The toilets weren’t cleaned often enough, and those with special dietary needs were being ignored, says head of UK Scouts. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL – Concerns about cleanliness and food, not just the heat, drove the British contingent at the World Scout Jamboree to leave the event in South Korea, the head of UK Scouts said on Monday.
Britain sent the largest contingent to the jamboree, the first global scout gathering since the pandemic. Mr Matt Hyde, UK Scouts’ chief executive, told Reuters the group decided to withdraw its more than 4,000 scouts last Friday for their own safety. The American scouts followed. “We were concerned that the toilets weren’t being cleaned frequently enough. It wasn’t safe in there, and there was rubbish building up as well,” Mr Hyde said.
“There were concerns around food, and particularly those with dietary requirements that weren’t getting the food that they needed, so they were eating less,” he added.Mr Hyde was speaking as the jamboree’s organisers decided to evacuate thousands of participants, mostly teenagers, from the campsite in south-western county of Buan due to an
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