What is the involvement of Scientology in ethnic affairs?
The Church maintains a Department of Ethnic Affairs specifically to interact and work with ethnic minorities. One of the Church’s projects is to establish special educational programs in the inner city.
One such literacy project in Compton, California, has successfully turned drug abusers and gang members into responsible members of the community. The project has won endorsements from both community leaders and educators, and youth counselors have described it as nothing less than "heaven sent."
L. Ron Hubbard’s Study Technology is used in many countries to help students and teachers alike. In South Africa, these programs helped well over two million underprivileged black Africans improve their ability to study, well before the walls of apartheid came down or the world had even noticed. In the People’s Republic of China, more than 5,000 teachers and industrial managers have been trained in Study Technology.
Dianetics and Scientology organizations exist also in the African states of Ghana, Zaire, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Sierra Leone, and apply Scientology routinely to help their communities.
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