Guidisme et Scoutisme en Belgique

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Scouting organization

Organizational data
Name	Guidisme et Scoutisme en Belgique/ Gidsen- en Scoutsbeweging in België
Country	Belgium
Founded	1979
Membership	165,000
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Guidisme et Scoutisme en Belgique/Gidsen- en Scoutsbeweging in België (GSB, The Guides and Scouts Movement of Belgium) is the national Guiding and Scouting federation in Belgium. Scouting in Belgium started in 1911, and Guiding followed in 1915. The Belgian Scouts were among the charter members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) in 1922, and the Guides were one of the founding members of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) in 1928. The federation counts 88,237 Scouts (as of 2002) and 57,966 Guides (as of 2003).

1 Members
2 Emblems
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Members

The members of the federation are

FOS Open Scouting (FOS; interreligious, coeducational, Flemish)
Guides Catholiques de Belgique (GCB, Catholic Guides of Belgium; Roman Catholic, in most sections girls-only, mainly in the Walloon region and Brussels; only WAGGGS-member)
Les Scouts - Fédération Catholique des Scouts Baden-Powell de Belgique (FSC, Catholic Baden-Powell-Scout Federation of Belgium; Roman Catholic, partly coeducational, Walloon region and Brussels; only WOSM-member)
Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen (SGV, Scouts and Guides of Flanders; until 2006: Vlaams Verbond van Katholieke Scouts en Meisjesgidsen (Flemish Catholic Scout and Guide Association), VVKSM; Catholic, coeducational, Flemish)
Scouts et Guides Pluralistes de Belgique (SGP, Belgian Pluralist Scouts and Guides; interreligious, coeducational, Walloon)

There are also some German-speaking units in the German-speaking community of Belgium, mostly affiliated to the Walloon associations.

[edit] Emblems

FOS Open Scouting	Les Scouts - Fédération Catholique des Scouts Baden-Powell de Belgique	Guides Catholiques de Belgique	Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen - Guides
Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen - Scouts	Scouts et Guides Pluralistes de Belgique