Participants of the Central European Scout Jamboree passed through Prague
Parade of scouts as part of the international scout event Central European Jamboree in Prague (August 11, 2022)
| photo: Jakub Stadler,
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The participants in the parade carried flags, heraldic symbols or banners showing which country or region they had arrived in Prague from. On the way through Stromovka and Letná, the scouts sang, played musical instruments and greeted passers-by.
The fifteenth year of the Central European Jamboree started on August 2nd and will last until Friday. The participants found their facilities in the area of the Prague Exhibition Center, where a large tent camp was set up.
This year, the event for boy and girl scouts from fourteen to seventeen years of age is named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow, Iris, which, according to representatives of the organization, is meant to refer to the diversity of the world and its people and to celebrate scouting.
A team of 250 adult volunteers agreed to the event and the organization prepared a sports, cultural and educational program for them in Prague with the aim of getting to know new friends, culture, gastronomy, customs and education in other countries. Scouts also participate in volunteer activities in the capital cities.
The Central European Jamboree takes place in Prague after twenty-five years. At that time, the scouts camped at the Džbán reservoir in Prague 6. The last jamboree in the Czech Republic was held in 2014 in Doksy. A joint meeting of scouts from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary has been held regularly in one of these countries since 1997. They follow a similar gathering of scouts called Tábory slavských skátú, which took place in 1931. At that time, about fifteen thousand people camped in Stromovka .
Junák, the Czech Scout, is the largest educational organization for children and youth in the Czech Republic. Over the past fifteen years, the number of Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts in the country has increased by seventy-five percent to approximately seventy-three thousand. Scouting is the largest youth movement in the world. Sixty million people in 216 countries of the world apply for it.