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ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA •
Founder and chairman of the St. Petersburg, Florida, Human Rights Walkathon, Linda Drazkowski believes a better world is in our own hands.
In 2007, Linda Drazkowski was shocked.
“Like so many others, I believed slavery ended a century ago,” she says.
Then she discovered that human trafficking is one of the largest criminal industries in the world today, second only to the drug and arms trades. She was outraged to learn that children as young as 12 or 13 are often the victims.
WASHINGTON, D.C. •
Scientologist Niko Papaheraklis is the Director of Youth for Human Rights, Washington D.C. chapter, and has traveled around the world to promote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Dividing his time between work, volunteering and Scientology, in Panama, Washington, D.C., and Clearwater, Florida, Niko Papaheraklis is a focused and fun-loving 26-year-old ball of energy.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA •
Scout Troop 88, sponsored by the Church of Scientology of the Valley in North Hollywood, satisfies their sense of adventure by…reading.
JUAREZ, MEXICO •
Juarez, Mexico, was known as the murder capital of the world. But the homicide rate has declined by 45 percent since the broad distribution of The Way to Happiness, a booklet featured in a new brochure published by the Church of Scientology.
Twenty-year-old Juan Carlos Martinez looked out across the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and wondered what had happened to the place where he was raised.
MADRID, SPAIN •
Spanish Scientologists celebrate the milestone by hosting their 2nd annual Religious Freedom Awards.
SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA •
Costa Rican legislator honored for seeing to human rights education being implemented throughout the country’s school system.
USA •
In his run across America to promote The Way to Happiness, Scientologist John Radich was bolstered all along the way by the beauty of the country and the new friends he made.
Just as the sun was setting on November 23, 2010, an elated if exhausted 56-year-old man with the wiry build of a long-distance runner dashed across the Atlantic City boardwalk, down the steps, and onto the sand.
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA •
Protecting oneself or one’s loved ones from involuntary commitment, which affects more than 155,000 Californians a year, was the subject of a community forum at the Church of Scientology Pasadena.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA •
The Church of Scientology has acquired the historic KCET studio lot in Hollywood for the expansion of the Church’s production of religious and social betterment audiovisual properties.