Inside Vietnam
Until his death, one of the pioneers of the Vietnamese Scouting movement, Hoang Đạo Thuy (1900-February 14, 1994), a communist party member, had tried without success to establish a Communist Scouting association. In late 1991, Vu Xuan Hong, Secretary of the Movement of Marxist Youth, approached the Asia-Pacific Regional Office of the WOSM. The General Secretariat of the international movement did not follow up on this approach, since the organization cannot give allegiance to a political or national entity.
Some former leaders gathered together for a traditional Vietnamese Scouting Day meeting on May 31, 1993 in Hanoi. It was the first Scouting gathering since 1954 in northern Vietnam, in hopes of re-establishing the Vietnamese Scouting movement, but the result was not as expected at that point.
Today, although the Vietnamese government has not yet given official recognition, there are a lot of Scouting units already established and operating in Vietnam, mostly in southern Vietnam. There are approximately 50 Scout groups with one Scout Council in Ho Chi Minh City, one Scout District in Cần Thơ City, two Scout Districts in Da Nang City, one Scout District in Xuan Loc (Dong Nai) and many more Scout groups across southern Vietnam.
There are no reports of Scouting activities in northern Vietnam.
Read more about this topic: Vietnamese Scout Association
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