Thinking Day

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The Thinking Day on February 22 is a day of remembrance of the Scout Movement , at the global to the community of Scouts and the joint birthday of Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of the Scout Movement, and his wife Olave , is reminiscent, an influential leader of the Scouts movement. Originally an event of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and its member associations, the Thinking Day is now also celebrated by some member organizations of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM); other WOSM members celebrate Founder's Day on the same day with a similar background, but without any reference to Olave Baden-Powell.

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On this day, many groups gather for charitable purposes or for the Scout Movement. In some Scout associations to wear that day publicly his scouts gap to profess in this way publicly Scouting.

Thinking Day on the Air and Thinking Day on the Internet , JOTA and JOTI events of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts , also take place on February 22nd each year . In Canada this event is called GOTA (Guides on the Air).

One tradition is sending postcards. The joint postcard campaign of various European associations has tried to follow up since 2009. The World Association of Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) prepares a topic for the World Thinking Day every year with program suggestions and badges. WAGGGS also has the World Thinking Day Fund, which supports the work of girl scouts worldwide. Donations are being collected for this fund in many countries, especially around the Thinking Day.

Scouting 100

On February 22nd, 2007, due to the 100th anniversary of the World Scout Movement, many large public projects by scout groups took place in various cities. The individual groups of the respective associations were called upon to celebrate the anniversary with cross-association activities. Further events for the anniversary were the worldwide renewal of the scout promise on August 1, 2007 at sunrise (Scouting's Sunrise) and a congress of the various associations in Berlin in September 2007. At the same time, the then Federal President Horst Köhler , the patron of the anniversary campaign on the occasion of the Scouting 100 , invited , to an anniversary camp in the garden of Schloss Bellevue in Berlin.

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