  
King of Sweden invited to Sri Lankan Scout Jamboree in next April Tuesday, 02 August 2011 15:55 The King of Sweden His Majesty Carl XVI Gustav ( Pronounce: Crowl 16 Gustofh )was today invited to visit Sri Lanka as a special guest of the centenary celebration of the Sri Lanka scouts and the Asia Pacific Scout Jamboree to be held in Dambulla next April The Leaders of Sri Lanka Scout contingent who attends the 22nd World Scout Jamboree currently in progress in Sweden presented the letter of Invitation by the Sri Lanka Scouts movement to His Majesty the King when he visited the Jamboree yesterday. The King who is also a scout and the President of the World Scout Foundation drew himself in his car to the Jamboree and met the leaders of World Scout contingents at the make shift reception centre at the Jamboree site. The King of Sweden is playing a leading role to educate the younger generation of their rights and obligations in the society through scout movements. The Royal family the King and Queen SIlvia spent the whole day meeting Scout leaders of various countries and stressed the importance of promoting more inputs to develop the scout movement to promote people to people contact. The Scout movement started with 24 young people 104 years ago by now grown as a world body with over 29 million members all over the world. Sri Lanka is to celebrate the centenary celebration of the Sri Lannka Scout movement in Dambula from 1-6 April 2012 where the Asia- Pacifi Region Jamboree will also be held. Around 7000 scouts are expected to take part from the regional countries this jamboree The Sri Lankan Contingent leader Attorney at Law Mr. Janaprith Fernando said that king gave patient hearings when they pointed out the relevancy of his present to the Asia Pacific Jamboree in Sri Lanka. He also said that the official invitation through diplomatic channel will be extended in due course.
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Picure shows dy leader of the Sri Lankan Scout contingent Prabath Kularathna presented the letter of invitation to King of Sweden to visit Sri Lanka for the centenary celebration of Sri Lanka scouts in April 2012 in Dambulla.
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Lions of Sri Lanka making int’l friends at Sweden Jamboree
Wednesday, 03 August 2011 15:21
The 122 Scouts from Sri Lanka clad in gray uniform with national flag have been praised and revered by all the scouts at the 22nd World Scout Jamboree in Sweden.
Scouts from various countries gathered to taste the food and culture of this island of paradise at this Jamboree, where 39000 scouts from 160 countries are camping in Rinkaby, Southern Sweden, 800 km away from Stockholm.
Though numerous activities and events going on are making it nearly impossible to experience all the camp has to offer in 10 short days, a sizeable number of scouts from many countries had shown interest in tasting the Sri Lankan food.
Picture
shows scout contingent from Italy and Germany enjoy the Sri Lankan food
hosted by Lankan scouts
Various nationals who visited the camp site daily get briefed about Sri Lanka at the Sri Lankan Centre
Camping
in Camp is one of the important activity of the Jampboree. Here the
Lankan contingent gets briefed from the Contingent leader Attorney at Law
Janaprith Fernando before they leave for camp in Norway
SOURCE www.news.lk
