The Scientology Volunteer Ministers Covid-19 Disaster Response program has been active throughout South Africa during the lock-down. They have stood in solidarity with the President and the leadership of South Africa since the beginning of this pandemic.
Putting their lives on the line to help mitigate the spread of Covid-19 in Gauteng, KZN, Western Cape and Eastern Cape. They work to assist those on the front lines as well as the most vulnerable.
Since the 14th of March 2020 to this day, over 260 Volunteer Ministers have invested over 173, 500 volunteer hours to decontaminate and disinfect more than 6 770 buildings of essential and emergency services, totaling 9, 248, 348 square meters of spaces decontaminated. They have decontaminated and disinfected over 121 955 essential services vehicles including busses, police vehicles, army vehicles, emergency service vehicles and taxis.
In addition, they have distributed over 400,000 How to keep Yourself & Others Well booklets empowering hundreds of thousands with effective hygiene education in English, Zulu and Sesotho.
The value of their contribution based on industry standard costing rate (R10 per square meter) of full deep decontamination totals R 119,619,720.
Sandile Hlayisi, Public Affairs Director for the Scientology Volunteer Ministers is happy to see that the work being done is helpful to others. But he adds, “There is so much more to be done and we need to reach so many more. We want to continue to protect our people while contributing as much as we can to the solidarity fund because we are all in this together”.
