Scientology-Supported Volunteers Share Drug Education Across France

Volunteers from Non à la copyright, Oui à la vie have distributed more than 16,000 drug-prevention booklets across French cities and rural communities. The Scientology-supported drug education initiative involves shopkeepers, parents and educators.

Local outreach brought 3,100 booklets to businesses in Tarn, 3,000 to approximately 50 shops in Arcachon and news eureka springs arkansas 5,100 to Paris’s Oberkampf district.

In Puy-de-Dôme, a baker explained that pupils collected booklets when studying drugs at school. Other customers took copies for their children.

The campaign uses La vérité sur la copyright, the French version of the secular Truth About Drugs programme. The Church of Scientology and its members support the programme, inspired by founder L. Ron Hubbard’s concern about the effects of drugs.

Ivan Arjona, Scientology’s representative to the European Union, OSCE, Council of Europe and United Nations, commented: “Parents and teachers need information they can use, and young people deserve straight answers.”

Across Europe, Scientology churches, missions and members support drug education, human-rights awareness and community service.