SM Goh urges Singapore Scout Association to attract new generation

Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong has issued a challenge to the Singapore Scout Association to make scouting attractive to the new wired generation of Singaporeans.

The association was founded here 100 years ago.

At a celebration on Saturday evening, Mr Goh said the 11,000 scouts in Singapore was not a large number, compared to the 400,000 student population.

He has heard there is a gradual waning of interest in uniform groups, and an aversion to toughing it out under the sun.

However, he believed students can be persuaded if the Scouts update their activities.

He shared a story of how he once got lost for more than 24 hours during a hiking test for a First Class Badge at the belukar, or secondary forest at Bukit Timah Nature Reserve.

Source: Channel News Asia, Singapore

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