Scouts et Guides Pluralistes de Belgique explained

Type:	organization
Location:	Avenue de la Porte de Hal, 39 - 1060 Bruxelles
Country:	Belgium
Members:	4500
Chiefscouttitle:	Président
Chiefscout:	François Jacquemin
Website:	http://www.scoutspluralistes.be

Les Scouts et Guides Pluralistes de Belgique is a coeducational, nonreligious Scouting movement in French-speaking Belgium. This movement, known until 1992 as Fédération des Éclaireuses et Éclaireurs is the francophone branch after the split of the Boy-Scouts et Girl-Guides de Belgique (BSB-GGB) in 1966. Pluralist Scouts are officially recognized by the French Community in Wallonia-Brussels and are active members of the Council of the Conseil de la Jeunesse d’Expression française and the Confédération des Organisations de Jeunesse indépendantes et pluralistes (COJ).

Branches

From 5 to 21 years old, young people are divided into different branches:

• Castors (Beavers), from 5 to 8 years old
• Louveteaux (Cubs), 8 to 12 years old
• Guides et scouts (Guides and Scouts), 12 to 15 years old
• Pionniers (Pioneers), 15 to 18 years old
• Clan, from 18 to 21 years old

Uniform

The uniform of the pluralist Scouts is composed of a scarf with the colors of its unit and a gray shirt. Girls and boys wear the same uniform. For the bottom in general there is no set rule, but some troops insist on wearing shorts.

Logo

The logo of the Scouts et Guides Pluralistes de Belgique is explained as:^[1]

• a youth, action movement
  • The girl and boy are moving
  • The blocks are oblique, not symmetrical and placed in an open framework sketched in pencil.
• boys and girls together
  • The characters form adapted
  • It is outside their scope, one to the other
• Scouting
  • The word Scout in letters
  • The neckerchief is the Scout subject par excellence
• specificity Pluralistic
  • The word "pluralism"! (This specificity is underscored by the assertive green label below)
  • The four different colours

Notes and References

1. Web site: explication logo. Scouts et Guides Pluralistes de Belgique. 2 September 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110716065232/http://www.sgp.be/ress/logos/explication%20logo.pdf. 16 July 2011.