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Ayal Lindeman (left) accepting Nurse of the Year Award from President of Haitian American Nurses Association (HANA) of Rockland County, New York.

The Rockland County Haitian American Nurses Association honored Ayal Lindeman with their Nurse of the Year Award.

At the annual gala celebration and fundraising event September 15, the Rockland County Haitian American Nurses Association, HANA, presented their 2012 Inspiring Leader and Nurse of the Year Award to Ayal Lindeman for his service to the people of Haiti.

Students being helped to complete Scientology courses in the big yellow yent on the Andhra University Campus in Visakhapatnam. Photo: K.R. Deepak

Article by G. S. Subrahmanyam in The Hindu on the Scientology Volunteer Ministers Goodwill Tour, currently in the city of Visakhapatnam on the east coast of India.

Helping create a world without criminality, without insanity and without war is the ambitious aim of the India Scientology Goodwill Tour.

Singer Grace Paul performed original Swahili song based on the motto of the Scientology Volunteer Ministers with students joining her in the chorus: “No matter the situation, something can be done about it.

Students at the Lord Baden-Powell Memorial School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, earn certificates from the Scientology Volunteer Ministers Africa Goodwill Tour. 

A special graduation and open house June 13 at the Lord Baden-Powell Memorial School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, attended by students, faculty and parents, acknowledged students who completed Disaster Response Specialist Training through the Scientology Volunteer Ministers Africa Goodwill Tour.

Ayal Lindeman (center), delivering a seminar on community health and first-aid in Carrefour, Haiti.

Scientology Volunteer Minister Ayal Lindeman is carrying out his 6th humanitarian mission to Haiti since the January 2010 earthquake.  Since arriving May 14, he has trained more than 1,100 community health personnel, families and first-responders in simple skills that save lives.

Fiji’s April 2012 floods were the worst in decades, causing $71.3 million in damage.

Scientology Volunteer Ministers, mobilized in the wake of recent floods, are providing relief and helping in the cleanup operation in Vita Levu, the main island of Fiji.

The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates the flooding of early April 2012, the worst in decades, caused $71.3 million in damage. And although the waters have receded, entire villages were submerged in floodwaters and the damage continues to impact the lives of thousands.

Mathew Andrews, leader of the Scientology Volunteer Ministers Goodwill Tour gave an overview of the 19 topics the group will cover in seminars to those attending the opening of the Tour in Honiara.

Mathew Andrews, leader of the Scientology Volunteer Ministers Goodwill Tour gave an overview of the 19 topics the group will cover in seminars to those attending the opening of the Tour in Honiara.Our aims are to pass on the knowledge of Scientology so people can overcome problems that trouble them or those they care about Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 27, 2012 

In a traditional ceremony of welcome, Paramount Chief of Savulei welcomes the Scientology Volunteer Ministers to the village of Lambi.

The Savulei Paramount Council of Chiefs of the Solomon Islands endorsed the Scientology Volunteer Ministers program in March 2012 and welcomed the volunteers to the island in a traditional ceremony that dates back from the dawn of time.

Lambi is home to Paramount Chief Savulei whose authority extends over the 56 chiefs of the Savulei Council of Chiefs.  So impressed was he by the results he saw in his village, he and his council officially endorsed the program and invited the Volunteer Ministers to return for a traditional welcoming ceremony.

Scientology Volunteer Ministers learned to penetrate and advance inside and underneath buildings to track and extract victims.

A team of Scientology Volunteer Ministers returned to Mexico City this week after completing a rigorous course of training in disaster search and rescue in various locales around Mexico.  The training was supervised by Los Topos, the renowned Mexican search and rescue team featured in a National Geographic documentary on the Japan tsunami of 2011, and other top professionals.  The purpose: to leverage experience and expertise gained to direct the activities of the Scientology Volunteer Ministers Disaster Response in the worst possible disasters.