Monday, November 10, 2014

Pamunugama boys back with Scouting

YMCA of Pamunugama has a fact to be proud being the first YMCA scout group in Sri Lanka as well as the first YMCA guides group. It has not being a month since the guides of Pamunugama conducted a three day camp in the YMCA grounds. This camp has motivated the boys in a grand way to get the YMCA Scout programme up and running again. 


18 young boys got together and conducted a scout camp under the guidance of Pamunugama leaders and staff on 8th and 9th. Since the boys were new to scouting, camp was conducted in a way that boys could learn basic things on scouting (conduct of a meeting, basic knots, outdoor cooking, etc) and enjoy the nature while living outside. 

Group was divided into 3 petrols and they were named as penguin, eagle and ostrich. These petrols will work in groups in the scout programme and their meetings will be held on Saturdays following the ongoing Children's Club meetings. During the camp petrols made their own tent and cooked for themselves which gave a lot of fun and team spirit to the new petrols. Camp-fire was held in the evening with number of items including comedy dramas and songs. 

Apart of the Pamunugama Leaders, Two trained guides, Lahiru Fernando who is a president scout and two scouts from the global friendship programme (Simon and Vigdis) also joined leaders. Pamunugama YMCA wish all the new scouts a happy, fruitful SCOUT life with the YMCA.
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Morning rally

















Learnt knots and pitched tents

















Beautiful Camp life





They were very disiplined
Camp lunch the best!
Learnt about lashing
Games!
Wishes from Petrol leaders for the Camp-fire

YMCA Wise President lighten-up the Campfire

















Performances!

















We made rotti for dinner 

















Cold morning around the camp-fire

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