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SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA •
Scientologists marked International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking with drug prevention focusing on the prescription drug abuse epidemic.
LAKE FOREST, CALIFORNIA •
October 22 was a landmark day for Lake Forest, California, as the town welcomed a new Ideal Scientology Mission to their home.
NAPLES, ITALY •
Scientologists from the Church of Scientology Mission of Naples, Italy, take action to safeguard and improve the environment.
JAKARTA, INDONESIA •
A Scientology Volunteer Minister and the women of local healthcare clinics mobilize to provide help to those affected by recent Jakarta floods.
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS, CALIFORNIA •
Launching a drug-free holiday season, volunteers from Scientology Churches in greater Los Angeles brought the Truth About Drugs to the 12th annual Say No to Drugs Holiday Classic.
More than 3,000 athletes competed in the 12th annual Say No to Drugs Holiday Classic Race at Universal Studios last week and came home with a complimentary copy of The Truth About Drugs booklet in their gift bags.
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY •
On Peace Day, Church of Scientology volunteers reminded people that the rights enshrined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights are the foundation of peace.
Scientologists from Budapest and other nearby cities celebrated International Peace Day September 21 with a human rights march and street demonstration in the center of the city.
They marched to call attention to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as a potent tool for peace.
JAPAN •
Concerns about rising drug use prompt Japanese Scientologists to double their drug education and prevention efforts
According to this year’s World Drug Report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Japan has fewer drug users than most other countries.
But Japanese officials and national police are still concerned. In August, Naoto Takeuchi of Japan's National Police Agency expressed apprehension over “an alarming increase of drugs coming from North Korea” and how this could impact society.
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE •
The Tennessee Chapter of Youth for Human Rights, under the umbrella of United for Human Rights, presented a workshop at the Tennessee Conference on Volunteerism. What do human rights have to do with volunteering? This was the question posed and answered by Rev.
KOPANICA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA •
In June 2014, Scientology Volunteer Ministers Balkans Disaster Response Team in the Bosnia and Herzegovina village of Kopanica help a man salvage his farm after May’s devastating floods.
The damage caused by the May 2014 floods has been estimated at €1.3 billion in Bosnia and Herzegovina—more than the entire cost to that country by the 1990’s war. But to someone like Vlado, a man from the village of Kopanica, those figures were irrelevant—he was at risk of losing everything.
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA •
Volunteers from the Church of Scientology of Pretoria help protect youth in the South Africa township of Shoshunguve from the danger of drugs.
Volunteers from the Church of Scientology of Pretoria helped organize a park cleanup and drug education seminar July 20 in coordination with the Agape Youth Movement of Soshanguve to provide township youth the information they need to decide to live drug-free lives.