In 2001 the late patriarch Joseph Hanoush asked Antoine Moussally to resume the scout movement at St. Catherine. At the start of August he announced a Cubs troop and called back everyone who had served in the first group; Ingy Magdy, then a Beavers leader at Qalb Yasouaa, was assigned to lead it. The first meeting was on Friday 17 August 2001, with six cubs.

Antoine Moussally led the group again through the transitional phase after Samy handed over. He was a considerable addition to the structure of the units and to their internal systems.

Ingy Magdy led the first troop of the restarted group from its first meeting on 17 August 2001. It took every child from six to sixteen, boys and girls together, because the point of that first year was to gather a big enough seed for a group. In January 2003 the youngest were separated out into a Beavers troop, and she went with them.

In January 2003 the Beavers were separated from the Cubs into a unit of their own under Ingy Magdy — at first meeting straight after the Cubs, then fully independent from the third season. It began with fifteen beavers. The troop started to falter around her marriage in 2006.

Raghda Ibrahim had been a Girl Guide in the 1997 group and was the first to volunteer for the new one. She was fetched out of a patrol-leaders’ camp at El Baragil to be at the very first meeting, and was accepted as assistant to Ingy Magdy.

Raghda Ibrahim took the Brownies when Amira Shaher withdrew, and held them for eight seasons — the whole of the troop’s childhood. She stepped down while preparing for her marriage, and Justine Maher took over.

Rodeina Ibrahim joined the Cubs’ leaders in September 2001, alongside her sister Raghda. She served her first two years as a helper and learner on the group’s single troop, then held the Cubs through to 2008 — the longest run any leader has had with one troop. She went on helping the group leader Ramy Sameh, without a post of her own, until 2015.

The Girl Guides troop was opened for the ninth season, with seven guides who had outgrown the Brownies. The point was to stop what had happened to the first generation of cubs — older members leaving because there was no troop for their age. The first season’s theme was “knowing myself” as an Egyptian Christian girl. Rodeina withdrew when her Master’s took over.

The Brownies were separated from the Cubs at the start of the third season under Amira Shaher — eleven brownies, in white blouses, because there was no scout shirt yet. She withdrew after a short while and Raghda Ibrahim took the troop on.

When Raghda Ibrahim travelled in the summer of 2004, Lydia Magdy was brought in to hold the Brownies.

A Boy Scouts troop was opened at the start of the fifth season under Ramy Fouad, helped by Rover Nader Elia. The members did not hold, and the troop closed in under a month. The scouts would have to wait another year.

Dina Essam joined the Brownies for the seventh season. The troop’s own log calls it one of its most successful — two leaders, one bringing the fun and one the facts.

Ramez Refaat was the first official group scout leader for St. Catherine. He worked with a council of leaders from 2006; the Boy Scout troop opened during his tenure, along with the group’s first group camp and its first storage room. He left when work took him abroad.

The Boy Scouts troop opened on 13 October 2006 under Ramy Sameh, with seven scouts — most of them the older cubs, who had been leaving because there was nowhere for them to go. He had been a leader in the group since 2005.

After seven years with the Boy Scouts, Ramy Sameh took the group itself. His years are remembered for his humour and his steady support to every troop — and for the sharpest rise the group has had in member numbers. He was awarded the certificate and badge of St. Anthony for the inter-group football tournament he started, which has run every season since.

Justine Maher took the Brownies when Raghda Ibrahim stepped down in the tenth season. She was formally appointed a leader the season before, and led the group’s six-member party to the international camp in Turkey.

Mina Maged had been one of the first generation of cubs himself. He joined the troop’s leaders in 2007 and took it in the eighth season — a historian, so it was a pharaonic season — before work took him abroad.

Miriam Kirollos joined the Girl Guides’ leaders in the troop’s first season, and stayed until she travelled in January 2010.

Nermine Sameh took the Cubs in September 2009, when Mina Maged had to travel for work — eleven cubs at the time. She started the bicycle marathon that every Abou El Hole cub troop now runs, and was awarded the certificate and badge of St. Anthony for it.

Chantal Maher took the Girl Guides when Rodeina Ibrahim had to withdraw, and held them through the thin season that followed — some meetings ran with one or two guides — and through the revolution, when the troop went out to clean the streets around Triumph square.

Nadim Hani was appointed to the Cubs for the eleventh season with one stated aim: more members. The troop brought their friends, ran an open day, and went from a handful to eighteen.

Samy Joseph Boulos took the reins from Ramez Refaat for a brief period, strengthening the units’ positions and their numbers, before a change of residency ended his tenure.

Peter Amin Fahmy leads the group today, focusing on strategic planning, team building and sustainable growth, while keeping the group engaged in partnership activities.