Plenty International

Winter Bulletin 2007 - 2008
Vol. 23, No.4

Articles:
Introduction
Katrina Recovery
Plenty Belize
Native Americans Fight Uranium Mining
KTC Enjoys Kwanzaa Celebration

KATRINA RECOVERY

Plenty’s work in the Gulf continues while conditions faced by thousands of survivors fail to improve: 50,000 families still in FEMA trailers are slowly being evicted. 90,000 homeowners in Louisiana are still waiting for promised “Road Home” money to repair their houses. The homeless population of New Orleans has doubled (to more than 12,000) since before Katrina. HUD intends to spend $762 million to bulldoze 4,600 public housing apartment units in New Orleans.

Plenty volunteer Elaine Langely, with the generous support of doctors and nurses and other staff at the Williamson Medical Center near Nashville where she is a nurse, and members of the Farm Community in Summertown, TN, collected and distributed a 16 foot moving van full of new clothes, food and toys in New Orleans and Biloxi, MS.

Katrina Recovery program Director, Tony Sferlazza with the welcome assistance of numerous skilled volunteers has been renovating the homes of FEMA trailer inhabitants. One such home was completely remodeled from its gutted state to finished in 5 weeks for $11,000.

Elaine plays Santa in Biloxi, Mississippi. Plenty, Americorps and United Peace Relief volunteers at 87-year-old Vernon Washington’s house in New Orleans.

Elaine Langely drops off gifts at the gutted house of Linda Audibert and her grandchildren in Arabi, LA. (Left to rt. front) Plenty volunteer, Kenny Breckenridge, and Vernon Washington, (rear) United Peace Relief volunteers, Bob Dress and Frank Fanto, and Plenty Program Director, Tony Sferlazza.

Sheetrocking Vernon Washington’s house.
Tony and the Americorp workers who helped sheet rock Ms. Emma's home.

Mr. Washington's ready to sheetrock. Mr. Washington's sheetrock completed.