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Almost three years after beginning an emergency response to Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, Mercy Corps is closing its New Orleans field office.
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This brief video documentary, which discusses and demonstrates deconstruction, was filmed during Mercy Corps' Flight of Friendship to New Orleans in April 2007.
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Using art to affect social change is an age-old concept, but one that jazz pianist Darrell Grant firmly believes in.
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Two years after Katrina, the challenges are still staggering. But Mercy Corps is still there, working alongside the people who are committed to bringing their city back.
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Rick Denhart, Mercy Corps New Orleans-based Director of Gulf Coast Hurricane Recovery, has been in construction - and deconstruction - all his life.
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In New Orleans, Mercy Corps promotes deconstruction and reuse, supports neighborhood revitalization and seeds and supports small-scale economic development.
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Giving New Orleans middle schoolers video cameras produced an enlightening, 26-minute documentary on how Hurricane Katrina changed their lives.
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The CEO of Portland's Urban League chronicles his experiences in April's "Flight of Friendship."
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The author finds that one "last, unheralded, unpublicized, hardly planned and barely organized event" embodied the entire trip.
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To some New Orleanians, it's as if they are living through someone else's life, and not their own.
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