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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Tampa Volunteer Ministers’ Hold Successful Autumn Blood Drive in Clearwater
The blood drive came at a critical time. As colleges and workplaces are gearing up for vacations during Thanksgiving and Christmas, the number of blood donations from these sources decreases.
After donation, each pint can be broken down into three different elements – red blood cells, plasma and platelets. These elements, frozen, can be stored. Plasma, used to help burn victims recover, can be stored for up to a year.
“It is estimated that 90% of the population of the United States will need one of these components in their lifetimes,” said Volunteer Minister Coordinator Judy Fagerman. “However, only 37% of the people who live in the US are eligible to donate, so every donation really counts!”
The Tampa Bay VMs, through this year’s blood drives with Florida Blood Services, have collected 236 units of blood.
Ms. Fagerman, who oversees VM activity from her duties at the Church of Scientology of Tampa, says that the VMs were originally established by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard. “He described a Volunteer Minister as “…a person who helps his fellow man on a volunteer basis by restoring purpose, truth and spiritual values to the lives of others.”
“The VMs have been a part of 128 worse-case scenario disaster sites,” said Fagerman. “Our VMs from Tampa have assisted fire fighters, National Guard, Red Cross and other groups at disasters, here and in places like India, Haiti and Mexico.”
For more information about the Volunteer Ministers, please go to www.volunteerministers.org.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Scientology Volunteer Ministers in Action all Over the World
Monday, April 09, 2012
SCIENTOLOGY VOLUNTEER MINISTERS OF MEXICO COMPLETE SEARCH AND RESCUE TRAINING
The Volunteer Ministers were inspired to participate in this month-long training program through their association with Los Topos. The alliance between the two groups began in Haiti, where they worked together to deal with the devastation after the January 2010 earthquake. Since then, Los Topos volunteers and executives have completed Volunteer Minister training at the National Church of Scientology of Mexico. And Los Topos carried out much of the training program the Volunteer Ministers have now completed.
But it was a personal experience in Colombia last year that brought home the urgency of carrying out a program like this.
“When we were in Colombia to help with the floods last year, I realized the importance of disaster prevention,” says Alejandro Del Llano, who directs the Scientology Volunteer Minister activities for Latin America. “We were evacuating buildings under the direction of CINAT—National Circle of Aide Technicians—the top disaster response team of Colombia and one of the best in Latin America. We found and evacuated an entire community of 6,000 residents, completing the operation just before a nearby mountain collapsed in a mudslide that buried the entire neighborhood. We saved thousands of lives. This experience brought home to us the urgency of gaining full competence in every possible disaster response skill.”
The Volunteer Ministers’ training began with a week-long hospital course in March 2012 in the classifying and handling of urgent medical situations. It included learning to recognize the levels of trauma and assessing priorities and the appropriate medical procedure to use for each. They trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), procedures for minor and major injuries, and the care of children, pregnant women and the elderly.
Next came training in civil protection for emergencies occurring inside buildings or other structures. This included organizing and executing evacuations, establishing safety zones and assessing the risks of a damaged building to those inside and the surrounding area.
The Scientology Volunteer Ministers then completed a course in underwater search and rescue where they learned to dive in rivers and at sea under extreme conditions including frigid temperatures, strong currents, and low or no visibility.
“We had to dive into waters where you literally could not see anything,” says del Llano. “We overcame our natural fears and are proud of the competence we gained, which makes it possible to help others in ways we were never able to do before.”
With these skills learned, they trained in initial assessments of disaster sites, including immediate care of victims and damage control—how to prevent loss of lives by spotting and evacuating dangerous zones or buildings likely to collapse.
Training in search and rescue under collapsed structures came next. This included analyzing the condition of structures, learning to penetrate and advance inside and underneath buildings, and tracking and extracting victims.
In a private hospital under the supervision of the emergency medical technician in charge of civil protection, they learned CPR, rapid diagnosis of external injuries, and how to transport and remove injured persons from confined spaces such as cars and rooms.
Part way through their training, the volunteers were invited to deploy as part of the civil defense unit to serve when more than 3 million converged for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI in the city of Silao in Guanajuato, Mexico.
Del Llano knows there is more to learn, but the training completed gives the team the immediate expertise needed to contend with the situations most likely to be dangerous in disaster zones.
“We have immersed ourselves in a previously unknown world of professional disaster response,” he says. “Coupled with our knowledge of the technology contained in theScientology Handbook, we are now able to perform an important service in times of disaster.”
For more information, visit the Scientology Volunteer Ministers website.
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The Scientology Volunteer Minister program was initiated by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard in 1976. There are now hundreds of thousands of people across 185 nations trained in the skills of a Volunteer Minister.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Thank you L. Ron Hubbard
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Volunteer Minister Thailand Disaster Response
While food waters are receding in many parts of the country, 16 central and four southern provinces are still affected, and flash floods and landslides again hit some of the southeastern provinces this week.
Distributing food and supplies to those in shelters and by boat to those stranded in their homes by the floods, the Volunteer Ministers from the Church of Scientology Mission, working in collaboration with other volunteer groups and agencies, have helped some 11,000 people.
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