On Saturday evening, our tough team of ten returned safely back to New York after a full week of physical labor. Their days were spent in the hot and humid New Orleans sun re-building a house on Delachaise Street in the Broadmoor neighborhood, NW in the French Quarter. While it is hard to believe that seven years post Katrina there is still work to be done, according to trip members, the harvest is still plenty and the workers few. While the rest of the country has largely forgotten the devestation and tragedy of Katrina, FAPC continues to demonstrate a testimony of faithfulness, responding year after year, to the same neighborhood and people.
I can’t say enough about how much I respect the folks who participated. In many cases they were assigned tasks they had never done before and they tackled them with enthusiasm and perseverance. The work consisted of ceramic tiling of kitchen flooring, installing pre-finished flooring with pneumatic staplers and nail guns, doing interior and exterior painting, installing doors and then the wood trim and baseboard. We are already talking about next year.
- Tim Eddy, trip leader
A New Orleans Police Cruiser patrols the Ninth Ward Florida Projects surveying rebuilding efforts – 5 years after Katrina.
(Photo by Linda Davidson/ The Washington Post)
Nothing says New Orleans better than a street performance! (Or wait … is that New York?)
