About 600 people are members of the Scout movement in Bulgaria
Didi Todorova and Zhivko Zhechev
Photo: Plamena Bachiyska
In 1907, the Scout Movement was founded in England. February 22 has been declared World Scout Day. In Bulgaria the movement was established in 1911. 40 million people around the world are members of the Scout Movement. In 1939 Bulgaria was one of the founding countries of the World Scout Organization based in Geneva.
“At the moment of the action of the scout movement in Bulgaria – organizations of the Bulgarian scouts, we number about 600 people. These are children from 7 to over 80 years. We are all children “, Zhivko Zhechev from the organization of the Bulgarian scouts told BNR.
Zhivko Zhechev has been with the scouts for 12 years. In the beginning, start as a volunteer in the organization. He founded a scout club in his hometown of Shabla. After years and experience he became part of the leadership of the Organization, and almost 2 years ago he was even briefly Chairman of the Board of the Association.
He has been developing his own small business for two years – acting as a professional private house manager. Supplement your income and time by practicing another love of yours – books, by selling books in a small bookstore.
Make sure they are self-contained.
“To be able to cope with extreme situations, to be useful to themselves and to help others“, Added in the program” Night Horizon “Didi Todorova from the Organization of Bulgarian Scouts.
Didi Todorova is one of the young leaders fascinated by the Scout idea back in 1990. She is a primary school teacher at the 18th William Gladstone High School in Sofia. Ms. Todorova spread the scout idea among elementary school students and organized the first groups of “wolves” and “bees” – groups of up to 10 boys or girls aged 7 to 10 years.
Boris Ivanov, a fourth-year dental student, has been a scout since 2011, when he was 11 years old:
“It charges you in a unique and positive way, with a passion for adventure, to overcome the world, to show that you can do much more than you are.”
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