Laudato Si’ Movement’s Advent Calendar! Let us pray together with our community for the weekly proposed challenges.

Directors Meeting 4/2023 November 11, 2023

Directors of the Foundation met on Saturday, November 11, 2023, at the residence of the Chairman, Dr. Rene R. Villanueva, for their 4th meeting in 2023.

The highlight of the meeting was the welcome of Ms. Claudia Groutsche as a Director, who has a track record in Scouting and served as a field executive with the Scout Association for three years and was involved in fundraising activities, membership expansion, special projects, and an active trainer of leaders, she was assigned to the finance sub-committee headed by chairman Roberto Harrison.

The other important point of the agenda was the review of the operations budget 2024 presented by the chairman of the finance sub-committee, Roberto Harrison.  After the presentation, questions and answers followed with the approval of the budget.  The finance and investment sub-committee will finalize the specific projects the Foundation will finance in the next few weeks for presentation at the Foundations meeting scheduled for December 16, 2023.

After the meeting, Dr. Villanueva thanked those present for attending.

The Belize Scout Foundation – Investing in a Better Belize

The 6th Corozal Methodist Scout Group actively participated in the Church Harvest held on Sunday, October 29, 2023, in Corozal Town.

The Scouts displayed their artistic talent, singing accompanied by guitar music.

On June 21, 2023, Mr. Edward M. (Billy) Musa Sr., Vice-Chairman of the Belize Scout Foundation, presented a guitar to the Group Scout Leader to support the Scout musical program.  Subsequently, the Scout Group also received three flutes for the group’s musical program.

Mrs. Gwendoline Monima is the Group Scout Leader and has the support of other trained leaders.

The Belize Scout Foundation is happy to be associated with the Methodist Scouts and is working towards donating more musical instruments to enhance their music program.

The Belize Scout Foundation – Investing in a better Belize

 

JOTI-JOTA 2023

This past weekend, October 20 – 22, 2023, Jamboree on the Air and Jamboree on the Internet (JOTA-JOTI) took place.

JOTA-JOTI, the world’s largest educational digital and radio Scout event promoting friendship and global citizenship, brings together more than 2 million Scouts members from over 174 countries, learning about communications technology, chats with WhatsApp groups, Messengers groups, video conferences and personal links with fellow Scouts.

Mr. Alejandro A. Tovar, a Radio aficionado, has been serving as an official administrator and operator for Scout Link since 2014, monitoring conversations in safe mode during the entire event and protecting the participants from any digital or verbal abuse.

The Belize Scout Foundation thanks Mr. Tovar for providing a safe environment for this worldwide event and congratulates all JOTA-JOTI 2023 participants.