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Scientology: Helping Haitian First Responders Restore Peace of Mind to Survivors

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In the final two sessions of a five-part seminar in the town of Jérémie, Scientology Volunteer Ministers train firefighters, Haitian Red Cross, Haitian National Police and other community leaders to help restore peace of mind to those suffering from the frequent disasters that plague this Caribbean nation.

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updated: Sep 9, 2021

JÉRÉMIE, Haiti, September 9, 2021 (Newswire.com)
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Volunteer Ministers of the Scientology Haiti Disaster Response Team completed a five-day seminar Tuesday, September 7, that trained 97 first responders and community leaders to deliver Scientology assists—techniques developed by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard that address the emotional and spiritual effects of stress and trauma.

Arranged by former Jérémie mayor Yvon Janvier and cosponsored by GRADE: Groupe d’Appui au Développement et à la Démocratie (Support for Development and Democracy Group), and Fondation Communautaire Haïtienne (Haitian Community Foundation), Haitian National Police officers, the Haitian Red Cross, firefighters and community leaders also learned search and rescue and first aid skills.

Disasters are a tragic fact of life in Haiti. Two days after the 7.2 magnitude earthquake ravaged the island’s southwestern peninsula leaving thousands homeless, Tropical Storm Grace lashed the region with up to 15 inches of rain and 35-mile-per-hour winds. And the country was already reeling from the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse a month before.

Janvier told Scientology Volunteer Ministers headquarters in Los Angeles that as dire as the physical needs of his people are, he is even more concerned about their state of mind. He wanted to train a corps of first responders and local leaders in Scientology assists to bolster courage and restore optimism in his community. And the seminar did just that.

The final two days of the seminar concentrated on information contained in two Scientology Tools for Life courses: “Assists for Illnesses and Injuries,” and “Solutions for a Dangerous Environment.” Both are available free of charge on the Scientology website and the Volunteer Ministers website and some of those attending logged on to the courses through their phones to watch videos that introduce the subject and study the course materials presenting Mr. Hubbard’s technology in written form.

“I would like to thank you for this initiative,” said Belizaire, a local community leader. “I really enriched my knowledge and learned many things that will be useful to my community. I hope this will not be the last seminar for our town.”

“This has helped many people discover that life can change,” said Mariela, a member of the nonprofit Women’s Movement for the Development of Grand Anse. “And every person who discovers this technology is an opportunity for this community. May it go on and on.”

“From these days training with the Volunteer Ministers and Los Topos Azteca, I added so much to my knowledge as a police officer,” said an officer from the Haitian National Police. “I will share what I learned with my colleagues, my family and those around me. My heartfelt thanks.”

The Church of Scientology Volunteer Ministers program is a religious social service created in the mid-1970s by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard. A Scientology Volunteer Ministers Disaster Response team spent many months in Haiti to help the country recover from the 2010 earthquake and to train and establish Volunteer Ministers groups throughout the island that have continued to serve their communities ever since.

A Volunteer Minister’s mandate is to be “a person who helps his fellow man on a volunteer basis by restoring truth and spiritual values to the lives of others.” Their creed: “A Volunteer Minister does not shut his eyes to the pain, evil and injustice of existence. Rather, he is trained to handle these things and help others achieve relief from them and new personal strength as well.”

Their motto is, no matter the circumstances, “Something can be done about it.”

For more information, visit the Scientology Newsroom.

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Source: Church of Scientology International

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September 9, 2021
Scientology Haiti Disaster Response Volunteers Team Up With Local Clinic to Provide Help

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Nurses, who arrived in Les Cayes from Carrefour last weekend, are caring for injured survivors of the August 14 Haiti earthquake at a clinic in Camp-Perrin, a commune in the Les Cayes Arrondissement.

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updated: Sep 2, 2021

LES CAYES, Haiti, September 2, 2021 (Newswire.com)
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Ten nurses, wearing the bright-yellow T-shirts of the Scientology Volunteer Minister, helped set up a mobile clinic in Camp-Perrin, Haiti, and immediately started triaging and caring for patients.

