Reconstruction Trip Notes from Linda
11/06/2007 10:56
I traveled
with United Peace Relief with Grandmothers for Peace
to New Orleans last week to help with some
reconstruction...actually I did the cooking for the
crew...use what talent you have.
Marg Hayes from Austin who has lived in South America and Africa observed "This is like a third world country". In the neighborhoods we worked and stayed I estimate about one in four homeowners or less have returned. The homes that are restored often have little water pressure, the neighborhoods go completely dark as few street lights have been restored, the roads are dangerous, you have to drive about five miles an hour on the side streets. I image tire repair and alignment garages are doing ok.
An entire way of life has been lost here, before Katrina folks in the Carrollton-Hollygrove Nighborhood Uptown where Charles and Beverly Robinson and four generations before them lived could walk to restaurants, stores, activity centers and churches. Very few ha! ve repoened as you will see by the many attached photos. They have to travel several miles for a store and the prices are higher than we experience here in Texas. I paid $3.23 gallon for gas and $5.79 for a gallon of milk.
Ironically, I asked the Robinson's what their biggest concern was and Beverly replied "All those kids dying in Iraq". Wage Peace and help you neighbors....Love Linda
- linda
Marg Hayes from Austin who has lived in South America and Africa observed "This is like a third world country". In the neighborhoods we worked and stayed I estimate about one in four homeowners or less have returned. The homes that are restored often have little water pressure, the neighborhoods go completely dark as few street lights have been restored, the roads are dangerous, you have to drive about five miles an hour on the side streets. I image tire repair and alignment garages are doing ok.
An entire way of life has been lost here, before Katrina folks in the Carrollton-Hollygrove Nighborhood Uptown where Charles and Beverly Robinson and four generations before them lived could walk to restaurants, stores, activity centers and churches. Very few ha! ve repoened as you will see by the many attached photos. They have to travel several miles for a store and the prices are higher than we experience here in Texas. I paid $3.23 gallon for gas and $5.79 for a gallon of milk.
Ironically, I asked the Robinson's what their biggest concern was and Beverly replied "All those kids dying in Iraq". Wage Peace and help you neighbors....Love Linda
- linda