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Image Caption: When floods inundated a third of Pakistan, the Scientology Assist Team immediately traveled to remote areas to help.<\/em><\/p>\n
The team has been providing relief in the wake of disasters for more than a decade and responded immediately to this year\u2019s floods that left a third of the country\u00a0under water<\/a>.<\/p>\n They have visited towns rarely mentioned in Western news: In Bhittai and Qasimabad, they brought food and clothing to some 500 people stranded by the flood. They brought relief to the towns of Zhob, Dadu, and Dera Ismail Khan. They have traveled across the provinces of Punjab and Sindh.<\/p>\n \u201cWe really felt honored to visit the most neglected province, Baluchistan,\u201d said Perwaiz Hasan, who leads Pakistan\u2019s Scientology Assist Team. The team was warned that the area was unsafe. \u201cBut it wasn\u2019t true,\u201d said Hasan. \u201cThe people in that area were very friendly and welcoming, and they were really happy we came.\u201d<\/p>\n With flooding comes a host of medical complications.<\/p>\n \u201cStanding water is an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes, which are currently spreading malaria and dengue fever in Pakistan,\u201d said\u00a0Richard Brennan<\/a>, regional emergency director for the eastern Mediterranean region at the World Health Organization. \u201cRespiratory illnesses are rampant. And toxic floodwaters have caused skin infections and scabies.\u201d<\/p>\n The Scientology Assist Team includes a corps of medical doctors and nurses who provide medical camps to care for those in need.<\/p>\n After addressing immediate physical needs, the Pakistan Volunteer Assist Team provides Scientology\u00a0assists\u2014techniques developed by humanitarian and Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard that address the emotional and spiritual factors in stress and trauma. And they share the\u00a0Scientology Tools for Life<\/a>, a series of online films and courses that provide skills to help people overcome difficulties and better their circumstances.<\/p>\n For more than a decade, Perwaiz Hasan and his team have been responding to disasters in Pakistan including\u00a0monsoon-driven floods<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a07.5 earthquake of 2015<\/a>. His team members have also deployed to disasters abroad, including the Nepal earthquake of 2015 and a tsunami and volcano in Jakarta in 2018.<\/p>\n In 2012, the International Association of Scientologists awarded Hasan the Freedom Medal,\u00a0presented to Scientologists for stellar accomplishments in forwarding the dignity and freedom of all humankind, thus furthering the Church\u2019s humanitarian objectives.<\/p>\n The Church of Scientology\u00a0Volunteer Ministers program<\/a>\u00a0is a religious social service created in the mid-1970s by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard. It constitutes one of the world\u2019s largest independent relief forces. Scientology ecclesiastical leader\u00a0Mr. David Miscavige<\/a>, calling on Scientologists to use what they know to redouble their efforts to aid their fellow man, has inspired tremendous growth in the Volunteer Ministers movement.<\/p>\n A Volunteer Minister\u2019s mandate is to be \u201ca person who helps his fellow man on a volunteer basis by restoring purpose, truth and spiritual values to the lives of others.\u201d Their creed: \u201cA Volunteer Minister does not shut his eyes to the pain, evil and injustice of existence. Rather, he is trained to handle these things and help others achieve relief from them and new personal strength as well.\u201d<\/p>\n Their motto is no matter the circumstances, \u201cSomething\u00a0can\u00a0be done about it.\u201d<\/p>\n For more information on the technology used by the Volunteer Minister, watch\u00a0Scientology Tools for Life<\/a>\u00a0on the Scientology Network at DIRECTV 320 or at\u00a0www.Scientology.tv<\/a>.<\/p>\n LEARN MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.scientologynews.org\/press-releases\/<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.scientology.tv\/films\/scientology-principles\/tools-for-life.html<\/a><\/p>\n MULTIMEDIA:<\/strong><\/p>\n
![https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/22-1130-s2p-cosflood-300dpi.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nCAPTION: When floods inundated a third of Pakistan, the Scientology Assist Team immediately traveled to remote areas to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KARACHI, Pakistan and LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov. 30, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — In a country as prone to cataclysm and disaster as Pakistan, some might say there is not much you can count on except bad news. But Perwaiz Hasan and the Scientology Assist Team are the exception to that rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8949,"featured_media":86968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[608,12804,596,142],"tags":[18557,16300],"class_list":["post-86970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion-news","category-ap","category-global-aid-news","category-world-news","tag-pakistan-flood","tag-scientology-volunteer-ministers","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":3956,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/22-1130-s2p-cosflood-300dpi.jpg\"){kind=link}