Camp-Perrin is one of the communities hardest hit by the August 14 earthquake that left an estimated 12,000 injured and destroyed more than 52,000 homes. With so many in need of care and so few resources, the mobile clinic will perform a vital function.

The nurses, trained Scientology Volunteer Ministers, were part of a group of two dozen who traveled to Les Cayes last weekend to join the disaster response team.

In addition to their medical skills, they are also experienced in the administration of Scientology assists—techniques developed by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard covered in the Assists for Illnesses and Injuries Course on the Volunteer Ministers and Scientology websites. By addressing the emotional and spiritual factors in stress and trauma, assists can speed healing and ease discomfort.

The Scientology Haiti Disaster Response Team is also providing Scientology assists at the OFATMA (Occupational Accidents, Illness and Maternity) Hospital in Les Cayes which, like other hospitals, is struggling to keep up with those in need of attention and care. And they are training a team of 100 rescue workers on assists and other Volunteer Ministers technology such as communication and organizational skills to help them cope with the current crisis.

In creating the program in the mid-1970s, Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote that a Volunteer Minister “helps his fellow man on a volunteer basis by restoring truth and spiritual values to the lives of others. … A Volunteer Minister does not shut his eyes to the pain, evil and injustice of existence. Rather, he is trained to handle these things and help others achieve relief from them and new personal strength as well.”

The Founder of the Scientology religion is L. Ron Hubbard and Mr. David Miscavige is the religion’s ecclesiastical leader.

For more information, visit the Volunteer Ministers website or the Scientology Newsroom.

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September 2, 2021
Scientology Volunteers Train Haiti Nonprofits on How to Help Traumatized Victims

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With thousands injured and hundreds of thousands homeless after the 7.2 magnitude Haiti earthquake, first responders see Scientology assists as the key to providing needed help.

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updated: Aug 28, 2021

LES CAYES, Haiti, August 28, 2021 (Newswire.com)
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At 7.2 magnitude, the earthquake that struck Haiti on August 14 was twice as powerful as the one that hit the country in 2010. And the destruction is massive.

Scientology Volunteer Ministers in Carrefour and Les Cayes are working with nonprofits and first responders to train them on how to address the emotional and spiritual factors in the stress and trauma of those they are trying to help. They do this with seminars on Scientology assists—techniques developed for this purpose by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard.

In Les Cayes, close to the epicenter of the earthquake, Scientology Volunteer Ministers provided a seminar this week to a team of first responders who knew they needed a way to address more than the physical needs of the victims they help. “The session on illnesses and injuries assist procedures will help us save more lives,” said one of the rescue group members. And the leader of the group wants to continue training his team on all 19 chapters of the Scientology Handbook, the textbook for training a Volunteer Minister.

Stevenson, who leads the team of Volunteer Ministers serving in Les Cayes, was devastated by the January 2010 earthquake. Some 300,000 were dead. “I thought my life was over,” he says. But he happened to meet two Volunteer Ministers and they invited him to a seminar, which restored his hope and revived his will to live. Active as a Scientology Volunteer Minister ever since, he shares this technology with others, confident that by getting it into broad use, “it will help save my country.”

On August 26, while visiting communities heavily affected by the 14 August quake, U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power, while pledging funding, also said, “Perhaps the most important lesson (from 2010) is that no development agency and no army or diplomatic corps can just import a perfect humanitarian response from afar. You need local expertise and local leadership to reach communities in need.”

It is just this kind of grassroots disaster response that Haitian Scientology Volunteer Ministers have provided for more than a decade. And it is seeing the difference the technology makes in others’ lives that inspires them to set aside their own concerns and help in the aftermath of this disaster.

In creating the program in the mid-1970s, Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote that a Volunteer Minister “helps his fellow man on a volunteer basis by restoring truth and spiritual values to the lives of others. …A Volunteer Minister does not shut his eyes to the pain, evil and injustice of existence. Rather, he is trained to handle these things and help others achieve relief from them and new personal strength as well.”

For more information, visit the Scientology Newsroom.

CONTACT:
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Church of Scientology International
(323) 960-3500
mediarelations@churchofscientology.net

Source: Church of Scientology International

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August 28, 2021