COMMUNITY SERVICE DAY
Join ILTCI for
A Community Service Day
In New Orleans
As part of ILTCI conference 2010, ILTCI members are planning a Community Service Day in New Orleans’s Lower 9th Ward. The Lower Ninth Ward was one of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina with more than 80% of the houses damaged or destroyed by FEMA assessment standards. Because of the extent of the damage, the area was not open for residents to return and rebuild until May 2006, seven months after Katrina.
With he help of volunteers from all over the country, the lower Ninth Ward remains engaged in a sustainable, resilient regeneration of the community. Through the coordination and support of the Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development (CSED). ILTCI participants interested in volunteering will be able to join in this process.
ILTCI participants interested in volunteering in the Lower Ninth Ward will have a choice of group activities, that may include:
• Working in a community garden
• Visiting elderly homebound residents and helping them with tasks around the home
• Working on a home rebuilding project such as painting.
There will be two (2) volunteer times for Community Service work. ILTCI participants will be able to volunteer for two half days:
• Saturday, March 13, 2010 from 1:00PM-5:00PM and/or
• Sunday, March 14, from 9:00 AM-1:00PM
A $70.00 credit will be applied to the Saturday night stay at the Sheraton Hotel for all volunteers.
Prior to moving to the volunteer site, volunteers will meet at the CSED offices at 12:30 PM on Saturday and 8:30 AM on Sunday for a helpful orientation to the community and the work. CSED's Offices are located at: 5130 Chartres St., New Orleans.
The mission and purpose of the Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development's (CSED) is to stimulate civic engagement and restorative rebuilding, repopulate, sustain natural systems, assist community leadership and preserve resources in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward neighborhoods. CSED's goal is re-creation and repopulation of a strong community mindful of its history, resources and vulnerabilities as active, engaged, resilient, prosperous, energy independent and beautiful as possible. The CSED is a project of the Holy Cross Neighborhood Association.
To learn more about the activities of the CSED and what they are doing to bring back the community, please go to www.helpholycross.org.
