Camp Warden

What you need to do

This is a service badge and tasks should be completed individually and those assisting will only be doing for experience.

Corresponding badge for under 14.5 years: Camper.

All parts of this badge should be completed without imitations.

1. Pass or have passed the Camper badge.
2. Have camped 10 nights under canvas other than that required for the Camper badge.
3. Camp for a weekend at a site (other than the ones visited earlier) and report on the advantages and disadvantages of the sites and what could be done to improve these sites. (Note that Maldives has no permanent camp sites and your report should be written with this in mind.) The report should include matters related to soil, water, transport and the influence of the public of the island that you are camping on.
4. Show practical knowledge of camping standards in regard to gadgets, sanitation, drainage, cooking areas, food supplies, camp equipment (knives, axe, felling axe, water storage equipment, tents, flags, pioneering equipment, water sports equipment, toilets), planning of the camp site and the layout of the sites, and how to store camping equipment in local conditions without a Scout Den (Scout store room). Also indicate how records of such equipment are maintained and how repairs could be made to camping equipment.
5. Make a tent, ground sheet, rucksack, knife, kathivalhi, froa, mallet, frying pan, or similar article of camping equipment, make a diagram of your product and write how you went about producing the article.
6. Have worked at least for one camp with the troop or patrol in planning the camp. (To prove this the Group Scout Leader should testify, and a copy of the camp permit given by the Association for the specified camp should be attached to the notes that are prepared for the badge.)

7. Demonstrate the following:

   1. Use of charcoal for cooking
   2. Building a Scout camp fire
   3. Pitching a patrol tent and folding it with due regard to storage
   4. Drying wet clothes and bedding in camp conditions (so that this is not repeated after the camp is over)
   5. Fire prevention and precautions that have to be taken in camp
   6. Care of food and storage
   7. Care of drinking water
   8. Care of cooking stoves and kitchen equipment and personal gear
   9. Disposal of waste
   10. Construction of latrines and how to remove and seal the area after camp
   11. Equip a camp first aid box and give reasons for your selection of medicines for a patrol camp of 7 days

   12. Demonstrate how to use the following and how to care for it (protection and storage):

       • Felling axe
       • Kathi valhi
       • Hand saw
       • Pulleys
       • Hammer
       • Mallet
       • Mamotee
       • Spade
       • Crowbar
       • Gas cooker
       • Kerosene cooker
       • Generators
       • Rakes
       • Hammers of 7 lbs
8. Discuss with the examiner how you would want to see a permanent camp site in Maldives and the facilities that will be made available in this site. Support your discussion with a drawing or a diagram.