Changing Communities with Values: Giselle Lima’s Fight Against Crime in Panama

Season three of Hines On Air opens with host Matt Hines in Atlanta interviewing Giselle Lima, a Venezuelan-born Scientologist who moved to Spain and later Panama, where she began humanitarian work to address rising crime, drugs, and social decay.

Lima describes partnering with Panamanian community leaders and government agencies to distribute The Way to Happiness booklet—30,000 in a high-crime area and over 100,000 nationwide during carnival with police, army, and navy—reporting reduced crime and a safer carnival.

She also delivered seminars using Truth About Drugs and Youth for Human Rights materials to at-risk children and juvenile detainees, and collaborated with Christian chaplains. Lima additionally organized a 2024 religious freedom summit at the Latin American Parliament in Panama City with over 40 international speakers.