title: Scouting and Guiding in Samoa
text: # Scouting and Guiding in Samoa
  
  Scouting and Guiding in Samoa exists as separate organisations for Scouts and Guides
  
  ## Guiding
  
  Guiding is provided by the Samoa Girl Guides Association.
  
  ## Scouting
  
  For some years, Scouting was active in the Samoan Islands as an overseas branch of British Scouting, and then under Scouting New Zealand until at least January 1, 1962, when Samoa was released from New Zealand-administered United Nations trusteeship. Sosene Anesi, Senior is the Commissioner for the Samoa Scouts Association.
  
  The National Scout Organization of Samoa is not yet a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.
  
  ## Sources
  
  * ↑ "Scouting Elsewhere". World Organization of the Scout Movement. Archived from the original on 2007-03-12. Retrieved 2007-03-14.
  