MUNICH, Germany – Once every three years, Plast leaders from all over the world meet to elect a new board and executives, as well as to analyze the present state of the organization. From October 30 to November 3, the triennial Conference of Ukrainian Plast Organizations (CUPO) took place in a castle near Munich, Germany. Some 100 representatives from 10 countries approved changes to the constitution of world Plast and discussed Plast’s future.
After the end of World War II, most members of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization ended up in camps for displaced persons. One of the largest was in Mittenwald near Munich. A massive gathering of Ukrainian scouts took place there in 1947 – the spring camporee is known as “Sviato Vesny.” At that same location two years ago, Plast celebrated 105 years of its activity and the 70th anniversary of that historic event, which was the last big gathering before most Ukrainians in the DP camps moved to their new homes all over the world. In the meantime, Ukraine was under Soviet occupation, and that made any further Plast activity impossible in its homeland, where it began activity in 1911.