These past few weeks, volunteers from The NOLA Tree worked tirelessly at a number of sites in the Lower NInth Ward.  Many of you have been asking for information about some of these New Orleans homeowners.  Who are they?  What is their story?  Well, here's a little about each of them ( Read more... )

Volunteers who travel to New Orleans often wonder, "how much can I really help?'

The answer: A LOT

But it's really up to the volunteer. How hard are YOU willing to work? How much are you really willing to give of yourself the week you're in the Crescent City

This past spring, a group of volunteers from Mount Saint Dominic Academy spent a ( Read more... )

I urge you to read Zeitoun by Dave Eggers.  It is the most important piece of non-fiction I've read in years, if not ever.

The following appeared in a recent blog posted by Clayton Cubitt.

In the days after Hurricane Katrina, thousands of American citizens were rounded up and imprisoned at a makeshift fenced-in holding area at the city’s bus station ( Read more... )