2 Cebu scouts join World Jamboree

Senior crew leader Rodrigo Abellanosa and scout department head Vince Yu, both Boy Scout leaders of Sacred Heart School-Ateneo de Cebu, are in Sweden to represent the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) Cebu Council in the Philippine contingent to the 22nd World Scout Jamboree from July 27 to Aug. 8.

Vice President Jejomar Binay, also BSP national president, will head the 20-strong scout Philippine contingent.

Around 38,000 scouts from 150 countries will join the World Scout Jamboree that happens once in four years.

Considered as the Olympics of scouting, the World Scout Jamboree in Rinkaby, Sweden, has “Simply Scouting” as its theme coupled with “Creating a Better World” as its theme song.

The jamboree delegates will meet new friends, get to know each other’s cultures and participate in the camp’s activities from environmental experiments to an amusement park.

Participants will also introduce their cultures in a special cultural festival.

Activities are creative and experimental, and allow participants to think and reflect on how the world works.

“At the World Scout Jamboree young people pass geographical, cultural and religious boundaries. We hope that scouts will feel inspired when they go home,” said Marie Reinicke, the head of the event.

Abellanosa, a first honor sophomore student, and Yu, a graduating student, are under the tutelage of scoutmaster Leo Glenn Lao of the Ateneo de Cebu scouting unit.