Operation Home Delivery - rebuilding New Orleans - Carter - Habitat

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http://www.habitat.org/videogallery/video_upload/Katrina_PSA_stream/Katrina_Carter_350.wmv

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AMERICUS, Ga. (Sept. 3, 2005) – Habitat for Humanity International is launching “Operation Home Delivery,” a three-phase response to help provide assistance and rebuilding opportunities in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

"First responders are providing immediate aid right now, but, soon, efforts will be moving toward helping people rebuild their lives and their homes,” said Jonathan Reckford, Habitat’s chief executive officer. “We are working now to make sure we have just such a plan in place when conditions are at a point that rebuilding can get under way.”

Specifically, the plan focuses, first, on helping Habitat affiliates that were hardest hit by Katrina restore some level of service. Then Habitat will seek to serve as a catalyst with other organizations, governments, corporations, foundations, etc., to bring people together to talk about low-income housing and recovery on a scale that Habitat alone would be unable to do, and third, to establish and implement a “home in a box project.”



http://www.habitat.org/disaster/2005/katrina/

[EFerrari]

1. Thanks for posting this. I have to bookmark it for Feet Up Monday.

I was thinking that I could go over there in February and wack some nails and stuff But that would be the earliest and would depend on setting up a support system here for my family while I'm gone. It would feel really good though, after all this helpless feeling.

:kick:

2. Good luck

It seems that is what is needed most is quick housing. Many hands can do work so fast.

[EFerrari]

3. Yes. And those of us who can drive nails, hang drywall and wire

circuits need to get off our remotes. While we push this criminal misAdministration, my vote is to throw everything at this, too. Including our saber saws.
:hi:

/dingdang typin'