BUJUMBURA, February 21st (ABP) – The completion rate of activities marking Thinking Day for scouts and guides working in the Kamenge zone are estimated at 89%. This day will be celebrated on Sunday, February 23, 2025. This was announced on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, by the representative of the Sainte Olave group of Kamenge, Prince Mpawenimana, during an interview with a check by ABP.
Mpawenimana said that on February 22 of each year, scouts and guides around the world celebrate the birth of the founder of the scout and guide movement, Robert Baden Powell and his wife Olave Baden Powell, the world leader of guides. It is in that context that before the very celebration, the scout and guide movement organizes different activities that fall within the framework of “the daily good action”, principle/obligation of a scout and a guide.
Among the activities organized and carried out by the Sainte Olave group are the sanitation works of the gutters in the neighborhoods of the Kamenge zone, the planting of trees in the Gihosha zone, he added. These sanitation works were followed by competitive games for all the groups where the winners will receive gifts on the celebration of the Thinking Day.
Mpawenimana indicated that scouting is a movement that contributes to the education of young people, using a system of values based on the scout promise and law.
Indeed, through scouting “we create a better world where individuals flourish and play a constructive role in Burundian society. For this, we teach boys, we add training related to sexual health and training on the use of reusable sanitary towels for girls”, he explained.
Note that during this year, the scout and guide movement will celebrate the 168th anniversary of the birth of Baden Powell, and the 136th anniversary of the birth of Olave Baden Powell, his wife. During the “Thinking Day” ceremonies, the guides will meet at the public garden while the scouts will meet at the living museum of Bujumbura.