The Lower 9th Ward Village is a community-driven, community-led, nonprofit 501(c)3 organization and neighborhood center based in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana. The main goal of the Village is to bring together the entire Lower 9th Ward and to empower community members to be self-sufficient and to sustain an equitable quality of life. The Village focuses on connecting the elderly and youth, with services and providing care and guidance from the community as a whole. It takes a village…
On every corner on every street houses like this are still board up. It was a very eerie feeling as we drove to our work site to see how much of this neighborhood is still devastated even after 5 years.
As you will read in other blogs, today our task was to clear a double wide lot that has not been touched since August of 2005 when the homeowner was last there. Here we are clearing out the cement foundation bricks as well as trees that we cut down. I will post more before photos as we upload them so you can see what 5 hours of weed pulling, cement block carrying, and tree cutting down can do!
On every corner on every street houses like this are still board up. It was a very eerie feeling as we drove to our work site to see how much of this neighborhood is still devastated even after 5 years.
As you will read in other blogs, today our task was to clear a double wide lot that has not been touched since August of 2005 when the homeowner was last there. Here we are clearing out the cement foundation bricks as well as trees that we cut down. I will post more before photos as we upload them so you can see what 5 hours of weed pulling, cement block carrying, and tree cutting down can do!
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