EMPOWERING SCOUTS WITH SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL
A national scout camp is as exciting for scouts as the football world cup because it only appears once every four years. However, along with my team (consisting of 7 members), I was assigned to raise awareness among the scouts from around the country. National jamboree is very precious for us because very few times we get to join in. Enthusiast scouts, regardless of age, gender from different parts of the country, have joined this jamboree to show their skill, learn the motives of scouting, and be a part of the 10th Bangladesh & 3rd SAANSO scout jamboree. Coming to the point, there was a dedicated area of approximately 5 acres, where few rovers have designed, shaped, and enlightened the whole area with the name "sustainable development village," which was solely dedicated to educating scouts about SDG and its goals by games and fun activities. I worked on the decoration and gadgets that resemble SDG and its 17 goals along with my teammates. There was a 40 feet tall gate eventually turned into a great background for shaping, and its design has mesmerized everyone, irrespective of local people, scouts, leaders, and volunteers. Furthermore, we created 17 blocks, and each was focusing on the goals separately and mostly after dusk that was also a source of profile pictures for uncountable scouts. Additionally, the camp was generated for eight thousand scouts, including few foreign states such as Nepal, India, Bhutan, e.t.c. Every day the field and the entire village were busy with footprints of scouts from different villages, and each village contained 300 scouts, including their unit leaders, more or less. Dedicated rovers were there to conduct games with SDG content, and other information was also provided sub centrally, and happily, I was one of them.