Rebuilding Together Responds: Rebuild 1000!
Katrina and Rita Homes to be Rebuilt

Since hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Rebuilding Together has pledged to rebuild 1,000 hurricane-damaged Gulf houses.

To date, we have:
• Repaired and rebuilt 190 houses and nonprofit facilities in the Gulf
• Renovated and repaired 11 homes outside the Gulf for those displaced by the hurricanes
• Engaged almost 5,000 volunteers who have donated over 61,000 hours for labor with a market value of more than $3 million, doing
repairs with a total market value of over $4 million dollars*

To date, Rebuilding Together has received a lead donation of $1.5 million from Countrywide Financial Services, and additional support from AARP, The Avon Foundation, BP America, Conoco Phillips, Fannie Mae, Habitat for Humanity, National Roofing Contractors Association, Order of Malta, and Shell Oil.

Rebuilding Together is also partnering with the Marriott New Orleans and the Plumbing Heating and Cooling Contractors Association on the Rebuild 1000 project.

However, there is much more to be done. RT Pasadena board member Kent Lee spent two weeks each in 2006 and 2007 rebuilding New Orleans homes. "There has been a great deal of progress made, but in parts of the 9th Ward many neighborhoods still have block after block of collapsed houses; those neighborhoods still look like the disaster zones shown in photos from November 2005," said Lee.

In 2008, Rebuilding Together is organizing one-week rebuilding efforts in the Gulf in every month except July and August. If you can spare a week of your time, and can pay for your airfare to the Gulf, please sign up to help; it will forever change the lives of homeowners you help, and you will never forget the experience.

The 2008 project schedule is as follows:

To sign up for a Gulf Coast rebuild, please complete the online volunteer form at www.rebuildingwithcountrywide.org/rebuild1000.

For more information, contact Alan Sisco at:

Alan Sisco
Rebuilding Together
1536 16th Street, NW
Washington DC 20036

800.473.4229

alan_sisco@rebuildingtogether.org

Rebuilding Together has rehabilitated 93,000 houses nationwide since 1988 and has delivered over $905 million in market value work. For more information, contact Rebuilding Together, 1536 Sixteenth St., N.W., Washington D.C. 20036 or go to www.rebuildingtogether.org and click on the Volunteer Web page link at the bottom of the page for Gulf Coast
online signup and volunteer information

*Statistical information from Rebuilding Together Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction / What We Do webpage.

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