The Central Florida Council, Boy Scouts of America is celebrating 100 years of Scouting with an International Service Project called "Scouting for Change". It is a coin drive that will give the gift of education by building schools in Africa. More than 40,000 Scouts and Scouting Volunteers will be collecting quarters to build schools in Nairobi, Kenya. By doing this simple task, we will raise over $100, 000 to build the schools in Kenya, where Scouting's Founder Lord Robert Baden-Powell envisioned the ideals and fundamentals of the scouting program.

Why Kenya? With having only once chance to celebrate our 100th Anniversary, we chose to tend to our roots and what better way to do that then the gift of education.

Lord Robert Baden-Powell was a highly decorated British Military Officer, after his tour of duty in Africa during the Boer Wars, he returned to the United Kingdom and wrote "The Aides to Scouting", which is the foundation for today's scouting program. Proceeds from the Scouting for "Change" coin drive will be used to expand and build schools for the youth near Nairobi, Kenya which is where Baden-Powell is buried.

This project will give our Scouts a great sense of international "Good Will" and allows us to share our motto "Be Prepared" with the students of Kenya. The campaign will run December 1, 2009 until February 5, 2010.

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