Scientology’s Nepal Disaster Response Team Provides Aid for District Hit Hardest in Nation’s April 25 Earthquake

Four teams of Volunteer Ministers bring relief to Sindhupalchowk, near the Chinese border in eastern Nepal, whose death toll approaches 3,000 people.

As the grim search-and-rescue phase of the Nepal earthquake disaster response moved over the past week into aid distribution for needy districts and villages, four teams of Scientology Volunteer Ministers concentrated their efforts on providing help to the devastated district of Sindhupalchowk in eastern Nepal near the Chinese border.

Some 38 Volunteer Ministers, 28 Nepalese volunteers and 10 from abroad, are distributing food, making tents, clearing roads, and providing Scientology “assists” to refugees in four villages of the district that suffered a death toll of nearly 3,000 residents – making it the worst-hit area in the nation. (“Assists” are techniques developed by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard that are designed to help speed recovery for those suffering physical and emotional trauma.)

Some 38 Volunteer Ministers, 28 Nepalese volunteers and 10 from abroad, are distributing food, making tents, clearing roads, and providing Scientology “assists” to refugees

Among the VMs are five emergency medical technicians from Colombia from the nonprofit group CINAT (El Circulo Nacional de Auxiliadores Tecnicos – National Circle of Technical Helpers) who were flown to Nepal by the Church of Scientology. CINAT works in partnership with the Volunteer Ministers to provide medical care in times of disaster. There is also a medical doctor, a Volunteer Minister from Pakistan. Together, they are providing urgently needed medical care to villagers.