Today my group took part in Green Light New Orleans, which is a nonprofit organization that takes out lightbulbs in resident homes and replace them with Mercury free bulbs in order to decrease the amount carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere.
~ Matthew Kaplan is from Atlanta, Georgia and attends University of Georgia
The towering highways wind and turn above the Lower Ninth Ward, casting long, serpent-like shadows above the decayed and broken homes. It's hard to believe that the Hurricane Katrina was ten years ago, but for the inhabitants of the Lower Ninth, it still feels like yesterday.
We began our volunteering at the St. Bernard Project with an ice breaker. We went around in a circle saying our name and the city we live in, then we recounted a childhood memory. After everyone had gone Chris, one our volunteer coordinator, told us the purpose of the ice breaker.
Today we volunteered for a nonprofit organization called Green Light. This organization helps build gardens for members of the New Orleans community and aids in providing healthy accessible food options. In our volunteering we built a garden for a women who just recently moved to New Orleans with her husband.
Today my group visited the recirculating farms coalition. The farm is right in the middle of a food desert, a place where people don't have access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Recirculating farms grows organic fruits and vegetables a that they sell to the residents of the food dessert at a reduced price.
