
OVERVIEW Mercy Corps continues to help New Orleans recover by promoting deconstruction and reuse, supporting neighborhood revitalization and seeding and supporting economic and small-business development. Our initial response provided emergency supplies to 100,000 storm-affected residents and psychosocial support, child-focused grants and cultural revitalization programs for 140,000 Gulf Coast youth. Read more >	Writing a 100-word "My Hurricane Story" in her Boys & Girls Club program made Jacklyn, 9, feel better about life after Katrina, which destroyed her Mississippi home.

Play Locally, Impact Globally

Using art to affect social change is an age-old concept, but one that jazz pianist Darrell Grant firmly believes in.

Building By Dismantling

Rick Denhart, Mercy Corps New Orleans-based Director of Gulf Coast Hurricane Recovery, has been in construction - and deconstruction - all his life.

A report on the responses to hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma and their effect on the state of housing


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