Beyond Katrina
Description: Emergency Communities in St Bernard Parish, LA. Emergency Communities is a new type of disaster relief. We formed after the horrific Hurricane Katrina to fill gaps that we found in traditional relief models. We are a grassroots, on-the-ground relief effort that seeks to use our compassion and talents to provide for those worst effected by disasters. Our first major project, the Made with Love Cafe and Grill in St. Bernard Parish, adjacent to the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, is already a stunning success.
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Emergency Communities is a non-profit organization that employs compassion and creativity to provide community-based disaster relief. Since Katrina, we have operated four relief sites, served over 300,000 meals and 25,000 residents of the Gulf. We are a United Way Partner Agency.
We currently run a community center near New Orleans in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, a place still suffering from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. In fact, it is where Katrina first made landfall, and very little relief work has been done. There, in addition to serving meals, we run a free laundromat, an internet café and a distribution center. We also host live music by New Orleans bands, supply the local “Meals on Wheels” program, and run an afterschool program in a local FEMA trailer park
We have recently opened a new relief site in the Lower 9th Ward. We need a lot of help getting our new site off the ground.
Beyond Katrina