PICTURE: Scouts from all over Europe gathered in Prague. In Stromovka, they started the Central European Jamboree iRADIO
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Prague Stromovka is full of tents. After 25 years, the Central European Jamboree returned to Prague. Scouts from many European countries and Israel gathered for it. Over a thousand young people between the ages of 14 and 17 arrived at the opening ceremony on Tuesday. “I’ve never been to any international event, so I wanted to experience what it’s like,” describes one of the participants.
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“Welcome to Prague. Welcome to the Czech Republic,” echoed from the stage at the ceremonial opening of the traditional scout meeting called the Central European Jamboree. He is returning to Prague after 25 years and the scouts pitched their tents in Prague’s Stromovka.
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The tribune in front of the Křižík fountain shook with enthusiastic stomping and cheering. When the flag bearers of each country came to the stage during the opening, the scouts responded to the greetings with a thunderous ovation.
“I’ve never been to any international event, so I wanted to experience what it’s like,” describes one of the participants.
“I would like to meet some scouts from other countries, so that we can write more, so that we can write letters,” adds the young girl scout.
Over the course of three days, the volunteers turned the site at the Prague Exhibition Center into a scout tent city, complete with cafes, a scouting museum and a teahouse.
“The interesting thing is that we are now standing on the road that is on one of the historical photos we have from 1931. This exact road is photographed there, and there are tents all around just like now,” describes Barbora Trojak, the spokeswoman for the scouting organization.
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At the turn of June and July 1931, more than 15,000 boy and girl scouts from all over Europe came to Prague. The ceremonial procession went to Prague Castle, where the President of the Republic, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, spoke to the young people. Eleven-year-old Vlasta Macková was also among them.
Hats went up
“The castle guards told the boys that they could shout and shout during the president’s speech, but not throw their hats. But when the president came, of course, according to Czech custom, all hats flew up and Mr. President had to do something to silence the ovation that was being heard by waving his hands,” recalled Macková for the Memory of the Nation project.
“Back then it was called Slavic Scout Camps, and we’ve been calling it the Central European Jamboree for quite some time, despite the fact that there are not only Central Europeans here, but we now have 23 countries here. So it’s much richer,” adds Barbora Trojak.
The implementation team worked on the program for a whole year. Two large mass field games in Stromovka are also prepared for the participants.
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“We have one big game this weekend. We call it a cooperative game. The game will focus on the participants cooperating in some way to beat the game’s system. So they won’t play against each other – or they did at the beginning – and at the end they will find out that it’s wrong and that they have to beat the system and not themselves,” one of the organizers, Jan Heřman.
“The purpose of the meeting is to leave richer. And that’s about contacts, new friends they’ll find here, and create some new relationships. About inspiration – you will try activities that they don’t do at home, that they don’t know and can bring something back to their unit. And also for the experience, because this can only be from the first meetings with a big scout family,” adds Barbora Trojak.
The ten-day program will also include a traditional march through Prague. This time, scouts will go from the Exhibition Center up to Letná – in costumes, with flags and banners with the names of the countries and cities where they come from.
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