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Class of 2009.
“In the end, it is a human story. Thirty-one individuals, unique, of varying degrees of maturity, eager, hardworking, looking to do something, looking to do something of and apart from their individual humanity,” Andrew Smith, Class of 2010.
“I learned what it means to stare at destruction and find something greater than myself,” Sarah Wells, Class of 2011.
It’s hard to appreciate how much people are still suffering when the major media no longer reports on the amount of damage that New Orleans still has to this day. After coming back from the trip, many of my friends ask the same question, “Aren’t they done fixing it yet?” and it’s hard to blame them for saying this. Almost four years since the storm, the answer is a definitive NO. It’s a sad fact that New Orleans, a city rich with culture, still suffers. As one of my classmates puts it, “We cannot allow America and the world to forget that New Orleans is still in need and that all we can do should be done to help the city.”
How did 31 people help rebuild New Orleans? Physically, in a matter of two days, three houses were painted top to bottom, left to right Another house near the 9th Ward was in serious need of paint scraping, before applying the primer and final coat of paint, and inside the house the floor needed extensive work where the old carpet had molded over.
We knew we were helping a son who wanted his mother to return to her house, which
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