In the afternoon, Megan, Yonatan, Dan, Caleb. Paris and I went to the Lower 9th Ward with Mary Hill, a student at Xavier, and Ron Bechet, Director of Xavier’s Art Department. First, we went to have a meeting with Linda Jackson at NENA, the Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association, located in the heart of the Lower Ninth Ward. Linda also runs the Lower 9th Ward Homeowner’s Association, an organization dedicated to facilitating the return of neighborhood residents, especially senior citizens, and to preventing the land of the neighborhood from being sold to investors. Linda was an animated, intelligent and incredibly hard working personality and amazing individual. She has created a map which depicts the residents that she has been able to get in touch with since the storm. The green pins are those residents that have returned home, the yellow are those that are unsure whether they can return home (mostly due to financial concerns), the white are FEMA trailers and the red are those that will not be returning:
After meeting with Linda, I felt very strongly that I wanted to continue to work with her to a get a blog up for the Lower 9th Ward Homeowner’s Association and to facilitate donations to the organization, which is desperately needs.
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