| 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:
DATE |
LOCATION |
| March |
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| Sunday, March 9 - Sat. March 15 |
New Orleans |
| Sunday, March 16 - Sat. March 22 |
Calcasieu |
| May |
|
Sunday, May 25 - Sat. May 31 |
Acadiana |
June |
|
Sunday, June 8 - Sat. June 14 |
Calcasieu |
Sunday, June 15 - Sat. June 21 |
New Orleans |
September |
|
Sunday, Sept. 21 - Saturday. Sept. 27 |
Acadiana |
October |
|
Sunday, Oct. 19 - Sat. Oct. 25 |
Acadiana |
Sunday, Oct. 19 - Sat. Oct. 25 |
Gulf Coast (MS) |
November |
|
Sunday, Nov. 16 - Sat. Nov. 22 |
Calcasieu |
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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