Final touches are being made in the preparations for the 6th ASEAN Scout Jamboree slated to take place from Nov. 27 to Dec. 4 at the spruced-up Energy Park (E-Park) at Barangay Apokon in Tagum City.
The jamboree is expected to draw some 25,000 delegates from all parts of the Philippines with foreign participants from even non-ASEAN member countries like India, Netherlands, Nepal and others.
Tagum City Mayor Allan Rellon said that scout leaders from ASEAN countries are expected to arrive earlier in the city, this coming Nov. 23 to be able to convene on the next days for the final meetings before the grand start of the jamboree on Nov. 27.
“But members of the National Management Team of the jamboree are expected to arrive on Nov. 17 and join in the blessing of all new facilities in the E-Park on the next day, Nov. 18,” he said.
He said that among delegations the scouters from Luzon have mostly booked their flights on Nov. 23 and thus on that day they start to have their tents fixed on the E-Park’s sprawling lawns and on the vacant grounds of the neighboring University of Southeastern Philippines and Trade School.
He said that per approved program President Rodrigo Duterte will grace the historic jamboree.- Cha Monforte, Correspondent
