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Trip to New Orleans |
How you can help! |
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If you've been moved by these pictures
and the stories from our trip, maybe you would like to help too!
There's a real easy way to do that:
Here are three groups that
we worked with because of our trip. Each is doing great work to
help people return with their families to the city. Your
surprise check in the mail will be more than tangible help, it will be
a morale boost!
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Common Ground in particular is actively
serving the poorest and hardest hit communities in the 9th ward. |
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Common Ground
1415 Franklin Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117
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The Holy Cross Neighborhood Association,
named after the prominent Catholic high school in the neighborhood, is
doing what it can to maintain the community that drew together 10
years ago through volunteer efforts to build the playground that our
group worked on. |
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HCNA, c/o Pam Dashiell, president
2509 Gov. Nichols St
New Orleans, LA 70119
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And Ben Franklin High School is one of
the few public schools in New Orleans to have been able to reopen this
year. As a newly-created charter school, it relies on funding
outside of the normal public school system - private donations make a
huge difference for the dedicated staff who have kept this school
functioning in the chaos that still pervades the city's
infrastructure. |
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Ben Franklin Alumni
Association
2001 Leon C. Simon Drive
New Orleans, LA 70122
(Make checks out to the Franklin
Alumni Matching Fund Drive, every dollar sent will go directly to
the school with no fees or overhead.)
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And Thank You! |
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Links to follow |
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Our
story in the words of the kids
The playground before and after
Cleaning up the playground
End of the first day
Working on the "Bronco"
The last day
Scenes of the nearby devastation
How you can help!
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