Celebrate the New Year by looking forward to another year for you, your friends, family and those you don’t even know but pass on the highway or streets where you drive. Don’t drink and drive.
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Meet a Scientologist—Peter Hayward’s African Safaris Combine Luxury And Adventure With Sustainability
December 29, 2011 By 1 Comment
In a video featured on the Scientology Video channel, Peter Hayward credits L. Ron Hubbard administrative technology with the success of his safari operation.
Scientologist Peter Hayward, founder of Hayward’s Grand Safari Events & Expeditions, is passionate about preserving the natural resources and culture of his native Africa. His five-star luxury safaris inspire global government and business leaders and celebrities to champion sustainability.
“If one redirects the huge amount of finance that companies are willing to spend to access exotic overnight destinations, and then add this to the money spent on prank-filled activities and no-point entertainment to spice up the event for the bored delegates, one has the makings and the budget available to kick-start a remote village’s economy and still provide the participants with an authentic wildlife camp experience,” says Hayward.
Chairman of the Breeding Endangered Species Trust and active in rhino preservation since the early 1990s, Hayward, 54, brings civic, industry and cultural leaders to protected southern African rhino preservation projects. They assist officially appointed veterinary surgeons in their preservation work, including applying tracking devices and obtaining blood for DNA testing. Other tours invite VIP groups to become involved in off-the-grid villages where sustainability is part of the fabric of the community.
The impact of this approach is clear in the statement of one corporate executive who participated in a Hayward’s sustainable safari.
“We cannot continue wasting money on silly pastimes that in no way enhance the event and then leave behind unfavorable impact and a legacy of poor sustainability,” he wrote. “If we do not protect our environment or factually assist those that are the custodians of it, there will be no such thing as tourism in the future.”
Hayward’s clients gain hands-on knowledge of Africa while partaking in the luxury of a world-class hotel. From the deserts of Namibia to the beaches of the Indian Ocean, in a wild game preserve or alongside a remote African village, Hayward’s tented safari camps provide guests every amenity, from five-star 12-course dinners and entertainment to a full-service spa and hair salon.
Using the administrative technology developed by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard, in 1999 Hayward transformed a once-failing family safari business into an unqualified success. Within five years, Hayward’s Grand Safari Events & Expeditions had won the Best Event In The World Award from EIBTM—an annual global meetings and events exhibition—followed by the 2004/2005 Federated Hospitality Association of Southern Africa’s “Imvelo” award for responsible tourism.
Hayward learned about Scientology from a copy of the Scientology Handbook his sister left at his house.
“I opened it and started reading. I was blown away,” he says. “Being involved in working with execs on a team-building and productivity module, it was like discovering the goldmines of Shiva—a treasure cove. I apply Scientology every minute of the day to get things done in my safari operations.”
Through his use of this technology, Hayward has created a thriving socially conscious business. By encouraging leaders to learn sustainable practices from the people of Africa, and experience the beauty of the continent and its animals firsthand, he aims to preserve these precious resources so that they may be enjoyed by generations to come.
Watch the Peter Hayward video on the Scientology video channel atwww.Scientology.org.
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The popular “Meet a Scientologist” profiles on the Church of Scientology International Video Channel at Scientology.org now total more than 200 broadcast-quality documentary videos featuring Scientologists from diverse locations and walks of life. The personal stories are told by Scientologists who are educators, teenagers, skydivers, a golf instructor, a hip-hop dancer, IT manager, stunt pilot, mothers, fathers, dentists, photographers, actors, musicians, fashion designers, engineers, students, business owners and more.
A digital pioneer and leader in the online religious community, in April 2008 the Church of Scientology became the first major religion to launch its own official YouTube Video Channel, which has now been viewed by millions of visitors.
Meet a Scientologist—Acknowledging a Quarter of a Century of Committed Service
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Scientology Volunteer Minister, LPN and EMT Ayal Lindeman earned the 2011 Freedom Medal through his exemplary service to mankind.
At the 27th anniversary of the International Association of Scientologists in October 2011, Ayal Lindeman was awarded the IAS Freedom Medal for his humanitarian work as a Scientology Volunteer Minister.
He began serving the community as a teenager, training in Red Cross advanced first aid. Five years later, in 1976, when the Scientology Volunteer Ministers program launched, Lindeman was among the first to join the team—a responsibility he has embraced ever since.
In 1992, transforming this calling into a career, he trained as an emergency medical technician (EMT) and in 2009 as a licensed practical nurse (LPN). And despite the pressing demands of career and family, for the past 20 years Lindeman has been on call as a member of a local volunteer ambulance corps.
The events of September 11, 2001, were a wake-up call for Volunteer Ministers the world over.
“As Volunteer Ministers we have been given tools to help others and the only thing asked in return was to put them to use,” says Lindeman. “And that didn’t end with the smoke or the debris. It continued.”
With the support and backing of his wife Devorah, over the past 10 years Lindeman has responded to 10 major disasters as part of the Scientology Volunteer Minister response team.
In 2004, in the wake of Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne, Lindeman was part of the Volunteer Ministers team that earned a special commendation from the 124th Infantry’s Bravo Company and a Points of Light “Hurricane Heroes” award from Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Everything the Volunteer Ministers learned that season was put to the test the following year when Hurricane Katrina blasted into Louisiana, followed by Hurricane Rita several weeks later. And just as that project was winding down, they were called back into action when Hurricane Wilma, the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, hit Florida.
But nothing Lindeman and the other Volunteer Ministers experienced prior to January 2010 prepared them for the Haiti earthquake. By the hour, the death toll mounted for want of resources to cope with the hundreds of thousands injured. Top priority was to bolster the medical infrastructure with trained professionals who could provide the needed care. Lindeman helped contact doctors, nurses and EMTs, many of them Creole-speaking Haitian-Americans, to fill the first two of five humanitarian flights chartered by the Church of Scientology. He then boarded one of the flights himself.
Arriving in Haiti he learned that patients were dying in General Hospital critical care wards simply because of personnel shortages. Lindeman organized a team of Volunteer Ministers to do whatever it took to reverse this situation.
“I’m pretty tough, but this place drove me to tears,” says Lindeman.
“Pulling 18- to 20-hour shifts for days on end, whatever it took, we were true to our pledge—no other patients died for lack of care.”
In March 2011, when a magnitude 9 earthquake triggered a 40-meter tsunami that damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plants, Volunteer Ministers from countries around the world signed on to help. Lindeman, specialist trained to deal with nuclear catastrophes, was one of the first to arrive from abroad, joining local Scientology Volunteer Ministers in the Japan Disaster Response. They assisted in the search and rescue effort, helped organize and staff shelters, and provided Scientology assists, techniques developed by L. Ron Hubbard that address the spiritual and emotional factors in stress and trauma.
In launching the Volunteer Minister program, L. Ron Hubbard wrote, “A Volunteer Minister does not shut his eyes to the pain, evil and injustice of existence. Rather, he is trained to handle these things and help others achieve relief from them and new personal strength as well.”
Ayal Lindeman has carried out this mandate for 25 years in the service of his fellow man.
To learn about more about the Scientology Volunteer Ministers and view videos of Scientologists and the work they are doing to improve society, visit www.Scientology.org.
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The Scientology Volunteer Minister program was initiated by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard in 1976. There are now hundreds of thousands of people trained in the skills of a Volunteer Minister across 185 nations.
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