Engineering a New World

Scientology Volunteer Ministers, on arrival to Haiti, did an up-to-date & on the ground assessment of the area. Based on this, the most important and urgent needs were isolated.  If you’re planning on assisting with the relief efforts in any way, think with these as some of the core items needed:

These are:

VOLUNTEER MINISTERS AND VOLUNTEERS WITH THE FOLLOWING SKILLS OR DISASTER AREA EXPERIENCE:

Volunteers are needed with the following skills:

- Search and Rescue experience
- Anybody with skills in setting up communication lines
- Coordination skills
- Crowd control skills

Anyone with these skills or who wishes to be trained to help in this capacity, contact the Volunteer Ministers Disaster Response office, and they can get you free training for this. 

MATERIALS THAT ARE MOST URGENTLY NEEDED:

-Water (especially water sanitation equipment/materials)
- Medical supplies
- Non-perishable food supplies
- Other commodities such blankets, tents, sanitation materials (e.g. soap, toilette paper, Diapers, shampoo)

Your help is definitely wanted!  If you wish to help in any of these areas, contact the Volunteer Ministers Disaster Response office and they can direct you to the way you can best assist from your area, skills, and capacity to help.

You’d have to be living in a cave to not know by now that Haiti has suffered a 7.0 richter scale earthquake, and with an already-shot infrastructure, is now in a worst-case-scenario disaster as volunteer organizations struggle to coordinate their efforts and bring help to the millions that need it in Haiti. 

I’ve got a little 4-month-old, so I’m not in a position to go down there and pitch in with the Volunteer Ministers already on their way there, but what I can do is help get the word out. 

In coordination with the Scientology Volunteer Ministers of Washington, D.C., we now have a blog to give you the latest on what’s going on in Haiti, as well as a twitter account that will be kept up to date on how you can assist – or how you can get help if you or someone you know is in need.