Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news [...]]]> The NBC Today Show featured a excellent and very personal view of the hard work and help the Scientology Volunteer Ministers are delivering in Haiti.

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The Scientology Volunteer Ministers Corps is a program of the Church of Scientology providing 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 175 worst-case disaster sites, including Ground Zero after 9/11, the Southeast Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti earthquake disaster.

Since the disaster struck in Haiti, Scientology Volunteer Ministers from all over the world, including several from Washington, D.C., have put aside their work to travel to Haiti and volunteer.  Over 150 Scientology Volunteer Ministers are active in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and thus far have:

• helped over 37,000 people, including hundreds of orphans
• arranged and delivered over 38,600 tons of food and medical supplies
• served more than 3,150 meals

For more information on the program, and how you can help, contact us here.

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 [...]]]> 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.