Kenya Scout leaders use Scientology Volunteer Ministers methods to help in the wake of Uganda mudslides

Kenya Scouts who trained as Scientology Volunteer Ministers helped in the search and rescue action following mudslides in the Bududa District of Uganda.

UGANDA—A team of Kenya Scouts who are also Scientology Volunteer Ministers traveled to Uganda last month when massive mudslides killed 94 and displaced 30,000 from their homes. Led by Elly Rajab, 22, the Scouts joined Uganda Army rescue workers in their search for 500 people missing in the flood-affected area.

Arriving in Uganda from Nairobi, Rajab and his team learned from survivors in IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camps and from the Red Cross and the Uganda Army where their help was most needed. With hundreds still missing, the first priority was search and rescue—work that had to be done by hand with shovels and picks, as use of heavy machinery could trigger further landslides on the heavily saturated ground.

The Volunteer Ministers also distributed food and supplies and provided simple but powerful Scientology techniques, called “assists,” developed by L. Ron Hubbard to help people in the camps overcome the disorientation and trauma of losing their homes, families and possessions.

In Nairobi, the previous year Rajab had trained as a Scientology Volunteer Minister to gain practical skills that he and his fellow Scout leaders could use to help the people of their country. After completing free online training in communication skills, conflict resolution, organizational basics and other subjects offered at www.volunteerministers.org, in fall 2009 Rajab arranged for Kenya Scout leaders from Mombasa, Marsabit, Kisumu and Nakuru to join him in Nairobi for a series of seminars provided by a Volunteer Minister sent from United States to Kenya. Since the seminars, the Scout leaders have in turn trained hundreds more Scouts in their own regions in Scientology Volunteer Minister technology.

For more information on Scientology Volunteer Ministers disaster response, visit blog.volunteerministers.org. To enroll on the free online courses, visit the Volunteer Ministers website.

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Haiti Relief blog: personal accounts of Scientology Volunteers that were in Haiti

Scientology Volunteer Ministers come from all walks of life but what unifies them is their purpose to help. Fascinating personal accounts of Haiti Volunteers can be found in many places but we'd like to recommend a few.

http://haitiscientologyvolunteers.blogspot.com/

http://www.ellenthevm.blogspot.com/

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Australia: Scientology Volunteer Ministers Help Village of Pangaimotu

Scientology Volunteer Ministers from Australia delivered a workshop to the village of Pangaimotu in the Kingdom of Tonga.

When the Scientology Volunteer Ministers South Pacific Goodwill tour moved their operation to the island of Vava’u last month, residents of the village of Pangaimotu heard about the volunteers from Australia through radio and TV broadcasts and invited them to come to their island to deliver a workshop.

Pangaimotu is the name of a village and an island a half hour by boat from the capital of the Vava’u district of Tonga. The Town Officer welcomed the Scientologists to the village and found them a hall in a local church where they could deliver their workshop. Then he brought them to visit each of the 185 houses in the village to invite every family to attend.

While walking through the village, one of the couples they met thanked the Scientologists for helping them through a very rough period in their lives. The volunteers were surprised and the couple explained that a short while earlier, they had picked up some of the Volunteer Minister booklets when the Goodwill Tour was in Nuku’alofa, the capital of Tonga. Then, when trouble struck, the couple had the solutions they needed, to pull them through the crises they experienced.

Just as the Scientologists were about to begin presenting the workshop, a baby in the audience began to cry. The Scientology Volunteer Ministers showed those attending a simple technique anyone can use to help someone calm down. L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Scientology religion, developed a body of technology called Scientology “Assists.” An assist is a Scientology process that alleviates present time discomforts or difficulties. The particular assist the Scientology Volunteer Ministers demonstrated is called a “Locational Assist.” Easy to learn and do, a locational is done by directing a person’s attention off the painful area of his body or his difficulties and out onto the environment. When the parents used it, the child immediately stopped crying and became cheerful again.

Carrying on with the agenda they had planned, the Scientologists then covered techniques to improve the ability to learn, communicate and resolve conflicts.

Having attended the workshop, the people of the village of Pangaimotu understand why the motto of the Scientology Volunteer Ministers is “Something CAN be done about it”, and they now have tools they can use to improve their lives.

