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Rover scouting http://www.scout.org/roverscouts is a world-wide program for mostly older kids/young adults. The USA dropped this program in the early 1950's. We have so much talnet we kick out the door when they turn 21 we do not get access to again until and only if they have kids and they happen to be boys. So for the next 10-20 years, all those Scouts that went to college and had famiies are lost to us for an entire generation.
What better way to supplement our current program and actually utilize our alumni than set them up in the Rover Scout program. Here is a local (US) group that has revivied on a local level the Rover program. http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/king/personal/scouts/rovers/index.htm
We are fooling ourselves if we think all these kids that go through our program will return in later years. Young adults in college are still looking for adventure and service work. I work closely with a local Vietnamese Rover group who helped me start the whole family of scouting in a local Vietnamese church. They also wrote the national syllabus on Vietnamese scouting in the US. The Rover mission IS service.
Look it up. Research it then bring it back!
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