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Studies show that being a member of the scouts or guides during childhood is linked to a lower risk of mental illness.
The initiative seeks to encourage children to develop values embraced by scouts such as community involvement, teamwork, bio-empathy, love for learning and emotional intelligence.
The event was hosted outdoors where workshops were conducted in tents and children enjoyed an authentic scouting ambiance.
The workshops focused on raising awareness on mental health and teaching positive skills that are essential for children through arts and a creative approach. Other activities included basic scouting skills like knot tying, celestial navigation as well as outdoor yoga and meditation.
In addition, the initiative aimed to contribute to sustainable development goal (SDG) target 3.4, which focuses on raising awareness on mental health and reducing its risks by 2030, which is essential to raising generations that are positively engaged in their communities and societies
We've divided the work into three paths
1-Educational path :
The workshops were divided into five main workshops under the supervision of specialists in the field of mental health, each of which carried the title: (Expression of feelings, sexual harassment, community bullying, better awareness for the child). Also the (Safe Home) workshop for parents, which was aimed at balancing the mental health aspect between the child and his family.
The biggest challenge of this initiative was to achieve its objectives through innovative and unconventional methods, and we are keen to coordinate with specialists in this field to reach the best possible ideas.
2-Applied Path:
According to the study on the methods and techniques of Scouting and its impact on the health of the child we have done a Scout camp is part of the educational workshops, where the basics were applied in scout camps for the boy scouts and girl scouts through the Scout Movement and the movement of girl guides and we split the work for several Stages
- the definition of the Scout Movement:
We have taught the children the beginnings of the Scout Movement and its story in an interesting way by showing some short films
- the definition of the World Scout Messengers of Peace programme, the paths, the important role for making the peace process through the Methods of Scouting
- scouting skills
Conducting Scout workshops in (leadership directives) and types of fire, contract and scout ties
- scouts campfire
3- Sustainability Solutions :
the initiative is linked to goal 3.4, which enhances the value of mental health to reach more radical solutions and health well-being by 2030, we have put in place many solutions that ensure the achievement of this goal. For children and to give them the ability to deliver this value to those around them we have created the completion file, which is intended mainly to make the child perform the basic applications that he teaches in the workshops and prepare a story or message written by the child himself
In the future, we aspire to prepare and present the children themselves after adequate training and supervision of the scientific materials of specialists and we succeeded in making the first step to this goal where we participated the young trainer Faris Al-Faris in the presentation of a yoga session for the children, he offered some methods to reach the goal of internal expression Through the exercises prepared for them