[StBernard] Students to Spend Spring Break Rebuilding New Orleans (3/4/2007)

[Westley Annis]

Anybody have an idea about which church they will be working on?
 
Jim


 

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	Students to Spend Spring Break Rebuilding New Orleans (3/4/2007) 
	
	Ten Holy Family University students will fly to New Orleans March 4
to help
	rebuild homes and a church in St. Bernard Parish, which was
devastated by
	Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. 
	
	Holy Family students will join up to 300 other college students from
across
	the nation working to rebuild communities in New Orleans during
spring break
	as part of Habitat for Humanity's Collegiate Challenge program
	(www.habitat-nola.org). 
	
	Holy Family students will remain in New Orleans through March 10 and
will be
	chaperoned by Assistant Director of Activities and Wellness Ashley
Sbarbaro
	and Professor Megan Meyer. 
	
	While working in the St. Bernard community, the Holy Family students
will
	lodge at Camp Hope, an elementary school building that was converted
into
	temporary lodging just outside of New Orleans. 
	
	At least 1,836 people were killed by the hurricane and resulting
flood that
	destroyed 80 percent of the city, according to published reports.
After 17
	months, the region still struggles to recover. 
	
	Students are looking forward to playing their part in the rebuilding
effort
	and learning first-hand of the lives changed by this historic
natural
	disaster.