June 8 marks Phase I in New York City's reopening. For three months, the
city has been battling COVID-19. And Harlem was one of the
neighborhoods that suffered the most infections and casualties. Rev.
Cleveland Polite, President of the Church of Scientology Harlem, describes the impact the virus had on his community.‹
œNew York was the epicenter of this whole pandemic in the U.S., he
says. œWe've been hit much harder than anywhere else and the effects are
much more real, so I'm working hard to help people avoid that fate. But while officials are warning that a second and even a third wave
of the virus is inevitable, Rev. Polite has reason to hope ” and he's
taking action to turn that hope into a certainty. œFortunately, our parishioners have been safe, he says, œand that's
because of what we've been applying. Our church made the decision to
ensure we stopped delivering in-person religious services at the very
beginning of all of this. Our staff has been working from home,
contacting individual parishioners to ensure they are safe and applying
prevention. He is referring to a series of booklets available at the How to Stay Well Prevention Resource Center on the Scientology website: How to Keep Yourself & Others Well, How to Protect Yourself and Others with a Mask and Gloves and How to Prevent the Spread of Illness with Isolation. These,
along with charts and infographics, can be read online or downloaded.
More than a dozen brief videos illustrate the key data in the booklets.
And it is all available in 20 languages making it easy to understand
what a virus is, how it spreads, and the actions anyone can take to
protect themselves and their families. His congregation has come through the pandemic without a problem and
Rev. Polite and other church staff and parishioners wanted to reach out
in the neighborhood to make sure that Harlem reopens safe and sound. œOur church put out these booklets back in early March to get in
front of this and our community partners have expressed how grateful
they are that we've made this material available to them as they didn't
have any informational resources. The resources that existed weren't
getting to them, and many people didn't know what to do," says Polite. œOn a personal level, I love the booklets because they helped me
understand what I should do to protect myself. I was going to the store
with a mask and gloves before I saw anyone else doing it, and it gave me
peace of mind to know I was doing everything possible to stay safe for
my family, friends, my church and the parishioners who rely on me. In preparation for Harlem's reopening, teams of Volunteer Ministers
gathered at the Church of Scientology Harlem to load up with boxes of
booklets. The church outfitted all the volunteers with protective
jumpsuits, jackets, hats, masks and gloves and made these booklets
available in self-contained displays that can be put on the counters of
businesses or placed at the checkout stand or the reception area of a
clinic or company. People were eager to get these booklets into the hands of their customers. œWe walked into one shop and the manager literally grabbed the boxes
right out of our hands, said one of the volunteers. œHe put them in the
most prominent location in the shop so everyone entering could get
one. œInformation is always important, said the owner of one of the
businesses. œWithout knowledge, people can perish. Giving this
information out can prevent some of these tragedies that we have been
having. It is a big deal that you are doing this. Worldwide distribution of these booklets began approximately a month
ago and is ongoing in communities around every Scientology church and
mission across the globe. The Church of Scientology International Dissemination and Distribution Center made
this possible by printing five million copies of Stay Well booklets.
The three booklets may also be read and downloaded from the How to Stay Well Prevention Resource Center on the Scientology website along with more than a dozen public service announcements. The Church of Scientology Volunteer Ministers program is
a religious social service created in the mid-1970s by Scientology
founder L. Ron Hubbard. It constitutes one of the largest and most
visible international independent relief forces. The Volunteer
Minister's mandate is to be œa person who helps his fellow man on a
volunteer basis by restoring purpose, truth and spiritual values to the
lives of others. Source - https://www.newswire.com/news/scientologists-take-action-to-help-harlem-stay-well-21158435
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