Improving Society

The world's largest volunteer assistance organization is getting larger at a rapid rate, and it's happening everywhere, all over the world. Recently there was breakthrough expansion in the African nation of Botswana.

A landlocked country just north of South Africa, Botswana is partially covered by the incredible Kalahari Desert, and is home to a large quantity of the kind of large animals people think of when they think of Africa -- lions, elephants and so forth.

A Scientology Volunteer Minister mission visited Francistown in Eastern Botswana, and left behind a corps of newly trained Scientology Volunteer Ministers who will carry on their work, not only in Francistown, but also in the village of Pandamatenga, 250 km away.

The story of how the Volunteer Ministers came to Pandamatenga began several months ago when a man from the village visited the Goodwill tent in Francistown and decided to take a course in communication. He was so delighted with how much the course improved his abilities that he asked the tour members to bring L. Ron Hubbard’s Volunteer Minister techniques to the people of his village.

The Scientology Volunteer Ministers Goodwill Tour took him up on his invitation and for the past two months they have been traveling back and forth between Pandamatenga and Francistown, providing their seminars and courses.

The mayor and chief of Pandamatenga, realizing how valuable these services are, donated land for a permanent Volunteer Ministers center that could continue to serve the people of the village after the Goodwill tour moves on to its next location. And now the construction of this new center, built in the style of the local dwellings, has been completed.

Read more about the story at the Volunteer Ministers website, www.volunteerministers.org.