Shoqata e Guidave dhe Skoutëve në Shqipëri

Shoqata e Guidave dhe Skoutëve në Shqipëri

Association of Guides and Scouts in Albania
Country Albania
Founded 1998
Membership 350
Affiliation "working towards WAGGGS membership"

Shoqata e Guidave dhe Skoutëve në Shqipëri (ShGSSh, Association of Guides and Scouts in Albania) is one of Albania's Scouting and Guiding organizations. The coeducational organization was founded in 1998 and recognised by the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts as a country working towards membership.[1] The association serves about 350 members.[2]

The association's development is supported by the Belgian Guides Catholiques de Belgique and the Italian Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani.[1]

It is one of the WAGGGS affiliates which also accepts boys as youth members,[3] without being also a World Organization of the Scout Movement member.

The membership badge of Shoqata e Guidave dhe Scoutëve në Shqipëri incorporates the double-headed eagle of the arms of Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg featured on the emblem of Albania.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Shoqata e Guidave dhe Scoutëve në Shqipëri". Guides Catholiques du Belgique. Archived from the original on 2006-02-01. Retrieved 2007-01-06.
  2. ↑ "History". Guides Catholiques du Belgique. Archived from the original on 2005-12-18. Retrieved 2007-01-06.
  3. ↑ See for example the photos in the web site mentioned in the other notes


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