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Scientology Volunteer Ministers in Tamil Nadu, India Tackling Literacy
The tsunamis in late December 2004 devastated Pondicherry, India and the other towns and villages of the Tamil Nadu province. When French Scientologists Marc and Prisca Arrighi heard of the disaster they packed up their entire family and took off to join the relief effort. Little did they expect that two and a half years later they would still be traveling from village to village in the region helping people wherever they go.
On their blog at http://benevoles-inde.com, the Arrighis explain why they offer this training.
“Past ineffective attempts at improving the quality of education over the last few decades raise an important question: why has there been so little improvement despite so much attention being given to the situation—with millions spent each year, why has it not improved?
“The answer is quite simple. All these recent efforts have been trying to solve the wrong problem.
“The bottom line on all scholastic failures can be found in one fundamental factor: no one has ever taught children how to study.
Prisca Arrighi describes what she and the Volunteer Ministers team have been doing over the past few weeks.
“Schools here have been closed for vacation. But we continued our work, delivering our seminars in orphanages and villages.
“We have between 40 and 60 children in each seminar, and for three days we teach them basic information on study. What is incredible is that these village children, who are not required by school authorities to attend, have been returning after each meal, throughout the day, come back the next day, and are still here two days later, just because they enjoy the seminar and want to be here!”
Here is what one of the students had to say about this seminar:
“For the past three days I’ve been taking a seminar organized by the Scientology Volunteer Ministers on study technology. I have in fact learned a new way to learn. I studied different barriers to study and what the solutions are to each of them. It has been so useful! And I really enjoyed myself throughout the entire three days. Everything was taught step by step, so you could understand it all fully. I will absolutely be able to use this in the future! And I can use what I learned to help my friends and family who have study problems. Thank you Mr. L. Ron Hubbard for this technology.”
Find out more about this at the Scientology Volunteer Ministers website: http://www.volunteerministers.org/news/articles/35.html
