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[[Image:Gambia Scout Association membership badge.png|thumb|Membership badge of the Gambia Scout Association]] | [[Image:Gambia Scout Association membership badge.png|thumb|Membership badge of the Gambia Scout Association]] | ||
'''The Gambia Scout Association''', the national [[Scouting]] organization of | '''The Gambia Scout Association''', the national [[Scouting]] organization of Gambia, was founded in 1921, and became a member of the [[World Organization of the Scout Movement]] in 1984. The coeducational Gambia Scout Association has 18,422 members as of 2004. In 2007, David Hafner took over from Alieu Mamar Njie as Chief Commissioner. | ||
Special activities include community service projects such as tree planting. Scouts regularly participate in camping and hiking. Music is also a very important part of Scouting in The Gambia but because they don't have much money for instruments and sheet music, there is a waiting list to get into the Scout band and they learn all their music by ear. | Special activities include community service projects such as tree planting. Scouts regularly participate in camping and hiking. Music is also a very important part of Scouting in The Gambia but because they don't have much money for instruments and sheet music, there is a waiting list to get into the Scout band and they learn all their music by ear. | ||
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[[Category:Scouting and Guiding in the Gambia|Gambia Scout Association]] | [[Category:Scouting and Guiding in the Gambia|Gambia Scout Association]] | ||
[[Category:WOSM member organizations|Gambia Scout Association]] | [[Category:WOSM member organizations|Gambia Scout Association]] |