Scouting and Guiding in Armenia
Scouting and Guiding Organizations in Armenia
The Scout and Guide movement in Armenia is served by
Hayastani Azgayin Skautakan Sharjum Kazmakerputiun, member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement
National Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts of Armenia, member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
Armenian General Benevolent Union
Because of Armenia's longstanding diaspora, there are several extranational Armenian Scout and Scout-like organizations. Expatriate Armenian Scout associations include the three traditional Armenian diaspora political groupings the Dashnaks, Hnachags and the Ramgavar:
Hai Ari (1929–1998); World Organization of the Scout Movement membership withdrawn in 1997 in favor of Hayastani Azgayin Skautakan Sharjum Kazmakerputiun
Homenetmen - connected to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnak Party)
Homenmen - connected to the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party
Armenian Young Men's Society-Hoyetchmen and Armenian Young Men's Society-Armenagan in Jerusalem - both connected to the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party (Ramgavar Party)
Armenian Young Men's Association in Nicosia
Most of the expatriate groups are also integrated in the national Scout or Guide organizations of their host countries.
History
The first Armenian Scouting groups were organized in 1910 in orphanages in Van, present day Turkey. and continued until 1922 when Scouting was officially banned and the Young Pioneers became the official state youth organization in Armenia. But even after 1922 some Scout troops were left for a short period in Armenia, now part of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.
Armenian Scouting in Turkey was active also after the Armenian genocide and even new troops were founded, but it caused them much misery. In 1920 there were 20 Armenian Scout troops in Constantinople with 750 Scouts and 50 Girl Scouts.
In Egypt the first Armenian Scout troops were founded in 1912 in Cairo and Alexandria.
In the years after World War I more Scout troops in the diaspora were founded i.e. within Homenetmen in Bulgaria and Romania.
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