COMUNIDADE DO ESCUTISMO LUSóFONO


The 'Comunidade do Escutismo Lusófono' (CEL, ''Community of Lusophone Scouting'') is the international community of the Scouting organizations in the Lusophone countries. Its members are:

Angola: Associação de Escuteiros de Angola

Brazil: União dos Escoteiros do Brasil

Cape Verde: Associação dos Escuteiros de Cabo Verde

East Timor: União Nacional dos Escuteiros de Timor Leste

Guinea-Bissau: Corpo Nacional de Escutas da Guiné-Bissau

Macau: ''Grupo de Escuteiros Lusófonos de Macau'', affiliated to ''Associação dos Escoteiros de Portugal''

Mozambique: Liga dos Escuteiros de Moçambique

Portugal: Federação Escotista de Portugal with the Associação dos Escoteiros de Portugal and the Corpo Nacional de Escutas - Escutismo Católico Português

São Tomé and Príncipe: Associação de Escuteiros de São Tomé e Príncipe
The CEL bases on the ''Carta do Escutismo Lusófono'' (''Charter of Lusophone Scouting''), formulated during the 18th World Scout Jamboree in Dronten, Netherlands on August 6 1995. The original signitary organizations were the ''Corpo Nacional de Escutas - Escutismo Católico Português'', the ''União dos Escoteiros do Brasil'', the ''Corpo Nacional de Escutas da Guiné-Bissau'' and the ''Associação de Escuteiros de São Tomé e Príncipe''.[1]
Main aims of the CEL are the cooperation between its members, the admission of non-recognised Lusophone Scouting organizations to World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) membership and the promotion of the Portuguese language as means of international communication.
Since 1995 the Scouting organizations of Angola, Cape Verde and Mozambique have become members of WOSM.

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1. Carta do Escutismo Lusófono


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