Since our first visit to post-Katrina New Orleans. Recently I went back to find out if there is more work for us to do, especially to the Lizardi Day Care Center. Here are some of my impressions, and some pictures. Some will make you happy, others . . .
Things look better and don’t.
The house pictured on the church laptop has been rebuilt, now it has roosters.
Pride and determination have produced results, more is open in the Central Business District, including the Roosevelt Hotel.
The bridges we watched them piledriving concrete for over Lake Pontchartrain are now the bridges you use to cross it on I-10.
There is a new Seniors Apartment in the Lower Ninth.
The staff at cafe du monde are as sullen as ever
Vera is complaining about her neighbours, but loves her house still.
Miss June is as determined as ever, and still gives thanks for us every day.
The daycare is intact and will need cleaning and painting
The electricity connection to the building is painfully bad.
There are more Brad Pitt homes and there are posters and regular bus service in L9
The daycare could become a temporary home for a church and a seniors drop in center. We are working with the L9th Community Association to figure out if it's feasible, including the Rev. W. H. Jenneford, who has a church meeting in an old garage and is raising funds to replace their building. His grandfather started the church and he and his son and now his grandson have been pastors.
There is still work to do there and in the neighbourhood
The school we walked through on the first trip is gone, torn down.
There are folks living in all the houses we worked on in L9 including Caffin Avenue!
Brenda and James are doing well, the living room of their house is a shrine for the Saints.
"The Joint" BBQ has moved!
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