Hunger Program assesses recovery 18 months post-Katrina/Rita
Of the few house remaining in the Lower 9th, this one was knocked off its six foot pillared base. Steps in the foreground are a stairway to nowhere. Photo by Andrew Kang Bartlett. The scope of the damage to this once-modern, U.S. metropolitan area caught me off guard. Like the journalists and camera crews who now rarely report on New Orleans as they seek out lobbying scandals, torture accusations, and Baghdad bombings, my attention too had been drawn elsewhere.
Yes, I had heard things were still bad, but I was amazed at how widespread the destruction was 16 months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The desolation of the Lower 9th Ward and hundreds of damaged, gutted and bulldozed houses in middle-class Lakeview startled me.
Fortunately, the city came to me in small doses. After finding the house of Rev. Jean Marie Peacock... [Download the 4-page account by Andrew Kang Bartlett] 
Ninth Ward photo album
Photos of destruction in the Ninth Ward and volunteers at work and in their tent camp.
Sustainable gardening and PHEWA Conference album
Photos of volunteers working in vegetable gardens and at the Musician's Village, as well as photos from the PHEWA conference and New Orleans East.
Shrimpers, farmers, justice advocates team to rebuild New Orleans food system
When the eye of Hurricane Katrina roared through Bayou Sauvage, between the Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans, it wiped out Pete and Clara Gerica’s house and four of their five fishing boats. It took Pete 12 frantic hours of paddling around the bayou to find his mother, her dog, his daughter, and then, finally, Clara.
[See video clips of Pete telling his story]
The Presbyterian News Service — in partnership with Media Services and Internet Services — has released a special multi-media report detailing progress in Gulf Coast relief efforts since Hurricane Katrina devastated the area in August 2005.
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