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Spring Bulletin 2011
Vol. 27 No.1 |
| A Way of Life Erodes Along the Coast - Books to Kids |
Our Biloxi-Chitimacha friends living along the Gulf Coast southwest of New Orleans on Isle de Jean Charles and Pointe aux Chien are having to face the disturbing fact that their way of life, like the land their homes sit on, is eroding.
For decades most have survived by harvesting the shrimp and oysters that inhabit the Gulf. Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike battered their houses and washed away more of their shrinking land.
Now the BP oil disaster has contaminated the shrimp and oysters they depend on. They are the victims of decades of voracious oil exploration and industrial development along with global warming. |
Jacob Walker, showing his self-made tattoo of Louisiana, carries Braden Naquin in Isle de Jean Charles after Gustav hit the island. (photo: Bureau of Indian Affairs) |
Plenty volunteers Jim Selin and Elaine Langley are doing what they can for the children of these threatened communities with deliveries of books, clothes, food, toys and musical instruments. Many thanks to the Philip R. Jonsson Foundation, the Posel Foundation and the PeyBack Foundation. |
Plenty’s Books To Kids project, directed by Jim Selin, has distributed more than 55,000 quality children’s books to schools, community centers and families along the Gulf Coast since 2006.
Pictured right in February, 2011, Jim poses with Howard and Juliette Brunet of Isle de Jean Charles, LA. |
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Pictured left to right are Plenty volunteer Calvin Langley, Lupson (Ti-Pas) Pasteur of Cayes Jacmel, Haiti,
cafe owner and Haiti relief donor, Jill Marshall, Plenty volunteer Elaine Langley,
long-time New Orleans activist, Steve Ringo
and LSU Associate Professor and documentary film maker, Austin Allen, an L/HSVP Board member. |
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