Rover Community Service Award

The Community Service Award is one of the Rover Proficiency Awards that a Rover can earn. The requirements are as follows:

1. Prepare and give a talk to a group of Scouts or other young people on the subject of service to the community.
2. Participate in a local community project of your own choice for a period of six months (or longer if desired).

Note: You can select from a myriad of projects, such as:

• extra lessons for school children;
• repair and/or maintenance of school buildings, clinics etc;
• conservation work such as reclaiming dongas, repairing fences, planting trees;
• construction of civil improvements in the village such as water drains, latrines, etc;
• acting as a secretary/treasurer/committee member of a local community project/students' society/club/Students' Christian Association etc;
• helping in an adult literacy/numeracy project;
• helping to run a youth group;
• working with handicapped people;
• helping the local church or religious group;
• assisting at a tuberculosis settlement;
• assisting the blood transfusion service;
• voluntary first aid work;
• Fire Brigade duties;