Photos :Trip to Nepal (Japan-PaxIV Hyper)

photo by :Youhei KATOH

Scout Members featured in this year New Year Honours List for the work for UK and International Scouting.?

A father and son were both awarded MBEs for their services to Scouting and for setting up and running the Friendship Clinic in Nepal. Father Peter Shore, from Bristol, founded the Friendship Clinic charity in 1996 to help provide clean water and medical care for residents of Meghauli in Nepal. He and his wife decided to set up the charity there after they got lost backpacking in a jungle in 1987 and were rescued by an English-speaking local Scout. He said: it feels very nice to have been honoured like this. I have known about it for some time, but it is still very exciting.? Peter son Kevin was awarded the MBE, both for the Friendship Clinic Nepal and for his long and distinguished medical career in the Royal Navy.Kevin was a Sea Scout Leader in Plymouth, but is now land-based, and is taking on the role of Group Scout Leader. Kevin, has also just completed the world toughest marathon on Everest. ( collected by sunil)