Sunday, March 25, 2007
Musician's Village New Orleans
Put in a day at Habitat For Humanity here in New Orleans lower 9th ward, one of the worst areas hit by Katrina and sadly, I found it pretty disappointing viewing the organization from the prospect of joining on a managerial level (project manager).
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I ran into someone last night who's been with them for the past year who described the essence of the problem. Apparently it's real, and solvable, but it will be difficult to bring about change without the threat of disclosure. We'll see what happens in the next couple of months.
But the efforts of the volunteers were tremendous. Beautiful, caring people building cute, simple homes.
Here are some pics of both:
(click on photos to enlarge)
I ran into someone last night who's been with them for the past year who described the essence of the problem. Apparently it's real, and solvable, but it will be difficult to bring about change without the threat of disclosure. We'll see what happens in the next couple of months.
But the efforts of the volunteers were tremendous. Beautiful, caring people building cute, simple homes.
Here are some pics of both:
