Ali al-Dandachi is a Syrian

Syrian people

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 who served as the vice president

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 of the Boy Scouts de Syrie

Boy Scouts de Syrie

Scouts of Syria is the national Scout and Guide organization of Syria. Scouting in Syria was founded in 1912; Guiding started in the 1950s. The coeducational association serves 9,358 members and is a member of both the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the World Association of Girl...

. Dandachi also served on the International Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement

World Organization of the Scout Movement

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 from 1951 to 1957. Dandachi had done a great deal to encourage Scouting

Scouting

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 throughout the Middle East

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, and during his term as a member of the International Committee, he visited practically every country in the region, leading to the establishment of an Arab Scout Bureau

WOSM-Arab Region

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In 1969, Dandachi was awarded the Bronze Wolf

Bronze Wolf

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, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.