Past Trip Logs: November 2006

We went down to New Orleans in November 2006 to work with Operation Blessing in the continuing effort to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina. If you've never gone down to help in the disaster relief, be sure to join us on our next trip. It'll blow your mind to see all the work that still needs to happen.

Background Info
Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast late August 2005. Hundreds of thousands of homes were devestated, whole neighborhoods were wiped out, cities were flooded... the destruction was of a scale few in the US have experienced. In November 2006, we sent a team down to help with the rebuilding effort, and what we found was that almost nothing has changed. Sure, there are FEMA trailers, the flood-waters have receded, and some businesses are opening, but still hundreds of thousands of homes remain destroyed and unopened since the hurricane.

Your Job Description
If you come with us on a trip to New Orleans, you'll be gutting homes for people who have no other way to do the work or pay for it to get done. You'll likely encounter rats, snakes, mold, mildew, rotted food, decayed furniture, and thousands of cockroaches. It'll be a dirty, stinky, exhausting job, but it'll change somebody's life forever, maybe even yours.