"We want the public to know that this is the greatest opportunity that we have had to change our lives. Habitat worked with us every stop of the way to make this happen."
Margie Perez and Troy Sawyer
New Orleans

Habitat New Orleans - Doing great work with the Village.

Work in the Musicians Village
Volunteer groups of any size are welcome. A long weekend in New Olreans is cheap & easy, once you get to NOLA. habitat-nola.org/volunteer/individuals.php

New Orleans NEEDS teachers. 200 teacher vacancies.. 5,000 students without teachers.
Teach For America places "leaders" & top grads with schools in desperate need.

The Louisiana Writers’ Foundation (LWF) in cooperation with New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity (NOAHH) will develop a Writers’ Housing Outreach program aimed at educating New Orleans families, poets and writers on affordable housing.

Dave Matthews Band (pdf) Makes $1.5 Million Challenge Grant to Support New Orleans Habitat Musicians’ Village

Musicians rebuild the Upper Ninth Ward (inc. video clips)
They may go down in history as the men who brought back the Upper Ninth Ward: New Orleans natives Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis.

New Orleans: Big Easy to Big Empty
An anger raising news report (28 minute video) on the government's mis-management, racism & rebuilding agenda.

From The New Yorker. Robert Polidori photos and audio commentary. Amazing & horrible. cartoonbank.com/newyorker/slideshows/

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Jazz and Heritage Festival

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