So, What do International Scouting Committees do?

	The El Salvador Relief After the devastating earthquake		Eagle Scouts in Japan Leadership in action.
	The Irkutsk Relief Scouts helping Scouts help.		Scout-O-Rama ! The Int'l Team acts locally.
	The World Friendship Fund Helping emerging Scouting programs.		Jamboree On The Internet Digital Ambassadorship!

The El Salvador Relief On January 13, 2001 an earthquake measuring 7.6 in magnitude struck El Salvador, 65 miles off shore, southwest of San Miguel. The effect was devastating. Following this tragic earthquake, we were contacted by our El Salvadoran Scouting friends asking us if there is any way we can help them to help their citizens in the painfully slow recovery process. Our International Scouting Committee (IC) is working to provide some of this help in the form of a direct contribution to the El Salvadoran Scout organization. Some funds have already been raised, but to make a significant contribution to their program and truly help them, we need your help in the form of additional contributions. A beautiful El Salvadoran Scouting Friendship patch is available to those that contribute. [ Back To Top ]

Scout-O-Rama ! The Mt. Diablo Silverado Council International Committee participates in local Scout-O-Ramas each year. This year, as always, our focus was Scouting around the World. And, in the truest sense, we were "thinking locally, and acting globally." Connecting our Council's Scouts with Scouts around the World was our focus. Using several computers, connected to the Internet, our Scouts 'chatted' with Scouts in Australia, Germany, Canada, and beyond. They also surfed the Web, visiting numerous Scout-sites, signing Guestbooks all along the way. Held on March 21, 1998 at the Antioch, California Fairgrounds (near San Francisco), and with well over 100 units participating, this year's event was a GREAT success! There was something there for Scouts of all ages.... arts and crafts, climbing and rappelling, the Pinewood Derby and Rain Gutter Regatta, cooking and eating, outdoor and backpack exhibits, camp and trail-crafts, kayak construction and leather working, awesome kite making and of course, fun! [ Back To Top ]

Eagles in Japan Back in 1996, President Clinton met with the Japanese government to discuss ways the leaders of tomorrow could work together with more harmony and understanding into the next century. The Japanese government looked at Scouting in Japan and America to find those future leaders. They funded a five-year program which, in part, included a friendship visit by a group of American Eagle Scouts to Japan to meet their Japanese counterparts. Chosen for their outstanding potential, a group of six San Francisco Bay Area Eagle Scouts traveled to Okayama, Japan in the Spring of 1998. While in Japan, the Eagle Scouts were invited by the Japanese government to take part in a leadership conference called, "A Dream for the 21st Century." They met and shared ideas with Japanese Boy Scouts, some of whom were Fuji Scouts, the Japanese equivalent or Eagle Scouts. The group even got a chance to meet with Japan's prime minister of education. [ Back To Top ]

Irkutsk Relief in Russia On December 6, 1997 disaster struck in Irkutsk, Russia. A Russian AN-124 military transport, the size of a Boeing 747, crashed on take off. The aircraft laden with 140 metric tons of fuel plunged into a residential neighborhood leveling an apartment building and destroying an orphanage that housed 120 children. The conflagration was spread over an area of more than 1,000 sq. meters and ultimately killed many people. The Siberian Scouts of Irkutsk did what Scouts everywhere have always done; they responded to this disaster. Among other things, they contacted us via the Internet with an appeal to help with donations of warm clothes, blankets and toys for the orphans. Our Scouts with the support of Girl Scouts, some churches, and local Rotary clubs quickly and enthusiastically responded! They collected 1,250 pounds of clothes, blankets and toys for Irkutsk in six days. This is a great example of Scouts in two countries working together in a time of need! [ Back To Top ]

The World Friendship Fund As a sign of our support-in-brotherhood for Scouts and Scouting in Central America, we are offering the very limited 1999-2000 World Friendship Fund patch for a minimum $6.00 donation to the fund. Proceeds from the project will be donated, through the World Organization of Scouting Movement and the BSA, to emerging Scouting programs in Africa. So "Make a World of Difference!" Encourage your unit to make a group donation, as well as giving individual donations. Scouting opportunities should be available to youth around the world! You can help make it happen. [ Back To Top ]