{"id":6540,"date":"2024-06-22T10:38:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T10:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terciariascapuchinas.org\/en\/?p=6540"},"modified":"2024-06-22T12:28:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T12:28:16","slug":"sowing-seeds-of-change-boy-scouts-as-guardians-of-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terciariascapuchinas.org\/en\/sowing-seeds-of-change-boy-scouts-as-guardians-of-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abSowing Seeds of Change: Boy Scouts as Guardians of the Environment.\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Three loud whistles and to the cheerful cry of \u201cManada, manada\u201d! And to the response of \u00abScouts be prepared!\u00bb the boys who make up the group of swains get ready to begin the afternoon program.<\/p>

The Scout movement by nature emphasizes the values of our spirituality \u00abFranciscan – Amigonian\u00bb since the patron of the movement is \u00abFrancis of Assisi\u00bb and a very important emblem for the \u00abPack\u00bb of Cub Scouts, is the metaphor that arises from the little flower of St. Francis and the wolf. While I was in Chiquimula I had the opportunity to activate the Scout Group #62 \u00abFather Luis Amig\u00f3\u00bb; the movement provides the opportunity to give the formation of \u201cZagales\u201d and Scout skills, making this a very meaningful experience for children and young people who participated in it.<\/p>

A particularity of the movement is that it is a space where technologies are not used and where you can connect with nature and with you brothers and sisters , through games, challenges and adventure; a principle of the movement is that as a\u00a0 leader of the movement you have to get involved in everything the children do, not as an onlooker or someone \u00abwho commands\u00bb but following the example of Jesus, someone who serves and gets involved, an aspect that is quite significant for the children; it is evident that it is a valuable experience for them in expressions such as: This is the best thing that has happened to my life! The sisters go first so I am encouraged to continue follow them! The children understand and internalize that the leader is the one who serves, the one who goes first and the one who makes an impact by giving\u00a0 example.<\/p>

The members of the scout movement, as well as those who are not part of it, receive touches of the movement’s philosophy, since the fact of activating a group like this impacts the entire educational community, making the students in general be fascinated by their natural environment, \u00abfall in love with it\u00bb, this through participation in the scouting activities. This is achieved through participation in camps, reforestation days, days of contemplation of nature in rural environments, and convivial gatherings where enjoyment and joy are undeniable, sowing in them the awareness that in nature the different dimensions of God are revealed to us.<\/p>

To the children of the movement as to the young people of the school, we sow the seed and the conscience of the \u00abchange of chip\u00bb not doing activities for the sake of doing them but starting from the small, making them aware that all, scouts and non-scouts \u00abWe are called to leave the world better than how we found it\u00bb and convincing them from concrete and small actions as for example \u00abI am the change I put down the garbage in its place\u00bb and when achieving this small but important action to continue with more complex actions as separating the types of waste.By organizing the students by grades to help the maintenance staff to check how the waste is separated and finding out how unpleasant it can be when it is not properly separated, they generate the awareness that every small or large action has a positive or negative impact on the common house.<\/p>

With the significant learning that comes from the Scout philosophy combined with the Amigonian pedagogy, \u00abecological conversion\u00bb is progressively achieved and young people and children are able to export this knowledge at home and replicate the change.<\/p>

I am currently in Totonicap\u00e1n and i am making my way to reactivate the movement. I am in charge of JUVAM and while it is true that I encourage this spirit of encounter with nature and to raise awareness of the values of \u201cLaudato Si\u201d, little by little the ground is being prepared so that young people and children, together with teachers and the community of sisters, can go down the path of the process of \u00abecological conversion\u00bb and the progressive experience of an \u00abIntegral Ecology\u00bb.<\/p>

It is worth mentioning that both, the Colegio Sagrada Familia of Chiquimula City (where I had the opportunity to develop this experience) and the Colegio Pedro de Bethancourt in Totonicap\u00e1n City ,have been recognized with the \u201cBandera Verde Ecol\u00f3gica\u201d award granted by the Municipality of Guatemala City and the Chamber of Commerce of Guatemala, Both institutions are also working together with the Human Rights Office of the Archdiocese of Guatemala to deepen the \u00abLaudato Si\u00bb and provide experiences that support and motivate this mission of \u00abSowing seeds of change in children and young people who become environment\u00a0 keepers\u00bb.<\/p>

S. Sheny Mar\u00eda Fajardo M\u00e9ndez<\/strong><\/em><\/p>

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Three loud whistles and to the cheerful cry of \u201cManada, manada\u201d! And to the response of \u00abScouts be prepared!\u00bb the boys who make up the group of swains get ready to begin the afternoon program. The Scout movement by nature emphasizes the values of our spirituality \u00abFranciscan – Amigonian\u00bb since the patron of the movement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terciariascapuchinas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terciariascapuchinas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terciariascapuchinas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terciariascapuchinas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terciariascapuchinas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6540"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.terciariascapuchinas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6588,"href":"https:\/\/www.terciariascapuchinas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions\/6588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terciariascapuchinas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terciariascapuchinas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terciariascapuchinas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terciariascapuchinas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}