Anne Roberts

Chairman of the Board of Relgious Technology Center, Mr. David Miscavige, in his speech at the Grand Opening of the Church of Scientology of San Francsico described some of the work the International Association of Scientologists is doing to improve life through its support of Applied Scholastics. Mr. Miscavige said:

"Today our education and literacy projects reach into inner-cities through 415 centers across fifty-four countries. That's just a start. For while our groups have been bringing the tools of literacy outside the school system, that new campus is now training governmental educators that represent the school systems of entire nations. From as far away as Zimbabwe in Africa, in Mongolia and yes—even with the United States Department of Education."

IAS Freedom Medal Winner Anne Roberts has perhaps done more to help the children in Africa than any of the great humanitarians who have dedicated themselves to improving live for African youth.

I say this because Anne has brought real, effective technology to them in the form of L. Ron Hubbard study technology -- workable tools a child or young adult (or anyone) can learn that then enables him or her to study and apply any other subject.

The African's I have met are very aware that they have an opportunity now, with the world going more and more high-tech, to end poverty in their countries by providing technical education to the youth of their countries so they can compete in the electronic industries.

Here's a good article on the Applied Scholastics web site on what Anne has done.

UN Day Against Drugs

Today is the UN Day Against Drugs and Trafficking. It's very important that the private sector works to handle the drug pandemic. Governments cannot do it along.

In Scientology churches around the world today, Scientologists are working to get the word out about the harmful effects of drugs.

Read about some of the activities here:

The Church of Scientology of Tampa

The Church of Scientology of Toronto

The Church of Scientology of San Francisco

The Church of Scientology of New York

The Church of Scientology of San Diego.

Winning the War Against Drugs

Scientologists are very much involved in helping young people avoid the tragedy of drug addiction.

An example is IAS medal winners Michael Neilson and Asa Graaf.

Freedom Magazine described their winning the IAS Freedom Medal as follows:

Arresting the decline of drug proliferation was the first topic in Mr. Miscavige‘s round-up of year number 19‘s accomplishments. It was, as well, the cause championed by the evening‘s first IAS Freedom Medal winners Michael Neilson and Asa Graaf, leaders of a team of drug education specialists in Sweden who, in Mr. Miscavige‘s words, are “doing more to handle the drug problem than any other group on the planet.”

Neilson and Graaf set out ten years ago to save Swedish children from a drug problem of epic proportions. In that time, they have not only salvaged an entire generation, they have created a nationwide movement for a drug-free tomorrow.

The Church of Scientology International has created the Scientology Anti-Drug web site to answer questions about drugs and provide enough information to help young people decide NOT to take drugs.

Knowing the fact presented in this site about the most commonly abused drugs can make all the difference.

There is more information on the Scientology Anti Drug campaign at the Scientology Press Office

Scientology Social Program

All over the world, people are facing similar problems with or stemming from drug abuse, crime illiteracy and immorality.

David Miscavige has called these the 4 scourges of or modern world, and this is very apt.

One reason the International Association of Scientologists has sponsored the renovation of churches like the Church of Scientology of New York and the Church of Scientology of Spain is so that programs that directly address the resolution of these problems can be made more readily available.

For example, Scientology churches are set up in such a way that anyone who is concerned about drug abuse can walk in and get help in setting up a group that applies L. Ron Hubbard's technology in a secular setting to help overcome these social diseases.

The Scientology Press Office carries news releases on these topics as well.

Scientology Volunteer Ministers Goodwill Tours

One of the programs the International Association of Scientologists sponsors is the Scientology Volunteer Ministers Goodwill Tours. For the past year these tours have been traveling through Brazil, fBatswana, Central Europe and India. They survey the local leaders and the community and provide training and one-on-one help, seminars to help empower people with Scientology tools to improve their lives.

Now three more tours are joining the three that began last year. These are the trans-Syberian tour, the South Pacific Island tour and the East Asian tour.

There are so many caring people who really want to help their communities. When they learn about the solutions L. Ron Hubbard developed for the problems they encounter they are eager to adopt them in their own programs.

Here is just one example from the Scientology Volunteer Minsiters Web site:

Humanitarian and educator, Mohammed Khalil Ullah, is committed to improving the lives of the children of the slums of Calcutta and has found, in the technology of L. Ron Hubbard, the way to do so.

For several years Mr. Ullah has been running projects in the slums, including providing schooling and health care for the children, vocational training for women so they can learn the skills they need to get jobs, and rescuing children who have been the victims of sexual trafficking, providing them a place to live, food and education.

Learning about Mr. Hubbard's technology when he attended a seminar presented by the Scientology Volunteer Goodwill Tour at the Calcutta Book Fair in January, Mr. Ullah thought Mr. Hubbard's methods could help him accomplish his mission.

He trained on the Disaster Response Course and several other Volunteer Ministers courses, provided by the Goodwill Tour. Inspired by what he learned he decided to implement this on a broad scale; he opened a school in the Calcutta slums, where he incorporated the techniques of study technology into the curriculum and plans to open dozens more.

"The difference Mr. Ullah's work is having on the lives of the children of Calcutta is incalculable," said Ms. Marion Whitta, Director of the India Volunteer Ministers Goodwill Tour. "In a country where trafficking in children is commonplace, Mr. Ullah's work is not a luxury — it is vital to the lives of the young people he is helping."

New Scientology Churches

There is a lot excitement about new Scientology churches. The church in Atlanta will be moving to a beautiful new home shortly. So will Seattle and Las Vegas in the US, and Melbourne, Torino, Stuttgart and Budapest, to name a few.

When the new churches in Johannesburg and Buffalo opened, David Miscavige went to the grand openings. The keynote speeches Mr. Miscavige gave at these events show that these churches stand for a great deal more than beautiful new buildings -- they represent a great expansion of our community services and our ability to accomplish the Aims of Scientology: "A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights."