New Orleans Survivor
Council’s New Bookmobile
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New Orleans
Survivor Council’s New Bookmobile |
Plans are under way to use the NOSC
Bookmobile to bring reading materials to New Orleans residents
displaced in FEMA trailer parks with no library access. |
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Reconstruction trainees prepare Old
Pathways Church in the Lower Ninth Ward to be the new headquarters of
the New Orleans Survivor Council, fall, 2006. Resident trainees
learned construction skills under two small grants through POC.
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Reconstruction training
program starts work on home of elderly Ninth Ward couple still living
in an isolated trailer park; fall, 2006
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Gutting Block Party,
July 29, 2006
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June 2006
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Volunteers help Baker
residents gut a home |
Survivor Village tent city
sets up at St. Bernard housing project |
Volunteers prepare for
cleaning up Florida housing project |
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Florida housing project
residents speak with the press |
Volunteers and residents
work in a home |
Helping to gut a house |
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May 2006
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New levees along the Lower
Ninth Ward: Built for category 3, to old standards |
Hampton and New York students helping with reconstruction in May |
New Orleans Survivors
Council, May 27 |
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Reading names of the dead
at Memorial Day levee service, May 29 |
Memorial Day levee walk,
May 29 |
Memorial Day levee walk,
May 29 |
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Homeowner expressed
determination in the Lower Ninth Ward |
Baker Trailer
Park /
Concentration Camp for Katrina survivors |
Security patrol at Baker
trailer park |
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Volunteers unload
computers donated to N.O. children by Cuba and Pastors for Peace |
Computer equipment donated
to N.O. Survivors' Council at Sanchez Center |
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April 2006
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House in Lower Ninth Ward |
People
arrive for Survivor
Council meeting |
NYC high school students arrive
at Survivor Council meeting |
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New York students arrive at
April 15 Survivor Council
meeting.
Behind them is the
school the Council is
cleaning
up and reclaiming. |
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Survivor Council is helping
organize the clean-up of
M.L. King school
in Lower
Ninth Ward |
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Contents of M.L. King school |
Young
volunteer helps clean
out MLK school in the Lower
Ninth Ward |
Survivor Council meets at
Sanchez Center in Lower
Ninth Ward |
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Survivor Council meets at
Sanchez Center in Lower
Ninth Ward |
Survivor Council meets at
Sanchez Center in Lower
Ninth Ward |
Survivor Council meets at
Sanchez Center in Lower
Ninth Ward |
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Residents consider agenda
at Survivor Council |
Residents consider agenda at
Survivor Council |
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December 2005
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Police on duty in fours
downtown |
Grocery
store in French Quarter |
Casinos opened within a
week |
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Lower Ninth Ward |
Lower
Ninth Ward |
Lower Ninth Ward: note
holes in roofs |
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Lower Ninth Ward |
Lower
Ninth Ward |
Lower
Ninth Ward |
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Lower
Ninth Ward |
Lower Ninth Ward - Gym |
Lower
Ninth Ward |
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Lower Ninth Ward: force of
water
demonstrated by bent
street sign |
Lower
Ninth Ward |
Lower
Ninth Ward |
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Lower
Ninth Ward |
Lower
Ninth Ward |
Lower
Ninth Ward |
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Lower
Ninth Ward |
Lower
Ninth Ward |
Lower
Ninth Ward |
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Lower
Ninth Ward |
Lower
Ninth Ward |
Lower on the Industrial
Canal |
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Levee Break Visible |
Broken end of Levee |
Broken end of Levee:
dumping
repair visible |
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This is what "protected"
the
residents of the Lower
Ninth! |
View of the Lower Ninth
Ward
from the broken Levee |
Destruction in path of
water
released by levee break |
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Destruction in path of
water
released by levee break |
Destruction in path of
water
released by levee break |
Looking along where levee broke:
note barge in the distance, which
broke through the levee
(beyond truck) |
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Organizers and
Volunteers gutting and reconstruction work.
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