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Learn how with the Scientology Handbook based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard}

Scientology Volunteer Ministers Reach Out

Eight years ago in the wake of 9/11 David Miscavige issued a challenge to all Scientologists to view this horrible cataclysm as a wake-up call, and greatly intensify their work to help others. L. Ron Hubbard created the Scientology Volunteer Ministers movement in 1976, and it has expanded at an incredible rate as a result of David Miscavige's challenge, to the benefit of literally millions who have been helped by VMs over the past few years,
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Learn how with the Scientology Handbook based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard}

Scientology Web Site Inspires Personal and Social Change

The Scientology Volunteer Ministers web site provides tools to improve conditions in life.

The Scientology Volunteer Ministers web site took on a new dimension last year with free online courses anyone can do. The result is a virtual nexus, where people from all over the world learn simple tools developed by L. Ron Hubbard and use them to improve conditions in their own lives and those of their friends, families and their communities at large.

A student from Senegal in western Africa, who found the web site through Google, said, ” I think that even just reading the information I can achieve my goal: to avoid violence and create peace in my community.”

“I was thinking—How can we actually make a difference in the world?” wrote an industrial engineer from Bolivia, “and I was worried about the things that were happening. How can we face injustice, crime, and totalitarianism? We have to teach people to live by certain rules that ensure that these things won’t happen. We have to conquer darkness with light and develop social networks that bind people together with common principles of mutual caring, respect for law and respect for our neighbors. My country is going though very difficult times. There is violence and racism and hate. My search for peace and a way to make this world more secure led me to your web site.”

From Kenya, a childcare specialist wrote “Your lessons and strategies of dealing with children has really motivated me to join with your network.”

An engineer from Oman said “My interest was drawn to the real life issue assistance that I may attain from your courses. They seem to be the missing something that we very often overlook in life and forget to pass on to our children and peers.”

“What particularly got my attention,” wrote a manager from the Philippines, “is how your organization focuses its assistance on specific concerns and problems with solutions that can be applied immediately. I have been experiencing a great deal of change in myself and how I view others. And I want to learn more.”

The free Scientology courses provide tools to help with such things as marriage problems, trouble in relationships with others, raising children, difficulties on the job and overcoming stress, anxiety and depression. These are self-guided courses, meaning people move through them at their own pace. Each course includes practical exercises where students get hands-on experience in applying the data. The courses are supervised by trained extension course supervisors who ensure the students can use the material and provide feedback, guidance and help where needed.

To enroll on a free course, visit the Scientology Volunteer Ministers web site.

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Learn how with the Scientology Handbook based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard}

Remembering the Tsunami

Scientology Volunteer supervises staff of the Harbor Police in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka during an Assist seminar where the police learn to use the Assist technology developed by L. Ron Hubbard to assist tsunami suvivers in north-east Sri Lanka. On request from the police chief the Scientology Volunteers trained most of the police and military staff in the North-East Sri Lanka during 16 seminars.

See a video about the VMs at the new Scientology video site!!!


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Learn how with the Scientology Handbook based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard}

My Message to Those Affected by the Virginia Tech Massacre

I know what I say here can't do anything to replace your loss, but I am deeply saddened by what happened.

And to any of the countless millions who have been overwhelmed by these events, if you need some help, contact the International Volunteer Ministers Coordinator who can help you find a VM to help you.

If you happened to find my blog and want to help someone, there are some good directions on what you can do on the VM web site.




No matter how bad it is, Something CAN Be Done About It!
Learn how with the Scientology Handbook based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard

Scientology Volunteer Ministers Cavalcade

When I'm out on a Scientology Volunteer Ministers cavalcade with my friends, all of us in our bright yellow t-shirts and windbreakers, people often come up and ask us who we are and what we're doing.

What starts out as a casual question, however, often becomes an important change in that person's life. Because it is very rare to find someone who couldn't use a hand with some aspect of their life. (As a matter of fact I'm sure I've never met a person who can't use some help, although not everyone can admit it or accept it, but that's another story.)

The information I've learned in Scientology is so empowering, as it permits me to actually do something for people, whether I'm just meeting them for the first time or I've known them all my life.



No matter the situation, Something CAN Be Done About It!
Learn how with the Scientology Handbook based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard