Hope reclaimed!
This
week, a brass band and 150 people lead the way for Gloria Mouton to open the door on her newly-rebuilt home.
“It’s a beautiful thing to know that these people in the world will give from
their busy schedules to help someone like me,” Mouton said. “It just sends a warm feeling in my body every time
I walk into this house and see the progress they made.”
Mouton’s
home represented more than a dozen homes Church World Service helped rebuild in the New Orleans East community of Little Woods.
CWS brought together 10 of its partner agencies in disaster response
to focus on rehabilitating homes in a single neighborhood. In all, more than 500 volunteers from 27 U.S. states
and Canada came to New Orleans to help rebuild the homes. CARE selected homeowners in need who would be in the project.
“This isn’t just 12 homes, it’s 12 homes in just four weeks repaired,” CWS
Executive Director and CEO, the Rev. John McCullough said. “It shows how much we can accomplish
as people of faith when we work together.”
Click here to learn more about Little Woods.
Click here to download & print your volunteer forms before coming to Little Woods.
Neighborhood:
New Orleans is an ecumenical effort to return a dozen families back to their homes in an forgotten area destroyed by
Hurricane Katrina.
Neighborhood: New Orleans featured in the Times-Picayune!
Click here to read Bruce Nolan's story on the Little Woods project.
