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ABOUT NEW ORLEANS: A LABOR OF LOVE
It’s less than two months before the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

For most of us, Katrina is a distant memory. Some of us believe the U.S. government has fixed the damage in this short time. Not so. Or that the scope of the disaster is simply too big to fix. Also not true. There is something each of us can do: support the volunteer effort.

Earlier this year I filmed New Orleans: A Labor of Love, a documentary that follows a group of college students who spent their spring break building homes for those displaced by Katrina. The film project has since evolved into a web-based, public awareness campaign with the goal of getting 5,000 volunteers to rebuild New Orleans during 2008.

Volunteers will assist people like Mr. Dilbert, a 64-year old man living in a FEMA trailer, supporting his dependent wife on $600 per month while he tries to find someone to help him gut and rebuild his duplex. And Mr. Perkins, a proud homeowner of 35 years, who recently lost his life savings to a crooked contractor.

In support of this work, I’m asking you to make a tax-deductible donation so that we can turn New Orleans: A Labor of Love into a full-scale public awareness campaign, to launch on August 28, 2007.

The New Orleans: A Labor of Love site will:
•contribute to the rebuilding of homes and lives of New Orleanians
•educate high school and college students about disaster relief and gentrification.
•assist professors/community leaders with organizing student groups to volunteer
•keep the general public informed about the true state of reconstruction work through updated blogs and videocasts.

We thank you for your generous support.

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