CLEARWATER, Fla., Feb. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On Sunday January 28th, volunteers of The Way to Happiness Association (TWTH) of Tampa Bay, an organization sponsored by the Church of Scientology, went door-to-door in the Clearwater neighborhood of the Gateway showing neighbors a graph of the 60% crime rate drop over the past two years and distributing The Way to Happiness, a non-religious moral code booklet. For the past two years, TWTH volunteers working with neighbors and their leaders have done clean-ups and distributed TWTH booklets in the Gateway in order to address the problem of crime there. Police have been cracking down on prostitution and drug distribution that were rampant in the Gateway.
“I thought we should share the good news of the results of all of us working together to address the problem of crime in this neighborhood,” said Kelly Pomerantz, the President of the TWTH Association of Tampa Bay. “The crime rate drop graph brought smiles to our neighbors’ faces because they know they are making a difference.”
According to TWTH, volunteers have also used the booklets in crisis zones to bring calm and help quell violence. To reduce gang activity, The Way to Happiness volunteers in Los Angeles removed graffiti from 130 buildings while passing out thousands of copies of the booklet. In Iraq, two volunteers delivered seminars to more than 2,500 people and distributed 30,000 copies of the booklet. In Israel, 15,000 The Way to Happiness lectures and workshops have been attended by 350,000 people of all ages.
For more information on the work of The Way to Happiness Association of Tampa Bay, neighbors are invited to tour their headquarters in downtown Clearwater at 33 North Fort Harrison Ave, call 727-467-6961 or send an email to info.fl@TWTH.org.
The Way to Happiness
The international network of volunteers and supporters of The Way to Happiness now spans 186 nations.
In many cities, The Way to Happiness volunteers have implemented the precept “Safeguard and Improve Your Environment” by undertaking cleanup efforts to remove bottles, cans and trash from their neighborhoods.
Thousands of schools have participated in “Set a Good Example” contests, in which youth take an active role in building responsibility, competence and trust. An independent review of The Way to Happiness programs in schools found that 90 percent of participating teachers noticed a positive change in their students’ attitudes.
The Way to Happiness volunteers, dedicated to improving moral standards and creating a positive impact on the community, distribute booklets everywhere.
The Way to Happiness was written by L. Ron Hubbard and is available in 112 languages, with some 115 million copies distributed in 186 nations. The campaign to distribute the book has been embraced by more than 257,000 groups and individuals. It held the Guinness World Record as the single most-translated nonreligious book and fills the moral vacuum in an increasingly materialistic society.
For more information
Contact: Tanja Cranton
727-467-6961
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