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Scouts from more than 150 countries camping together every four years. Contingent members and staff wrote home from Sweden, Japan, West Virginia and beyond.
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It’ll take a dedicated team of talented, motivated volunteers to welcome 45,000 Scouts and Scouters from 133 countries to the 2019 World Scout Jamboree. That’s where you come in. The 2019 World Scout Jamboree still needs a few Scouters with special skills to help make this once-in-a-generation event truly world class.
Flags flew proudly at the last World Scout Jamboree, held in 2015 in Japan. Updated May 22, 2019, with the latest numbers/countries. Four out of every five people at the 2019 World Scout Jamboree will be from a country that isn’t the United States.
Summer 2018 has just begun, but excitement continues to build for next summer’s premier Scouting event. The 2019 World Scout Jamboree is less than 400 days away, and it’s not too late to join this global Scouting celebration happening in our backyard.
From left: Hartley, Darcy and Mykal Phinney went on a Philmont trek together in July 2015. On May 12, 2012, Darcy Phinney’s life changed forever. Darcy and her entire family were headed home from a golf tournament when a teenager who was texting while driving hit their minivan head-on.
Most of us would be lucky to attend a single World Scout Jamboree. DeWitt Thompson attended four of them. His son, Jon Thompson, recently came across his father’s collection of incredible artifacts from the 1929, 1933 and 1937 World Scout Jamborees.
