A
five day Second Nazhoen Camp in Samtse has successfully ended on 2nd
August 2017. A week long camp was organised by the Dzongkhag Scouts
Assosciation. Over 240 Nazhoen, classes ranging from 7 to 12, from 13 different
schools have participated for the camp. This is the second such camp organised
in the dzongkhag, and it caters to many creative, adventurous and educational
activities.
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| Lyonpo D.N Dhungyel with Scouts leaders |
The
camp was inaugurated on 28th July by Minister of Information and
Communication, Lyonpo D. N Dhungyel. The participants were energised and boosted
the curiosity of camp with the showering of words and wits by the Lyonpo.
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| Lyonpo with Nazhoen Scouts |
Lyonpo shared the history of scouting in Bhutan and its importance in the life of youths of Bhutanese. Lyonpo also enlightened the participants on the importance of scouting put in by our king.
Scouting
is one of the youth engaging activities. It was first started in 1907 at
Brownsea Island by the founder of scouting Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden
Powell of Gilwell. After eleven decades of its origination, about 28 millions
scouts are there in the world. It has lasting benefit to the youths of today. Scouting
is based on three important principle:- duty to god, duty to others and duty to
self. Through recreation, scouting achieves its purpose of helping young people
develop physically, intellectually, socially, and spiritually. Scouting is all
about building confidence and self-esteem, learning important life skills and
leadership skills, team building, outdoor adventure, education, and fun! It
nurture and mould youths to become a responsible citizens. The World Organisation
of Scout Movement (WOSM) is an international body that supports scouts across
the world.
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| Scouting is a fun! |
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| Variety show - scouts talent in action |
The
camp is an epitome of many life skills based activities. Some of the activities
that are designed for the camp are creative arts, Driglam Namzha (Bhutanese
etiquette), pioneering skills, flag protocol, songs & yells, and adventure
base. The camp furthermore helps in strengthening of friendship among the
scouts. Three nights of cultural showcase by the scouts depicts the talents
that our scouts posses. Their innocent expressions, talent, says lots that
“give a child a stage, they do miracles.” The camp provided an opportunity to
showcase their talent, build their confidences and times to reaffirm their
skills. The participants were also taken for site visit to Big Cola factory. A day long cleaning campaign was also organised around the Samtse town.
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| Cleaning campaign |
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| Learning creative arts! |
A
week long adventurous camp successfully comes to end on 2nd August.
The closing ceremony was graced by Dasho Dzongda. Dasho congratulated the
participants for successfully completing a week long Nazhoen Camp. Dasho urged
the participants to mobilise the knowledge gained from the camp in their day to
day life. “Scouts should be the ambassador of peace, happiness and success.
Scouts should not fail in disciplinary context” Dasho said. Dasho also
highlighted the youth related issues and common back-hold the Dzongkhag is
facing. The second Nazhoen camp made the heart of scouts bigger with the
numerous activities and knowledge. They are laden with the scouting skills and
driven into the deeper pool of scouting as a life long education!
The
camp was finally sum-up by singing farewell songs and prayers to meet in the
near future. The contented scouts depart for their respective school.
