1. Inspire

Senior Scout can be inspired in one of the following ways

• Observe a Messengers of Peace event or activity organized at Scout Troop, District or National level

• Watch a documentary/ listen to a speech related to MoP facilitated by District MoP Coordinator/ ADC Program / Scout Leader

2. Learn & Decide

Learn and decide on a possible project that Senior Scout would like to be involved in. (The subject matter should be in relation to an experience that inspired the Senior Scout), which covers one or more Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

• Give a Soft copy / Scan statement to Scout Leader regarding the Project plan

• Scout Leader shall submit proposal format through the ADC Program to District Messengers of Peace Coordinator (Proposal format is annexed)

3. Do

Organize the selected service project, spending no less than 24 service hours of individual contribution with the participation of members of the Scout troop (as the organizer of the project)

4. Share

Share the success story of the project via www.scout.org website (mandatory) & submit the specimen form (report) to the District Messengers of Peace Coordinator through ADC Program.

Awarding

With the Recommendation of relevant District officials, District MoP Coordinator shall submit the specimen form to the National Head Quarters & National MoP Core team will issue the Messengers of Peace Ring badge and the certificate. In the absence of District MoP coordinator, ADC Program will submit the specimen form to the NHQ.

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1. Contact District Scout of the World Award (SWA) coordinator and Explore the World Heritage related projects with his help and guidance.

2. Complete Scout of the World Discovery workshop organized by Sri Lanka Scout Association

3. Decide your role in the Patrimonito project

   1. As a camp leader - you will elaborate the entire project and recruit a team

   2. Or As a volunteer - you will take part in a project already prepared either by fellow Scouts or World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) Initiative.

4. If you are joining the project as a camp leader

   1. Contact the UNESCO World Heritage site authorities through NSO Scout of the World Award National Coordinator & District Coordinator for Scout of the World Award

   2. Recruit a team of Scouts and/or non-Scout volunteer(s)

   3. Get ready with logistical arrangements

   4. Draft a project (including hands-on and awareness raising activities)

5. If you are joining the project as a volunteer

   1. Choose a SWA Voluntary Project which has been already planned by a Camp leader with the help of District SWA Coordinator .

   2. Contact the project organization directly to find out more about the activities and the logistical requirements to participate in the WHV project.

6. Complete a SW Award Voluntary Service in a World Heritage property or a site on the Tentative Lists with the support of the SW Award national team and World Heritage property authorities

   1. The SW Award Voluntary Service stage should consist minimum of 24 service hours of individual contribution with the participation of members of the Scout troop (as the organizer of the project)

   2. As volunteer, your participation in a SW Award Voluntary Service stage or a World Heritage Volunteers project should last the whole duration of the project you have chosen.

   3. Once Senior Scout has completed the SW Award Discovery and the SW Award Voluntary Service (as camp leader or volunteer),

      1. Join the SW Award Network by sharing the project on www.scout.org

      2. Complete the Project report of your World Heritage Scout Projects (see attached) and submit it to ADC Program

Awarding

With the Recommendation of relevant District officials, District SWA Coordinator shall submit the specimen form to the National Head Quarters & National SWA Coordinator will issue the Patriomonito Scout Badge and the certificate. In the absence of District SWA coordinator, ADC Program will submit the specimen form (report) to the NHQ.

Project Proposal

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1. Scouts of the World Discovery (SW Discovery)

Participate in Scouts of the World Discovery (SW Discovery) workshop conducted by Sri Lanka Scout Association

2. Scouts of the World Voluntary Service (SW Voluntary Service)

• Plan for a voluntary service in order to contribute to solving a problem related to development, peace, or the environment.

• Conduct Scout of the Voluntary Service (SW Voluntary Service) with minimum of 24 service hours of individual contribution with the participation of members of the Scout troop (as the organizer of the project)

• Share the success story of the project via www.scout.org website (mandatory)

Submit report to the District Coordinator in charge of Scout of the World Award through ADC Program

Awarding

With the Recommendation of relevant District officials, District SWA Coordinator shall submit the specimen form to the National Head Quarters & National SWA coordinator will issue the Badge and the certificate. In the absence of District SWA coordinator, ADC Program will submit the specimen form (report) to the NHQ.

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Be aware

• Complete the self-assessment of Senior Scout’s knowledge and understanding of the relationship between humans, nature and biodiversity with the help of the badge examiner (Examiner to advice the Scout and give the necessary documents)

• Decide which learning path would Senior Scout like to work on (Better Choices or Nature and Biodiversity) with the help of the badge examiner

• Complete 3 activities from one of the selected pathways to understand about the selected pathway with the help of badge examiner. (Examiner to give details of the activities and help the Scout to select the activity that he would prefer)

List of activities

“Better Choices” pathway

• What is your stand on?

