Scientology Volunteer Ministers Goodwill Tour Bringing Help to the People of Calcutta

In a city that has become synonymous with poverty, drugs, illiteracy and sexual trafficking, a group of young men and women who have trained as Scientology Volunteer Ministers are living examples of their motto — that "Something CAN be done about it!"

The Scientology Volunteer Ministers India Goodwill Tour, http://www.volunteerministers.org, first arrived in Calcutta in January 2006, to announce the publication of a series of the booklets based on the chapters of the Scientology Handbook, http://www.scientologyhandbook.org.

Mohammed Khalil Ullah adopted the Scientology Volunteer Ministers program in the work he has been doing to bring hope and help to the lives of the people of the Calcutta slums.

The task is enormous, with an estimated third of Calcutta's 14 million residents live in slums. And the likelihood of a child breaking away from the poverty he is born into is slim, with 41 percent of slum residents coming from families who have lived in slums for more than 30 years.

But Mr. Ullah Immediately recognizing the value and potential of the technology developed by L. Ron Hubbard and started implementing it into the philanthropic programs he has created for his city.

On learning about Study Technology, a methodology discovered and codified by L. Ron Hubbard to help anyone learn any subject, Ullah set up a ''free school'' in the slums, and implemented the study technology as part of the school's curriculum.

He has introduced thousands of people to the techniques of the Scientology Handbook over the past eight months, and has formed up a team of local Scientology Volunteer Ministers who have been put through training, to be able to carry on with the work when the Goodwill Tour moves on to the next city on its itinerary.

Mohammad frequently appears on television to let people know about the application of Scientology technology to various aspects of life and answer people's questions on the subject.

Now he and his group of Volunteer Ministers have another tool that will help them accomplish their goals for the city. In September, the booklets from the Scientology Handbook will be released in Bengali at the New Delhi Book Fair.

Sheena Chohan, a model and former Miss Calcutta, who is now a trained Scientology Volunteer Minister, is the spokesperson for the release these publications, which will make Scientology tools available to the 200 million people who speak Bengali as their native language.

Thirty years ago, L. Ron Hubbard created and introduced the Scientology Volunteer Ministers program with his essay titled Religious Influence in Society in which he said:

"If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he can do something about it. He can become a VOLUNTEER MINISTER and help civilize it, bring it conscience and kindness and love and freedom from travail by instilling into it trust, decency, honesty and tolerance."