Georgia
Sakartvelos Skauturi Modzraobis Organizatsia in Russian Организация Скаутского Движения Грузии "Скауты Грузии"; Georgian Organization of the Scout Movement), the national Scouting organization of Georgia, was founded in 1994, and became a member of the WOSM in 1997. The coeducational Sakartvelos Skauturi Modzraobis Organizatsia has 1,240 members as of 2008.
Scouting first came to what is now the Republic of Georgia around the 1920s, by way of the British business community in the western part of the country. There was no formalized Georgian Scouting within Georgia prior to the breakup of the former Soveiet Union, and within Georgia, Scouting did not exist during the period preceding the collapse of the Soviet Union.In 1992, students at Tblisi State University began to take an interest in Scouting. The Georgian Scouting Organization was officially founded in 1994 and become the 147th member of the World Scout Movement in January, 1998. Sak'art'velos Skauturi Modzraobis Organizatsia presently has 1,092 members, both boys and girls. Georgian Scouts have actively participated in several World Scouting events, Jamborees and Moots, including the 1995 World Jamboree in Holland (at the invitation of the World Scout Committee) and the Chile World Jamboree in 1998-99.
In the summer of 1996, two Georgian Scouts attended the National Jamboree in Denmark. Although they arrived late due to visa problems, they expressed gratitude for being able to attend, and took back with them a lot of information about Scouting programmes in Denmark.
The Scouts et Guides de France have been working with the Georgian Scouts to help with organization, training and programs. The Georgian Scouts maintain close ties with Scouts de France and other European and Eurasian Scout Associations. It is expected that the Georgian Scouts will grow rapidly through the schools