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\n\t\tTwo 溏心vlog免费B站 faith-based groups changed by the experience<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013February 12, 2008\u2014Volunteers are slowly rebuilding New Orleans, devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. <\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站 students from two faith-based groups, the Newman Club (Catholic campus organization) and Hillel (Jewish campus organization) were among those volunteers last month. They spent a week during the semester break helping New Orleans, one of the oldest cities in the country, as it is struggles to regain some of its equilibrium. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe students and their leaders not only learned about the hurricane\u2019s impact, they also felt the impact of the experience themselves.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI gave my heart to this project and left a piece of it in New Orleans,\u201d says Rebecca Davis, a pharmacy student from Berwick, Maine and one of the 17 Newman Club students.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOur group stayed at Camp Restore, a Lutheran camp in East New Orleans, which houses about 200 volunteers in bunks. Long-term volunteers that run the camp fed us three meals a day, coordinated our work projects, and inspired us\u2026they put their lives on hold to help.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tDavis\u2019s team spent four days sheet-rocking and insulating two homes. The team met one of the homeowners \u2013Ron, about 55 and disabled. He had remodeled his home just before the storm. The hardwood floors were ripped up and holes were everywhere. \u201cEven if homeowners have the money to rebuild there is a problem with unscrupulous contractors who do half the work, take all of the money, and never are seen again,\u201d Davis notes.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe future pharmacist was changed by the experience. \u201cMy goals in life remain the same, but I have set the bar a little higher for myself, knowing that I can do more than just be a bystander to all that goes around me.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t think we realized how much five days of work can mean to a community that feels like they have already been forgotten,\u201d said Lisa Friedman, Jewish Student Life Coordinator who led 13 溏心vlog免费B站 Hillel students in a rebuilding effort with 100 or so other Hillel students from across the country. Each campus worked on different sites.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOn one day we traveled to the Lower 9th Ward to visit the Make It Right Project with the pink houses, \u201c says Friedman.<\/p>\n


\n\t \u201cAt first the students thought it was an art exhibit to show the houses that were devastated. What they didn\u2019t realize was that those pink houses stood for ACTUAL houses on those actual spots that had been completely washed away when the levees broke. It was mind boggling.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Hillel group worked in the Broadmoor community, which sustained a considerable amount of flooding and devastation.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe were assigned to two houses, which we subsequently named Victoria and Sally,\u201d says Adam Greenberg, an international engineering student from Warwick who will graduate this May with degrees in mechanical engineering and Spanish. The Hillel team installed fiberglass insulation to walls and ceilings, primed and painted, and gutted rooms to their framework, and cleaned the work site. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe team commuted an hour to New Orleans from a campground in Kiln, Miss. \u201c\u201cWe held a Shabbat service in Mississippi. I have always known that Judaism places a great value on assisting those in need and this was a great hands-on opportunity to fulfill this,\u201d Greenberg says.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cAfter working one night we were given time to explore the city of New Orleans. It was great to see how much of the inner city had been repaired. It was also a great way to enjoy some down time and listen to some jazz or try some famous gumbo,\u201d the future engineer says.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThere is no way, now that I met the people of New Orleans and forged a connection to a place that was so foreign to me before, that I can ignore the cries of those still homeless, jobless, and suffering. I saw it, I heard it, I felt it, and it\u2019s in me now,\u201d comments Friedman.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe experience transformed me as a person,\u201d says sophomore Matthew Brum of his second trip to the Gulf Coast. Last year, the East Providence resident did an alternate spring break, traveling to Pearlington, Miss. with three other 溏心vlog免费B站 Newman Club students led by Tina Neil who led this year\u2019s Newman group. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe 溏心vlog免费B站 group helped a family of four rebuild their home. \u201cI never held a paint roller before in my life,\u201d he says, noting that his motivation to help overpowered his uncertainty. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe gave 515 hours of service and brought back 17 perspectives on mourning, despair, hope, restoration, reality, compassion, and understanding,\u201d said Tina Neil, a 2001 alumna and current graduate student. This was Neil\u2019s third trip aiding in the Katrina relief effort. Neil took a year off as a Jesuit Volunteer before graduate school. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cAfter my first trip, I was asked to spread the message of need. I fulfill this by fighting social justice issues that affect NOLA (New Orleans) by rebuilding houses, coordinating trips and educating young people and myself about the issues. I hope I never forget the faces of the children living in ghost-like neighborhoods or the families I met who lost everything who took the time to tell me their story. Once you meet the people of New Orleans you will understand why I keep going back.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nNewman Club

\nGraduate student Tina Neil, West Warwick, R.I

\nPhilip \u201cP.J.\u201d Petrone, 2000 溏心vlog免费B站 alumnus, North Falmouth, Mass.

\nGraduate student Jacqueline Kemp, Brooklyn, N.Y.

\nRyan Andersen ,Johnston, R.I.

\nStephen Boisclair , Westerly, R.I.

\nSara Brent ,Lumberton, N.J.

\nMathrew Brum, East Providence, R.I.

\nRebecca Davis, Berwick, Maine

\nBret Dio ,Tiverton, R.I.

\nStephanie Ferrara, Coventry, R.I.

\nBrendan Friend, Westerly, R.I.

\nCarolyn Kopcha, Southington, Conn.

\nMichelle Krawczynski ,North Hampton, Mass.

\nEileen Marran,Smithfield, R.I.

\nMichael Pilacik, West Natick, N.Y.

\nAshley Saucier,Narragansett, R.I.

\nKayla Smith , Wakefield, R.I.

\nHillel Group

\nLisa Friedman, Jewish Student Life Coordinator Clifton Park, NY

\nStudents

\nBekki Davis, Pawtucket, R.I.

\nTaffidy Davis, Rochester, N.H.

\nAdam Greenberg, Warwick, R.I.

\nAaron Hebenstreit, New Britain, Conn.

\nEvan Katz, Jamestown, R.I.

\nErica Kent, Rochester, N.H.

\nLauren Koger, Bristol, R.I.

\nLauren Magness, Summit, N.J.

\nKendra Rosenberg, Plymouth, Mass.

\nMiriam Sandberg, Silver Spring, Md.

\nLeah Schectman, Barrington, R.I.

\nKirsten Shaw-Munderback, South Portland, Maine

\nBrett Strassman, Woodbury, N.Y.<\/p>\n


\nPictured above

\n 溏心vlog免费B站 Newman Club members (l-r) Ryan Andersen of Johnston, Eileen Marran of Smithfield, Rebecca Davis of Berwick, Maine, Stephen Boisclair of Westerly, Michelle Krawczynski of North Hampton, Mass., Carolyn Kopcha of Southington, Conn., and P.J. Petrone of North Falmouth, Mass. ready to paint. Photo courtesy of Carolyn Kopcha.<\/p>\n

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