeducation). At the moment our organization has got approximately
70 000 members (our country has got 10 000 000 citizens).
We are using these age ranks :
(info about spelling: because I can't send the Czech alphabet through
the Internet, instead of the "hacek", originally a small "v" above the
letter, I have to use " ~ " before it, instead of the "carka",
originally a small comma above the letters, I used " ' " before it and
instead of "krouzek", a small circle above the letter, I use " ` ")
6-11 years
vl~cata/wolf cubs and sv~etlu~sky/fire flies
(the name for our brownies was chosen by the book Brou~cci by Jan
Karafi'at)
12-15
skauti/boyscouts and skautky/girl guides
15-18(25...)
rove~ri/rovers and rangers
18-...
oldskauti/oldscouts
[The czech scout law and promises have been moved to the "law and promises"
article at the end of this FAQ]
As you can see, the Czech scouts promise is quite unusual. It's because
of the historical background. In 1911, when our movement was founded,
our state didn't exist yet. The area of the todays Czech Republic was
part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empeire. Czech people didn't like that
absolutistic state at all (government tried to oppress them not to use
the Czech language and to speak German, in the last years there was
a strong police state etc.). The main supports for regime were the army,
the police and the catholic church. These were the reasons, that in our
promise wasn't the loayality to the king or to the supreme being
expressed.
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