Photo Gallery - 2001-2011: The Volunteer Ministers Movement

More than 800 Scientology Volunteer Ministers provided help at Ground Zero in New York in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, where they became known for their compassion, skill and willingness to take on any task. © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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Scientology Volunteer Ministers provided physical and spiritual help to the rescue workers at Ground Zero who worked around the clock after the terror attack. © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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The Volunteer Minister tent at Ground Zero was known as “Freedom Café.” Rescue workers came for meals, companionship, and Scientology disaster relief techniques to help them cope with the daunting rescue effort. © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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Volunteer Ministers who served at Ground Zero in New York after 9/11 inspired the meteoric expansion of the movement—now the world’s largest independent relief force. © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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December 26, 2004, marked a tragedy of epic proportions—the Indian Ocean tsunami. Some 500 Scientology Volunteer Ministers from around the world participated in the relief effort. © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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A Scientology Volunteer Minister in India after the 2004 tsunami, training others to provide Scientology “assists” to speed healing and help survivors overcome loss and trauma © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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After the Indian Ocean tsunami, Scientology Volunteer Ministers helped thousands of villagers, like this woman in India, overcome shock, loss and trauma. © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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More than 900 Scientology Volunteer Ministers from throughout the United States and abroad traveled to the Gulf Coast to help provide relief after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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With the infrastructure of Haiti destroyed by the earthquake of January 2010, Volunteer Ministers helped in the search and rescue effort. © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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Hundreds of Volunteer Ministers from around the world helped with any needed task after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, from organizing supplies and distributing food to caring for newborn babies. © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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With an estimated 1 million left homeless by the Haiti earthquake, Scientology Volunteer Ministers brought food, supplies and medical assistance to hundreds of tent cities around Port-au-Prince. © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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Once the immediate emergency was over in Haiti, a permanent base was established in nearby Pétionville and staffed by 34 local Volunteer Ministers to help the people of their country. © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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In 2010, when the Indus River overflowed in the worst floods in 80 years, volunteers converged upon Karachi to join the Disaster Assist Team to aid the people of the devastated region. © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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In October 2010, Scientology Volunteer Ministers teamed up with the Red Cross and the Thai Army to distribute food to flood-stranded villages. © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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Scientology Volunteer Ministers worked with Los Topos, the well-known Mexican search and rescue team, who trained as Scientology Volunteer Ministers after working with the Scientology Disaster Response Team in Haiti in 2010. © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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Scientology Volunteer Ministers served in shelters for those left homeless by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, described as the worst disaster to strike Japan since the end of World War II. © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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In the spring of 2011, when tornadoes ravaged the Midwest and Southern United States, Volunteer Ministers helped provide urgently needed relief. © 2025 Church of Scientology International. All Rights Reserved.

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2001-2011: The Volunteer Ministers Movement—10 Years of Indiscriminate Help

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