Zimbabwe

It started nine years ago, when concerned Scientologist, Anne Roberts, first traveled to Zimbabwe to put L. Ron Hubbard’s study technology into the educational system.

Zimbabwe is located in the southern regions of Africa, a country torn by political contention, a poor economy and high unemployment. Survival is difficult; the average life expectancy is only 36 years, largely due to widespread HIV infection, while more than eight million people face starvation.

Though Ms. Roberts had been training Zimbabwean educators for several years, they had been slow in moving toward a goal of training all 90,000 teachers in Zimbabwe—with under a thousand each year.

Ms. Roberts organized a team to speed the training of teachers in study technology. Her intention was to introduce successful one-day workshops that had been used in The Gambia, a small country on the northwest coast of Africa. To achieve this, representatives of Applied Scholastics (a secular educational organization utilizing the study technology developed by L. Ron Hubbard) presented the Permanent Secretary of Education in Zimbabwe, Mr. T.K. Tsodzo, with plans to implement these workshops in two regions of Zimbabwe. It was agreed that Applied Scholastics volunteers would train Zimbabwean educators to teach other teachers.

Under the leadership of Anne Roberts, the team instructed thirty Zimbabwean trainers in all the necessary skills to deliver one-day workshops to hundreds of teachers. Though the trainers couldn’t believe it was possible to deliver to that many teachers, they rose to the challenge and delivered seven days of workshops to 3,700 teachers.

The seminars addressed the very roots of educational turmoil, teaching the teachers how to help, manage and communicate with their students. More importantly, the teachers also learned how to help students remove barriers from their education.

With the implementation of L. Ron Hubbard’s study technology throughout Zimbabwe, the country now has a bright future ahead of it.

To learn more about study technology and Applied Scholastics, click here.