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SCOUTING IN ARMENIA

HAI ARI/ ASSOCIATION DES SCOUTS ARMENIENS

ASSOCIATION OF ARMENIAN SCOUTS IN EXILE

Scouting in Armenia began in the sometime around 1912. Scouting developed abroad among the refugees who had survived the genocide of 1915-1916 or those that had fled the new communist occupation. Scouting ceased to exist in Armenia.

In 1929, The World Scout Bureau recognized the Association of Armenian Scouts (HAI ARI) based in France, while the association did not have its own territorial base, it made an exception. This Scout Association was the first and only association to receive recognition as an exile Scout Association.

In 1989, communism collapsed and the independent Republic of Armenia emerged in 1991. The French based Association of Armenian Scouts in Exile, expressed their wish that Scouting in Armenia should become a part of the World Scouting Organization as soon as possible. It helped in the process of creating a national Scout Organization in Armenia.

In 1994, HASK (Armenian National Scout Movement) was officially founded. Hask has over 2,035 members, boys and girls, spread throughout the entire country. The French exile group expressed its desire to withdraw from World membership in order to allow Scouting in Armenia to become a member of the World Organization. In April 1997, the Armenian National Scout Movement was accepted into WOSM, becoming the 144th member.

Program Sections:

 Louveteaux ages 7 to 11

 Scouts ages 11 to 17

 Cadres ages 17 and older 

Scout Motto:

Mish badrast / Toujours pret Always ready

Scout Oath:

I swear by my honour to be faithful to God, to serve my native land and my nation, to help everyone and to act with consciousness and responsibility as a strong and real man always and to obey the Armenian Scout Law.

Scout Law:

A Scout's honour is to be trusted

A Scout is loyal

A Scout's duty is to be useful and to help others

A Scout is a friend to all and a brother to every other Scout

A Scout is courteous

A Scout is a friend to animals

A Scout obeys orders of his parents, patrol leaders or Scoutmaster without question

A Scout smiles and whistles under all difficulties

A Scout is thrifty

A Scout is clean in thought, word and deed

 

Information was obtained from the World Scouting News May 1997 issue.

If you have additional information, please send it to me by e-mail at:

n2zgu_g@pipeline.com

Last updated June 8, 1998