Since the President of South Africa officially announced the lockdown over a 100 days ago. A Midrand based Non-profit organization known as the Scientology Volunteer Ministers decided to assist the country with sanitization and education during the span of the pandemic.
Today, the NPO has managed to get 205 partnerships with various groups such as provincial government departments including Roads and Transport, Home Affairs, Social development and more, hundreds of shelters for the vulnerable such as those for elderlies, disabled, orphans and homeless, Metropolitan Police, all Gauteng Municipalities and Emergency Services, taxis, clinics, hospitals and more to protect the country during the pandemic.
Starting by sanitizing their own Churches first, Scientology Volunteer Ministers soon found themselves overwhelmed with requests for help and having to plan how to cover all the demands – mostly at their own cost.
“We immediately got to work,” said Sandile Hlayisi, Public Affairs Director for the Volunteer Ministers. “And very soon, the calls started to come in for assistance and partnerships were signed.” Hlayisi stressed that their priority became helping those who cover essential services such as government offices, police stations, municipalities, hospitals and clinics and eventually the taxis.
A JMPD Police Officer from Soweto said, “Your sanitizing work is even more important now because the lockdown rules are being loosened up. This means more people are out and about. We feel we are more and more at risk when we go out. So you coming to sanitize makes us feel so much safer and better about the current situation. You know, we can see how important it is to maintain the sanitizing.”
An official the Randfontein Department of Education commented, “I really have to take off my hat to you. You are doing all this on a voluntary basis and other people would charge a lot of money without even doing a good job. You are here on a voluntary basis doing a totally professional job! I am extremely grateful.”
An assistant at Basic Education said, “This is so touching. You serve places who really appreciate what you are doing. May the Almighty bless you and give you strength as you go place to place.”
The Scientology Volunteer Ministers have sanitized more than 19,578 buildings, mostly in Gauteng but more recently as well in KZN, Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Free State.
They have sanitized 577,970 taxis, ambulances, fire trucks and police cars, with their highest record being to have sanitized a little over 13,000 taxis in one day.
Their strength comes from the Volunteer Minister technology written by L. Ron Hubbard for South Africa more than 50 years ago.
They have so far provided 354,500 hours of volunteer work to the service of their community, working 15 hours a day, seven days a week since the lockdown was announced.