• Four corners

• Food pyramid

“Nature and Biodiversity” pathway

• S.E.E the links

• Discovering Nature with Seek App by Naturalist

• One Planet

• Storytelling - Pixar Pitch

Cooperate

• Plan an environment related community service project at Scout Troop level with the help of Scout Master (with the participation of maximum group of 8 Senior Scouts /1 Patrol). Contribution from each Senior Scout Should be 16 service hours

  • Identify environmental issues or needs in your area

  • Explore possible solutions with fellow Senior Scouts

  • Design an action plan to execute the community project

Act

• Execute the agreed plans for the service project.

• Submit a report to the badge examiner on the Service project

Awarding

With the Recommendation of relevant District officials, District Coordinator shall submit the specimen form to the National Head Quarters & National Champions for Nature Challenge coordinator will issue the Badge and the certificate. In the absence of District coordinator, ADC Program will submit the specimen form (report) to the NHQ.

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Be aware

• Complete a Self-Assessment on how much does Senior Scout understand the issues related to plastics, plastic waste, and plastic pollution. (Examiner to advice the Scout and give the necessary documents)

• Complete Plastic Audit Quiz to assess plastic usage in Senior Scout’s day today life (Examiner to advice the Scout and give the necessary documents)

• Complete minimum of 4 activities from the Healthy Planet Activity list for the Preventing and Recovering water and land Ecosystems from pollution.

• (Examiner to give details of the activities and help the Scout to select the activity that he would prefer)

List of activities

1. Audit your Plastic Habit

2. Litter, why does it matter

3. Litter Blitz

4. Regulating the use of plastics

5. Making a Poster on Marine Pollution

6. Audit your Plastic Habit

Cooperate

Plan an environment related community service project at Scout troop level with the help of Scout Leader (with the participation of maximum group of 8 Senior Scouts /1 Patrol). Contribution from each Senior Scout Should be 16 service hours.

• Identify environmental issues or needs in your area with the teams, community, and partners.

• Explore possible solutions with fellow Senior Scouts

• Design an action plan to execute the community project

Act

• Execute the agreed plans for the service project.

• Submit a report to the badge examiner on the Service project

Awarding

With the Recommendation of relevant District officials, District Coordinator shall submit the specimen form to the National Head Quarters & National Tide Turners Plastic Challenge coordinator will issue the Badge and the certificate. In the absence of District coordinator, ADC Program will submit the specimen form (report) to the NHQ.

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1. Know about Sun, Solar energy and how it is related to our life

2. Know about renewable & nonrenewable energy sources

3. Know about good and bad impacts of the Sun on health and environment

4. Know about how to minimize bad impacts of the Sun on health and environment

5. Know about the uses of solar energy and the technologies to harness the energy from Sun.

6. Perform following Solar activities (03 activities from each section) during a level 03 Solar introduction workshop including compulsory activities

7. Organize and execute a community service project with the Patrol (maximum of 8 scouts) for a minimum of 72 Service hours (total contribution)

Sun is Life – Activity List

• Chasing Light

• Shadow Thief

• Solar Art

• Colours of Solar energy

• Sundial

• Solar and other energy sources (Compulsory)

• Solar compass

Impact of the Sun on health and environment – Activity List

• Sunglasses

• Your greenhouse

• Ozone and sunburn

• Don’t get a sunburn

• How to treat a sunstroke (Compulsory)

• Ozone and breathing

• UV rays and SPF

Uses of solar energy – Activity List

• Sun one day – Every day

• Solar box cooker

• Pure water (SODIS method)

• Collect water

• Solar Quiz (Compulsory)

• Your Solar lamp

Go Solar – Activity List

• Have a Solar lunch (Balanced diet – Compulsory)

• Use clean water

• Have a solar shower

• Install a warm water collector

Awarding

With the Recommendation of relevant District officials, District Coordinator shall submit the specimen form to the National Head Quarters & National Scouts Go Solar Challenge coordinator will issue the Badge and the certificate. In the absence of District coordinator, ADC Program will submit the specimen form (report) to the NHQ.

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1. Start a friendship with a Scout abroad

2. Communicate with the Scout regularly - this could be done via telephone, e-mail, WhatsApp, IMO, Viber or such messengers & voice over IP applications

3. Keep a log on your activities (Screenshots if connected via digitally), the badge examining authority recommends to demonstrate use of video calls with your friend in-front of the badge examiner.

