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Roverway 2012 - Suomen Partiolaiset Finlands Scouter ry
Tlnkatu 55, 00250 Helsinki, Finland Tel. (+358 9) 8865 1100 Fax
(+358 9) 8865 1199 [email protected] www.roverway.fi
The triennial highlight of Guiding and Scouting in Europe is
here again. It's time for Rovers and Rangersfrom across the
continent to gather in Finland for a memorable meeting of cultures.
Over 3500 partici-pants from over 40 countries have registered for
the event. Hundreds of volunteers have worked hardto deliver you a
truly international event with plenty of exciting opportunities. 60
action-packed four-daypaths around Finland, combined with the
five-day camp at the adventurous Evo campsite in the middle of
the forest, provide an excellent platform for an experience of a
lifetime.
Roverway is as much about learning as it is about having fun.
Ideally, by the end of the event everyoneshould have learned
something useful and had lots of fun with new friends. We, the
organizers, are try-ing to be as flexible and friendly as possible
so that the Roverway experience would be special, positiveand
memorable for each participant. But it's not only up to us:
everyone can do their share to contrib-
ute to the event. The more everyone gives of themselves, the
better the whole event will become.
As the Project Director, it is my pleasure to wish you most
welcome to enjoy Finnish summer with all ofus. This time the motto
is "see.feel.follow.". What will this mean for you - join us and
discover for your-
self!
Juho Toivola
Roverway 2012 Project Director
Participation at Roverway by numbers
In total, Roverway 2012 has 3518 participants!
That's 43 countries, 2538 16-22-year-olds,
427 patrol leaders, 245 ISTs,
83 HoCs, 124 members of the project organization,92 tribe
leaders, and 9 other participants.
If you are over 22 years old and still feel the burning need to
join this bunch, IST registrations can still be
done through your contingents. HoCs can send scanned
registration documents to [email protected].
Summer is here -so is Roverway!
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Picture: Anniina Salenius
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Roverway 2012 - Suomen Partiolaiset Finlands Scouter ry
Tlnkatu 55, 00250 Helsinki, Finland Tel. (+358 9) 8865 1100 Fax
(+358 9) 8865 1199 [email protected] www.roverway.fi
Cafs at Roverway
Roverway participants have a great opportunity to meet new
people and get to know each other in variouscafs. On campsite there
will be four different kinds of cafs with diverse themes. Holland
House in exoticGerman Black Tent will be quiet place during daytime
and turning to party palace in the evenings. In Rainbowcaf
participants get to be close to diverse human rights and sexuality
issues withopportunity to interview representatives of sexual
minorities. Adventure's caf willserve food with cosy atmosphere and
participants are surrounded with traveller
info and board games - and it will be open throughout the night.
Biggest party placewill however be night caf Hungry Hearts, where
participants have an opportunityto see live music and excellent
DJ's playing dancing music every night until sun ris-
es.
Perttu Helle
Roverway Caf Manager
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Roverway path W13 goes on a test drive
As spring rolls into summer, the buzz of action around Finland
is increasing as Tribe leaders make prepara-tions for their Paths
in July. In Kankaanp, an energetic crew took on the 49-
kilometer route from Kankaanp to Pori last weekend.
The Tribe Leaders of W13 Kankaanp arranged a test drive of the
handcars whichwill be used by the Tribe this summer. The sporty
bunch started on their way onSaturday afternoon and had planned to
stay overnight in Noormarkku. However,the thrill of travel was
apparently too intense and they drove their way through
49kilometers in 8 hours before arriving in Ruosniemi. "Everything
went even better
than we planned. This was an awesome trip", says Emilia
Paronen.
Watch a slideshow of the test drive.
Meetings after meetings = planning = results
Roverway Committee has made important decisions e.g. crisis
management guidelines and Event Rules.
Roverway Committee and the Tribe Leaders just finished their
weekend meeting together, the last one be-fore the event.
Participation was excellent, hype was high and one thing is sure
-the participants will be taken
care of by marvelous people and we are sure they'll have a great
time!
