COERR organized scouting training in Ban Mae La camp and Ban Nupo camp in Tak Province for refugee children and youth’s physical, mental and spiritual development.

   The outdoor activities were organized to enable youth to build capacity of responsibility, self-confidence, self-reliance, reliability and readiness which would eventually lead to collaboration and unity.

   There was also first aid guide training for scouts to have basic knowledge about helping themselves and others who suffered or injured from accident.

   Such activities were aimed at raising social awareness in ethic, moral, and volunteer spirit. These qualities would lead a youth to grow up in human development.

   In addition, scouts also learned about factor that threats society like drug abuse which could harm body, family and community.

   The Scout training organized for Ban Nupho camp had 70 refugee youth: 44 female and 26 male attending during March 28-30, 2017. The Scout training for Ban Mae La camp had 64 young refugees: 38 female and 26 male attending during March 29-31, 2017.

Scout Training at Ban Nupo was organized during March 28-30 March, 2017. There were 70 young refugees attending .

   For Mae La camp, there are 8 learning bases for scouts to go through: 4 daytime bases and 4 nighttime bases, as follows:

Outdoor Daytime Activity

Base No. 1: Crawling underneath the Barb Wire

Base No. 2: Climbing the Wall

Base No. 3: Crossing River on Rope Bridge

Base No. 4: Fast-roping

Outdoor Night Activities:

Base No. 1: Touch:

Blindfold game for group building: Blindfolded group members touching and guessing the 5 objects in the box, then they discussed and concluded in telling the names of the objects.

Base No. 2: Listening

Listening carefully and identify various noise sources

Base No. 3: Smell

Smell and Identify 5 objects

Base No. 4: Watch

Watch, recognize and afterwards, write what they have seen

   Lessons learned from Outdoor Activities enable youth to practice skills in thinking, memorizing and, the most important thing, creating collaboration among group members.