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World Friendship

Make friends across borders: write to a pen friend, learn the flags of SAARC countries, and find out about Scouting around the world.

  • Syllabus page 23

What you need to do

Choose any THREE from the following list:

  1. Be a pen friend to a child from another country and write or send tapes to him/her for at least three months.
  2. Recognize the flags from ten countries in the world, SIX of which must be from SAARC countries.
  3. Collect at least 3 coins, stamps and postcards from 3 different countries in the SAARC region and discuss with the examiner what you know about the SAARC countries.

  4. In a scrap book about one of your neighbouring countries:

    1. Show on a map where that country is in relation to the Maldives.
    2. Draw and colour that country's flag.
    3. Include details of the people of the country which you have chosen, e.g. the type of houses they live in, the food they eat and the clothes they wear.
    4. Find out whether or not scouting exists in the country you have chosen.

  5. Mark on a world map the following:

    1. The location of the United Nations Headquarters.
    2. Tell something of the United Nations Organization.
    3. The location of at least six World Scout Jamborees.
    4. The location of at least six Asia Pacific Scout Jamborees.