The Churches of Scientology Disaster Response Coordinator has put out a call for Volunteer Ministers to travel to Haiti, in response to the January 12, 2010, magnitude 7.0 earthquake.
Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive estimates the death toll from the earthquake, which destroyed most of the Capital City of Port-au-Prince, could reach 100,000. Lack of resources and decimated infrastructure in Haiti, the least-developed country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest in the world according to the US State Department, is severely hampering the search and rescue operation and care for the survivors.
For information on how to join the Volunteer Ministers team in Haiti or to sponsor a volunteer to go contact the Volunteer Ministers Disaster Response Coordinator here, or call our disaster response hotline at 202-534-4805.
Volunteer Ministers are also being called to help give grief couseling and Assists to the local Greater Washington DC area Haitian community and to lend support and care to the Haitian community by participating in their local events including church services and candle light vigils. The Volunteer Ministers coordinator stated that, “the Haitian people are a strong and resilient people, but we must stand with them in their time of great need. There is much sadness which needs to be overcome and by standing in solidarity and with a shoulder to shoulder effort we will over come the great barriers to healing their nation.”
Contact us to find out how you can help.
This is fantastic. Anyone can help. Even if you can’t personally GO to Haiti or physically help in the disaster relief efforts, any small donation will help as well!
[...] got a little 4-month-old, so I’m not in a position to go down there and pitch in with the Volunteer Ministers already on their way there, but what I can do is help get the word [...]