Boy Scouts in spite of everything

The term Boy Scout Despite Everything (PTA) is used in the Boy Scout Movement to describe work with people with disabilities .

Form of work

The type of work is aimed at people with various forms of disability, mostly those with a physical disability or a cognitive disability . Depending on the severity of the impairment, the participants with disabilities are integrated into the usual groups ( packs , clans ) or combined in independent groups with specially trained group leaders.

history

In Switzerland , the first scout groups with disabled children created in 1924. Officially, the form of work in the Swiss Scout Association, however, was not introduced until the 1945th In 2005 there were 29 PTA groups in all four language regions in the Swiss Scout Movement . The designations of the form of work in the language regions are:

• Path despite everything - German-speaking Switzerland
• Scouts Malgré Tout - Romandie ( French )
• Scout ad ogni osto - Ticino ( Italian )
• Battasendas malgra tut - Graubünden ( Rhaeto-Romanic )

From May 14th to 16th, 2005 the first national Scout-Defiance-All-Whitsun Camp in Switzerland took place in Altdorf UR . Over 500 disabled and non-disabled scouts took part. In Austria , the work form Pathfinder Despite All had to be renamed in 1995 to Pathfinder Wie Alle (PWA) due to an abbreviation conflict with Post and Telekom Austria . In Germany, the form of work was introduced in the various associations after the Second World War.

literature

• Scouts - disabled people are there! ed. v. Conference of German-Language Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts Associations, Georgs-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1982
• Association of scouts and scouts (ed.): Scouting in spite of everything - scouting for all. Suggestions for scout work with people with disabilities (PDF; 1.3 MB) . Butzbach without a year (2007)
• Jörg Duda: Nix special - pathfinding with and without disabilities (PDF; 171 kB) , in: Helmut Schwalb, Georg Theunissen (ed.): Inclusion, participation and empowerment in work with the disabled . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-17-020890-2 , pp. 200-209
• Association of Christian Scouts and Scouts (ed.): So what? Disabled people are there . Kassel 1996
• Hans Voûte: Scouts in spite of everything. A general guide for disabled scout guides . Swiss Boy Scout Association, Bern 1948
• World Organization of the Scout Movement (Ed.): Guidelines on Scouting for People with Disabilities (PDF; 658 kB) . World Scout Bureau, Geneva 2008

Web links

• German Scouting Association Sankt Georg: Handicapped Work
• Scout Movement Switzerland : Scout Despite Everything

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The history of the Swiss Boy Scout Association (Bubenbund) 1910–1945 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 31, 2011. 
2. ↑ DPSG Freiburg: The History of Work with the Disabled ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 31, 2011. 
3. ↑ Disabled aid Othmarschen: For the pleasure of life! (PDF; 2.7 MB), accessed on March 31, 2011.