Volunteer Ministers collect in their Clearwater, FL headquarters to be briefed earlier than deploying to southern counties
Volunteer Ministers in Ft. Myers strolling to a piece website
Removing particles and timber from Ft. Myers neighborhoods
Chainsaw staff clearing roads close to metropolis of Ft. Myers
One of many Volunteer Ministers groups cleansing up the streets in Ft. Myers
Disaster response organizations from Florida in addition to different states are working collectively to convey assist to hurricane survivors.
— Ms. Joava Good, Churches of Scientology Disaster Response
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, October 5, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — With 19 counties in the wake of Hurricane Ian now receiving emergency declarations the want for assist is gigantic.
Coordinating volunteer response all through the state, the Florida Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster (FL VOAD) has been working along with Volunteer Florida, the state’s lead company for volunteerism and nationwide service in Florida, in addition to nationwide and native catastrophe organizations.
Daily calls with nonprofits, church buildings and others commenced instantly after Hurricane Ian got here on shore. Churches of Scientology Disaster Response (CSDR) together with scores of different catastrophe organizations stepped as much as assist these in the landfall areas round Ft. Myers in Lee County, and these in Sarasota County and close by areas.
The Florida Scientology Volunteer Ministers, headquartered in Clearwater, FL, initially targeted on Lee and Sarasota counties. Arriving in Ft. Myers, the first groups deployed to varied metropolis places to assist with road and sidewalk particles removing and to flooded neighborhoods, clearing the means with chain saws.
Driving over 2300 miles from Salt Lake City to Clearwater, Florida, Ms. Joava Good, Deputy National Director of CSDR, joined her groups to assist. She commented, “Hurricanes always give disaster organizations a huge challenge. Their path of destruction is wide and affects thousands of citizens. There is much work to be done. Some organizations have been helping since landfall. Others are just arriving with supplies and hot food, but in all, the volunteers are stepping up and will continue to help.”
Ms. Good concluded, “Partnering with organizations using programs such as Crisis Clean Up, a work management tool bringing the needs of survivors and the help of disaster organizations together, will be a vital activity throughout this recovery. It will be a long recovery but with the leadership of FL VOAD and Volunteer Florida helping to ensure our organizations’ coordination, communication and collaboration is effective, the work will get done.”
As a member of National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, the Churches of Scientology Disaster Response (CSDR) workers and volunteers attain out to assist these in want it doesn’t matter what the circumstance and have for greater than 30 years introduced reduction to these devastated by earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, bombings, shootings and different disasters. It is tasked with the duties of offering non secular care in addition to helping with the unmet materials wants of survivors, responders and caregivers who’re affected by trauma, loss, upset, stress and confusion after a catastrophe.
The Church of Scientology Volunteer Ministers program is a spiritual social service created in the mid-Nineteen Seventies by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard. Its long run dedication to assist is written all through its scriptures. Mr. Hubbard wrote, “A 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.”
References:
https://www.scientologynews.org/press-releases/the-clearwater-scientology-volunteer-ministers-reach-out-with-help.html
https://csdr-us.org/category/csdr-news/
Rev. Susan Taylor
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