India

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.

Indonesia, 2005: A Scientology Volunteer Minister in Indonesia carries a child out of the wreckage of the tsunami.

With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 we look back at the work of the Volunteer Minister over the past decade. The Scientology Volunteer Ministers who served at Ground Zero in the months following 9/11 inspired those who responded to these and other devastating disasters in 2005 and 2006.

  2005

Peru, 2007: Volunteer Ministers flew to Peru in August to provide aid when a magnitude 8 earthquake destroyed most of the city of Pisco.

The Scientology Volunteer Ministers who served at Ground Zero in the months following 9/11 set a standard for disaster response and inspired a movement that carried forward for the past decade, as evidenced by the work of Volunteer Ministers at disaster sites on six continents between 2007 and 2009.

    2007

Mr. G.S. Saini, Director of the National College of Civil Defense of India with the lead Volunteer Minister for India.

The Director of the National College of Civil Defense of India, G.S. Saini, invited the Scientology Volunteer Ministers of India to take part in that country’s national conference scheduled for November 17th, 2010, in India.