Kids Drawing Contest Promotes Drug-Free Lifestyle

On November 24, 2019, The Way to Happiness (TWTH) Association of Tampa Bay and the Foundation for a Drug-Free World (FDFW) Florida chapter held the first ever Tampa Bay Kids Drawing Contest on Fort Harrison Avenue to educate and promote a drug-free lifestyle to children.

Starting in the FDFW center—an international nonprofit anti-drug education organization—over two dozen children and parents were given a presentation on what a drug is and the negative effects that it can have on someone’s body. Following the presentation all kids were encouraged to sign the pledge to live drug-free.

Moving next door, to the TWTH Association of Tampa Bay’s center, attendees were introduced to The Way to Happiness, a non-religious moral code based wholly on common sense. Attendees were introduced to one of the 21 precepts of The Way to Happiness: Don’t Take Harmful Drugs, as part of the drawing contest.

Kids as young as 3 and as old as 11 years old drew their ideas on how to be drug-free from what they learned about the harmful effects that drugs have on the body. Winners of their respective age group won a blue ribbon for first place.

“We thought the drawing contest would be a fun way to teach this precept to young children,” said Iván Batalla, the deputy executive director of TWTH Association of Tampa Bay. “Partnering with the Foundation for a Drug-Free World to help educate the kids seemed to be a perfect fit.”

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About Foundation for a Drug-Free World:

The Foundation for a Drug-Free World is a nonprofit organization that educates youth and the community on the truth about drugs so they can make the right decision to live drug-free. The Church of Scientology is a sponsor of the program making it possible for the Foundation to provide educational materials at no cost to educators, law enforcement and the community. Humanitarian and founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, said, “The single most destructive element present in our current culture is drugs.”

About The Way to Happiness Association of Tampa Bay:

The Way to Happiness book was written and published by L. Ron Hubbard in 1981 as a nonreligious, common-sense guide to better living. Its purpose is to help arrest the current moral decline in society and restore integrity and trust to humankind. It 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. Millions around the world have received the materials free of charge thanks to the continued sponsorship of the Church of Scientology. The Way to Happiness holds the Guinness World Record as the single most-translated nonreligious book and fills the moral vacuum in an increasingly materialistic society.