Day of Service New Orleans

We volunteered with an organization known as The Porch last Saturday. The cultural center acts as a resource and activity area for kids that live in the area, and its right here in the Marigny. Our own Team member DK organized the event, which entailed four NCCC teams that currently reside in New Orleans coming together to beautify a community garden here in addition to cleaning up trash in the neighborhood.

It was nice to work with the kids. They were more than eager to help with weeding and picking up trash. It was even more motivation for us, knowing that these kids would be coming back here every day and would have a clean area to have fun in.

While clearing up the trash in the neighborhood, we found what used to be a basketball court. It's crazy taking a look at it now and seeing what has built up and grown since the floods. It's specific things like this that put into perspective how much you can achieve by tackling things one at a time. Obviously, our objective for the day wasn't to clear out this area; but knowing what we had done for the community garden that day, in just a few hours, just proves that the same can be done for this former basketball court (picture below). Perhaps that can be a project for us in the future; Most importantly, though, hopefully anyone who has time would be able to volunteer for the project.

Anyway, a solid and successful Day of Service. This was our final one, as there is a Day of Service for each round, and DK did a great job as our Project Outreach Liaison and put a lot of work into coordinating our involvement with other teams and the sponsors.