Lithuania
The beginning of Scouts' activities is considered to be the year 1907, when the founder Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell organized an experimental youth encampment of 20 boys in the Island of Brownsea in England. He formulated the principles of the practical youth education system – Scouting. Shortly after that the Scout Movement became popular in England and its colonies as well as in other countries. The first World Encampment of Scouts took place in London in 1920, and the International Scout Office was established in 1922. The Lithuanian Scout Association was registered at it on the 1st of January, 1924.
On the 1st of October, 1918, Petras Jurgėla-Jurgelevičius assembled the first scout segment of ten boys and two girls, and on the 1st of November he established the first coeducational Lithuanian Scouts' Association at the Vytautas the Great gymnasium school. This day is the birthday of Lithuanian Scouting. The Scout Movement spread quickly within Lithuania as there were approximately 3000 Scouts in the country in 1930. In 1933, the founder of Scouting Robert Baden-Powell with his wife and a group of 650 English Scouts visited the Scouts camping in Palanga town. On the 18th of July, 1940, the Lithuanian Scout Union was dissolved, many of its leaders emigrated and the other were arrested, jailed or exiled.
In 1989 in Vilnius a reconstituent assembly was held in Vilnius. It was decided to restore the Scout Organization, which later splinted up. On the 23rd of November, 1996, during the Unity meeting in Kaunas, most of Lithuanian Scouts united. The name of the organization is the Lithuanian Scouting; in 1997 it joined the World Organization of the Scout Movement