Criteria for winning the badge

The testing authority is the ADC international

​Senior Scouts

Friendship for 6 months as follows:

• Connect 12 times over 6 months = 3 points

• Can Score maximum 12 points from 24 contacts

• Know your friends family = 2 points

• Know lots of details of your friend = 2 points

• Connect with text chat = 2 points

• Basic foreign language dialogue = 4 points

• Fluent foreign language dialogue = 6 points

• Exchange experiences = 4 points

• Exchange Photos = 4 points

• Share celebrations = 4 points

• Maintain Friendship log (E/book) = 4 points

20/40 points needed for Badge award

Sample Report

The following are the details to be included in a report to complete and achieve the international friendship badge.

Personal details

The badge report should contain general information about you. Here is a list of mandatory fields recommended by the badge examining authority.

• Name - Full name

• Date of Birth (DD/MM/YYYY)

• Address

• Scout Registration number

• School

• Scout Group - 39th Colombo Scout Group

• Scout Section - Junior

• Contact number

• Email address

Details of the International friend(s)

The badge report should contain information about your international friend(s). Each friend should consist a separate table.

• Portrait or Pictures of your international friend(s) : You may include photos of your international friend(s) or other pictures your friend(s) share, only with his/her/their consent.

• Proof of Chats and Calls : You may include screenshots or logs of your chats, calls and any other type of media used for communication in your report as the proof of your friendship with his/her/their consent.

• Other information : You may include other information as per your requirements (Scout Group, hobbies, family details, etc) with his/her/their consent.

Aids to Friendship

• There is an extensive section on friendship, how to build friendship, who are bad friends, what to do when a friendship goes bad in the 'Safe from Harm Training Manual of SLSA'

• Possible topics for discussion with friends such as their hometown, where they grew - up, school life, activities they love, sports they play and love, home and chores, cultural highlights, family & friends, favourite dishes & food, religious festivals and accomplishments.

• Friends will be encourages to teach each other their own favourite games/ songs/ activities; with the help of their parents, they can even exchange easy recipes from each nation involved with their friends. It is expected that these mutual exchange of ideas will be taught to their own troops.

• SLSA plans to have it's own friendship Bank in the near future. After that initiation scouts can obtain contacts for their communication and the achievement of their badge.

• Scouts and Rovers also can contact friends formed from International World Scout jamborees, Jota joti, etc.

• https://www.facebook.com/intscoutingslsa will function as the resource for the international Friendship Programme and Badge

After the completion of the report, it should be sent to ADC-international / Colombo district, Carbon Copying to the e-mail of the District Commissioner of the Colombo district as given below.

• Mr. Rohitha Steinwall (ADC International) - steinwall@gmail.com

• Mr Amil Abeysundara (District Commissioner) - gihan@amilbuilders.com

For further information;

ADC International - Mr. Rohitha Steinwall,

Colombo district branch,

Sri Lanka Scout Association.

E-mail - Steinwall@gmail.com

Phone - +94 77 517 1222

The updated information was extracted by the report submitted by the CSYAG and credits goes to the respective owners.

1. Learn

Choose seven learning objectives (objectives 1 and 2 are mandatory) & learn about those with the help of the Badge examiner

1. Present to others the Ten Principles of Dialogue

2. Attend a learning session on dialogue

3. Explain to others that all people are equal and unique

4. Demonstrate how personal actions can cause conflicts and misunderstanding

5. Identify and explore a local area with a problem caused by the lack of dialogue

6. Understand the demographic differences in your country

7. Be aware of global issues caused by the lack of dialogue between different nations

8. Explain the local impact of the harmful effects of conflict/ misunderstanding between people in the communities

9. Explain how our choice of action and responsibility as an individual, group, community and country can affect world peace

10. Understand how we can take actions to improve our impact on the society through dialogue

11. Demonstrate the different types and applications of dialogues, safe environments and techniques

12. Demonstrate how one can help others to be dialogical persons

13. Explain how some incidents can change the dialogue dynamic in the community from positive to negative

2. Do

Choose two activities & complete the activity with the help of the Badge examine

1. Participate in a national long- term dialogue-related project

2. Plan and execute a dialogue event (debate between different groups, problem-solving session, etc.)

3. Write a paper on dialogue and its importance in your local community and present it to others

4. Evaluate the impact of a dialogue project run by the Scouts in the community and present the outcomes

Awarding

With the Recommendation of relevant District officials, District Coordinator shall submit the specimen form to the National Head Quarters & National Scouts Go Solar Challenge coordinator will issue the Badge and the certificate. In the absence of District coordinator, ADC Program will submit the specimen form (report) to the NHQ.

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