World Literacy Crusade
World Literacy Crusade (WLC) is a non-profit organization formed in 1992 by the Rev. Alfreddie Johnson that claims to fight illiteracy,[1] and is supported by the Church of Scientology.[2][3] The group uses "study technologies" and "drug rehabilitation technologies" developed by L. Ron Hubbard, the Church's founder.[4][5] It mostly operates in minority areas, providing classrooms and juvenile detention facilities with course packs, and holding special training sessions there.[6] These sessions mostly teach students how to learn by ensuring they fully understand the meaning of each word, through the use of dictionaries, and actual samples of the subject being studied.
WLC has been characterized as a "Scientology front group"[7][8] that has used its donations to spawn several other organizations that provided actual Scientology services that were billed to Medi-Cal as treatments for drug addiction.[9] In 2015 the executive director of WLC, Hanan Islam and her adult children were arrested for Medi-Cal fraud and insurance fraud for billing for this detox program.[10]
Other controversies
The LA Times reported in 2008 that about 100 protesters gathered outside of the World Literacy Crusade offices after being sold fake low cost housing vouchers for as much as $1500. Officials at WLC admitted to selling the free vouchers, but stated they did not know they were fake.[11] The Compton, California offices of the WLC housed a drug detox program using “dry heat sweat therapy” based on Scientology's Purification Rundown that claims illegal drugs can be "sweated out" of the body years after they have been ingested.[12] WLC has been promoted by celebrity Scientologists such as Isaac Hayes and Anne Archer.[2]
Notes
- ↑ World Literacy Crusade World Literacy Crusade -- homepage for WLC (accessed 2007-02-21)
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- ↑ Applied Scholastics WLC page, retrieved Jan 27 2017. http://www.appliedscholastics.org/schools-programs/world-literacy-crusade.html
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- ↑ Jeffrey Augustine, Dec 20 2015. http://tonyortega.org/2015/12/20/augustine-compton-scam-rehab-and-literacy-crusade-have-vanished-since-raid/
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References
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