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SCIENTOLOGY VOLUNTEER MINISTERS (VMs)
TSUNAMI SURVIVORS AID
Asian Disaster Relief
Thailand
18 February 2005
Rohn Walker with his new Thai Scientology volunteers
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Scientology volunteers board buses to travel to the tsunami-hit areas in southern Thailand
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In the refugee camps, Scientology volunteers give relief to grief-stricken residents
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A Scientology assist given in a refugee camp in Phang Na in Thailand
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As part of the tsunami relief efforts by Scientology Volunteers, Rohn and Vikki Walker from California arrived in Thailand and launched a new project.
Their first concern was the displaced people living in camps with little or no aid. Rohn and Vikki began working closely with the largest food distributor in Thailand to see that supplies made it out to these people. They are now receiving food and vitamins. The Walkers also taught the refugees in the camps how to administer Scientology assists and Dianetics techniques. This has been very successful with newly trained volunteers from the camps bringing spiritual relief to their own people.
Next, with the help of a Scientology mission in Thailand, Rohn and Vikki organized a large Dianetics workshop to train 85 new Scientology disaster relief volunteers. At the end of a long day of training these volunteers boarded a bus and traveled for 12 hours overnight. Their destination was a refugee camp in Phang Nga province in southern Thailand. Putting their new skills to use, they helped over 150 tsunami survivors through their trauma.
Following this the Walkers held a second Dianetics workshop. The result was another two busloads containing 100 Scientology disaster relief volunteers. These buses also took these volunteers on their way to camp Plu Teow in the Phang Nga province.
Visiting another camp in Phang Nga, Rohn and his team taught a group of 32 Buddhist monks how to perform Scientology assists. Once trained the monks and the volunteer team started bringing relief to the people in this refugee camp. At the end of the day, the head of the camp called everyone to a meeting. After a moment of silence for those who had lost their lives in the tsunami, the residents publicly thanked Rohn and his team and acknowledged L. Ron Hubbard for developing a way to really help people.
Rohn and Vikki Walker’s mission is not over. They will continue to direct the training of volunteers from the south coast of Thailand in Karbi, to the island of Phi Phi.
For more information call the VM Hotline 1-800-435-7498 (US & Canada) or from outside North America call 1-323-960-1949 or e-mail vm@volunteerministers.org
For more information: Scientology Volunteer Ministers News
1. Assists are techniques developed by L. Ron Hubbard. They operate on the principle that one tends to withdraw mentally or spiritually from an injured area. Only by restoring communication with this area can one bring the spiritual element into healing, thereby greatly speeding the healing process. Assists are used to alleviate stress and physical aches and pains, or to orient a confused or distraught individual to his present environment.
Learn on-line how to do Scientology Assists.
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