Next month I plan to go to New Orleans with a group from our church, St. Phillips Episcopal. I'm going to blog my experience of the journey. Therefore, I'll start with the meeting I attended last week.
I had heard and already planned to go on this trip before the intro meeting last week. St. Phillips has done this in prior years so I'll be going with some experienced people. Volunteers going to New Orleans are primarily engaged in demolition at this stage. As I understand, they are still trying to sort out what the requirements will be for rebuilding, e.g. elevation, code standards, etc.
We will go as a group of twelve, renting a van and taking two days there and two days back. We will be in New Orleans for five days. I'll have to shoulder some cost such as a motel room for one day (I'll share with another and he will pay the other day) and, although meals will be prepared where we stay, we plan to eat out 2-3 times to give ourselves a break and to support the local economy.
To prepare for the trip I went to the county health department and got a tetanus shot to be sure I was recent and a Hepatitis A vaccine. The Hep A is required 4 weeks prior to need and really consist of two shots, the first one which I got yesterday and a second (permanent) shot in six months.
There will be one more meeting at the end of the month to firm up on some of the details and hopefully meet everyone going. The volunteer work is being coordinated the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and their website details information and forms needed to participate. We will be staying at Chapel House which you can see has luxuriant cots to sleep on.
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