With the increasing rate of crime in parts of the country, the Scout and Guide Fellowship of Ghana (SGF-GH) has called on authorities to revive youth scouting and guiding to combat the trend.
According to SGF-GH, there's a need to nurture the youth by educating and instilling in them moral values to become responsible and patriotic citizens.
The fellowship believes the resuscitation of the initiative will help groom responsible youth to drive sustainable national development.
Commissioner General, Dr. Edward Mettle Nunoo, explains with the advent of social media, several children are learning deviant behaviors that must be addressed head-on.
He observed that in the past, there was no gratuitous indiscipline in schools and communities compared to today.
Dr Nunoo spoke to JoyNews during blood donation exercise at Methodist Hospital at Ankaase in the Ashanti Region organsied by SGF-Gh.
The hospital's blood bank was stocked with 50 units.
Aside the blood exercise, the fellowship organizes clubs, camping and other activities to shape youth behaviors to become competent and independent.
Dr Nunoo is certain if the fellowship is well embraced by authorities, it will change the situation to re-shape the youth to reduce crime in the country.
"A scout is somebody who has morals; he or she can take care of himself and whatever property he has and that of the nation," he alludes.
Dr. Edward Mettle Nunoo calls on chiefs, clerics and the public to support the SGF-GH in its grooming initiative to develop the country.
Scouting was founded in the British Gold Coast Colony in 1911 and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1960.
The fellowship had 3,919 members as at 2011. The Chief Scout is President Akuffo-Addo.
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