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Video: Haiti, One Year Later

@volunteer_dc — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:54:44 +0000

The following video was featured on NBC Washington, featuring our Scientology Volunteer Ministers, as well as the many Haitians we worked with and helped from L’Eglise Baptiste du Calvaire – the largest Haitian congregation in the DC area:

What Medical Professionals Have to Say About the Scientology Volunteer Ministers in Haiti

@volunteer_dc — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:54:59 +0000

Since 17 January 2010, the Scientology Volunteer Ministers have been helping the Haitian population in every way needed. Now, six weeks after the earthquake there are still over 100 Scientology Volunteer Ministers on the ground in Haiti arranging logistics and supplies while helping to build shelters and improving living conditions. Their contribution has been received well by medical professionals and other aid workers, and the video below tells their story:

To find out more about how to help, contact the Scientology Volunteer Ministers of Washington, D.C here.

Scientology-Sponsored Charter Flight Brings Medical and Spiritual Aid to Haiti

@volunteer_dc — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:20:36 +0000

A charter flight organized by the Church of Scientology carried 133 doctors, nurses, emergency medical technicians and Scientology Volunteer Ministers to Port-au-Prince where the group arrived Sunday. Assisted by Homeland Security, the plane left JFK International Airport Saturday to provide urgently needed help in Haiti in the wake of the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that hit the island on January 12.

The effort brought together medical doctors and nurses from the Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad (Association des Medecins Haitiens a l’Etranger), paramedics and emergency medical technicians from New York City and New Jersey led by the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps, and Scientology Volunteer Ministers from New York, Tampa and elsewhere.

The group arrived in Port-au-Prince Sunday afternoon, after spending the night in Miami due to delayed departure from JFK as a result of the security alert that closed the airport Saturday afternoon.

Upon arrival in Haiti, the group was escorted to an area of the city where non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and relief organizations are headquartered. They met with officials of other relief organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, to coordinate their efforts and to bring their reinforcements to the greatly overtaxed medical teams.

Teams of Scientology Volunteer Ministers from throughout the U.S., Mexico, Europe and elsewhere will provide administrative and organizational support to the medical teams, distribute supplies and provide trauma relief and grief counseling to the victims and their families.

“We had to reach out to provide substantial and meaningful help to the victims of this disaster,” said Pat Harney, a spokesperson for the Scientology Volunteer Ministers who is heading up the team in Haiti. “We have an outpouring of support from Scientologists and others around the world and we are underway in getting much- needed aid to the people of Port-au-Prince.”

The Scientology Volunteer Ministers Corps is an embracive program of the Church of Scientology to provide community service, disaster relief and emergency response. Created more than 30 years ago by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard, the program has expanded to 203,000 Volunteer Ministers worldwide who have served at 145 worst-case disaster sites, including Ground Zero after 9/11, the Southeast Asia tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.

Video: Scientology Disaster Response Crews to Haiti Draw on 9/11 Experience

@volunteer_dc — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:46:00 +0000

The following video is WPIX NYC TV coverage of the flight that just went to Haiti, sponsored by the Churches of Scientology Disaster Response, carrying NY and DC doctors, nurses, EMT’s and volunteer ministers, as well as needed medical supplies for Haiti.

If you want to help with the effort, contact us for more information!

Haitian Embassy Becomes Command Center and “Home” to Friends, Families, Survivors and Volunteers

@volunteer_dc — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:35:38 +0000

The following video was posted on DC’s Channel Nine News website:

The accompanying article read:

Family members looking for information about relatives in Haiti are rubbing elbows with people who want to help survivors at the Haitian Embassy in Northwest Washington.

About a dozen volunteers from the Church of Scientology came to the embassy today too.

“We can see these people are in big trouble,” Ken Spliethof says. “We are here to help.”

To find out how you can help, call 202-534-4805, or contact us here.