SOS - What is Scouts of The World

The Scouts of the World Award (SWA) is an international award shared with over 50 National Scout Associations. In the Malaysia it’s only available to The Scouts Association of Malaysia’s members, with the aim of encouraging youth to develop and support society, locally or globally.

 

The award originates from the Millennium Declaration and UN Millennium Development Goals. It involves undertaking a Discovery to learn about a topic from one of the three themes; development, environment and peace. Candidates of this award will then help make changes and impact on a local community through a voluntary service in the Malaysia or abroad. Once SWA candidates have completed the award, they will have the opportunity to join the SWA Network with all other award holders from around the world.

 

SWA enables youth to develop a range of skills from project management to planning an international trip. Many of these will benefit the award’s candidates both inside and out of Scouting. The experience will show to the candidates of their abilities to implement change and work to improve the lives or environment of other people.