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Scouting Association of the Republic (Poland)

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Związek Harcerstwa Rzeczypospolitej
The Scouting Association of The Republic of Poland
Girl Guide Organization
HeadquartersLeadership Office and Main Headquarters
LocationWarsaw
CountryPoland
Founded12 February 1989
Membership17 500
ChairmanKrzysztof Wójtowicz
Website
www.zhr.pl
 Scouting portal

Związek Harcerstwa Rzeczypospolitej (Scouting Association of the Republic, ZHR) is a Polish Scouting organization founded on 12 February 1989. At present, Związek Harcerstwa Rzeczypospolitej has over 17,500 members. At present, Związek Harcerstwa Rzeczypospolitej is an associate member of the Confederation of European Scouts.

History

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Girl Scouts from the ZHR

In 1956, after Stalin's and Bierut's death, the communist party youth movement ZMP OH was transformed and renamed to ZHP, the same name the Polish Scouting association had before World War II. After 1958 many pre-war instructors were removed from the new ZHP or marginalized, and the original oath, law, educational content and methods were changed. After Pope John Paul II's first pilgrimage to Poland in August 1980, some "non-conforming" instructors inside the ZHP created the Andrzej Małkowski Circle of Scout Instructors (KIHAM), with the objective of restoring the original Scout ideals. After the 7th Congress of ZHP at the beginning of 1981 rejected all their motions and the martial law was imposed in December 1981, they went underground. The underground movement came to light in the fall of 1988. After they were unsuccessful in reforming the ZHP their way, the ZHR was founded.[1]

Canada: ZHRwK

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In June 1996, a new branch of ZHR (Związek Harcerstwa Rzeczypospolitej w Kanadzie) was established in Canada by Elżbieta Lyszkiewicz with the stated goal of continuing the traditions of Polish scouting for the Polish diaspora. ZHRwK remains in operation, holding annual summer camps in the Madawaska Valley of Southern Ontario, an area known to the Polish diaspora in Canada as Kaszuby [2].

Organization

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The association is divided into Girl Guide and Boy Scout Organizations which involve:

  • Cub Scouts (7–10 years old)
  • Boy and Girl Scouts (11–14 years old)
  • Boy and Girl Wanderers (15–18 years old)
  • Senior Boy and Girl Scouts (over 18).

ZHR is divided into 13 Districts. Each District consists of a girl scout company and a boy scout company. The companies consists of troops which consist of squads.

The logo of the ZHR and the Boy Scout Organization is a white Fleur-de-Lis with the Polish Flag. The logo of the Girl Guide Organization is a modified ZHR logo on a blue trefoil.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ History of ZHR Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Związek Harcerstwa Rzeczypospolitej w Kanadzie". Związek Harcerstwa Rzeczypospolitej w Kanadzie. Retrieved 2025-02-11.
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