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Scouts stage and live imaginary worlds during their activities, and adapt their environments to it.

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It's through small groups and contact with nature that scouting educational methods take primarily place.

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The early stage of a 3 floor-high construction that is the home in the following week for this group of scouts.

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The basic landscapes of scout patrol campings usually include not only tents but a kitchen, as well as a table, a recycling area, lines for clothes, deposit for materials. All these temporary constructions are manually made with sisal rope, without any sort of nail.

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One of the male patrols of the original first scout group in Portugal, founded in 1912 in Lisbon. Here they host their 100th aniversary cerimony.

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Two scouts work on the construction of a portico to their own camping zone.

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Each scout is entitled to his own task within its patrol (the small unit of 5-10 people that you find in every scout group). Here we see the cookers in action. They prepare the meals and do the dishes.

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A finished construction of a group table.

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Sea scouts. They have boats and do their activities not only on land, where they camp and have their own constructions, but they are especialists in performing in the water since young age.

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Sea scouts. They have boats and do their activities not only on land, where they camp and have their own constructions, but they are especialists in performing in the water since young age.

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A pack of cub sea scouts. They are 6-10 years old. Like all cub scouts, they're mainly playing and starting to learn the basics through different kinds of games both in land and in water.

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Rover scouts (18-22 years old) play around in the atlantic beaches of Aveiro, in northern Portugal.

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Scouts stage and live imaginary worlds during their activities, and adapt their environments to it.

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An improvised kitchen

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A cub scout leader. Each pack and patrol has its own scream, created by the group itself as means of self-expression and identity among all other scouts.

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Scout promise cerimony within the original first scout group in Portugal, founded in 1912 in Lisbon. Here they host their 100th aniversary cerimony. In the promise each scout compromises to respect different duties to him/herself as well as to the other. After that, he/she receives the scarf as a symbol of that promise.

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Saint George is a patron of all scouts and for them he represents the victory of goodness over evil.

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Scouts also create imaginary activities and games in cities

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Scouts also create imaginary activities and games in cities

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Playing among the remainings of abandoned military equipment

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Playing among the remainings of abandoned military equipment

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A peculiar portico. Scouts stage and live imaginary worlds during their activities, and adapt their environments to it.

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When on activity, phone usage is usually limited for young scouts. They're usually given one specific time of the day to use it and talk to their parents.

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Scouts lay down in a free moment of leisure.

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After breakfast, scouts gather everything and everyone and prepare for a hike.

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A patrol of Explorer scouts (14-18 years old) on hike.

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The ancient and isolated village of Drave, in Portugal, has been abandoned because all of its residents either died or eventually moved out. Since then it has been legally "taken over" by rover scouts who use to all sort of activities, including restoring part of its buildinds. Every summer there is a volunteer campaing to do works on the actual village.

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Shower time.

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The cookers of a patrol of Explorer scouts (14-18 years old) start to prepare dinner.

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When the nigh falls, the warmth and magic of fire is usually replacing electric light. Even for cooking.

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When the nigh falls, the warmth and magic of fire is usually replacing electric light. Even for cooking.

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At night scouts sing around the fire, reflect about their current activities and rest down.

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The 100th anniversary of the original first scout group in Portugal, founded in 1912 in Lisbon.
