HAITI GAINS TOOLS TO RISE ABOVE THE RUBBLE

Haitians, now trained as Volunteer Ministers, deliver to fellow survivors of Hurricane Matthew the same relief they experienced when given their first assist.

Haitians don’t just experience miracles of VM tech, they learn it to stand on their own.

When Hurricane Matthew tore through Haiti in October 2016, killing over 1,000, veteran Volunteer Ministers deployed for emergency response and to help rebuild. They found villages decimated and homes with nothing more than half a door and a concrete slab. Villagers were in shock, and some were still standing, doing nothing weeks after.

Veteran VMs gathered a core of 30 local VMs and implemented a daily schedule of disaster response by day and seminars by evening, each on a chapter of The Scientology Handbook: Tools for Life film, to eventually train each as certified VMs. They set about salvaging, rebuilding and anything needed—administering first aid, giving assists to the distraught, filtering drinking water, removing rubble and dead trees, rebuilding churches—every facet of disaster response.

In each new village, people formed around them and jumped in to contribute. Soon, the whole village was helping, awakened by the VM “something can be done about it” attitude. VMs then trained eager villagers in VM technology, leaving behind new VMs. In this way—helping and then teaching to help—following the hurricane, VMs trained 1,029, delivered 2,038 assists and helped 22,718 people.



WE really WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU

The free online Volunteer Ministers courses provide real solutions to life’s real problems. Here is what a few recent graduates of the courses shared with us:

A.R. FROM ARGENTINA COMPLETED THE TECHNOLOGY OF STUDY COURSE

M.E. FROM EGYPT COMPLETED THE EMOTIONAL TONE SCALE COURSE

C.K. FROM HUNGARY COMPLETED THE ASSISTS FOR ILLNESSES AND INJURIES COURSE

J.C. FROM VENEZUELA COMPLETED THE ETHICS AND THE CONDITIONS COURSE



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