This year, 28 million young Scouts in 216 countries will renew their Scouting promise at dawn to remember that day on Brownsea Island. The "Scouting's Sunrise" event will be held as part of the Scout Association's 2007 centenary celebrations (see boxout, p15).
Today, the global reach of the Scout movement is huge. Only six countries do not currently have a Scout organisation - North Korea, Cuba, China, Laos, Myanmar and Andorra - while 40,000 Scouts from across the globe are expected to descend on the association's 110-acre Gilwell Park headquarters in Chingford, Essex, for the 21st World Scout Jamboree at the end of July.
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