Scouting

Scouting

Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement with the stated aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, that they may play constructive roles in society....

exists in Kosovo

Kosovo

Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...

both as part of the Savez Izviđača Srbije as well as independent groups.

A report on the current situation and possible perspectives was published by the European Scout Region http://www.europak-online.net/images/Europak/europak10/may10/Open%20Meeting%20in%20Kosovo.pdf. The report mentions at least five different organizations:

• Savez Izviđača Kosova i Metohije is the regional council of the Savez Izviđača Srbije, member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement
  World Organization of the Scout Movement
  The World Organization of the Scout Movement is the Non-governmental international organization which governs most national Scout Organizations, with 31 million members. WOSM was established in 1920, and has its headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland...
  
  
• the Qendra Nacionale e Vëzhguesve të Kosovës (National Scout Center of Kosovo), a provisional member of the World Federation of Independent Scouts
  World Federation of Independent Scouts
  The World Federation of Independent Scouts is the non-governmental international organization which governs 82 affiliated Scout Organizations in 41 countries, with an estimated 200,000 members in 3562 Scout Groups...
  
   (WFIS)
• Kosovo Scout Association
• Kosovo Scout Federation
• Scouts of Kosovo

Additional organizations include:

• the Shoqata e Vëzhguesve Rinia e Kosovës/Društvo Izvidjaca Omaladina Kosova (Kosovo Young Scout Association)

The Scout Motto is Буди Спреман (Budi Spreman) in Serbian

Serbian language

Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

, translating as "Be Prepared", and Ji Gati, "Be Prepared" in Albanian

Albanian language

Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...

. The common Serbian term for all members, regardless of section, is "Izviđač" (meaning "Scout"). The Albanian noun for a single Scout is Skaut.

External links

• Qendra Nacionale e Vëzhguesve të Kosovës
• Lidhja e Vëzhguesve Rinia e Kosovës/Društvo Izvidjaca Omaladina Kosova/Youth Scouts League of Kosovo