Remembering New Orleans
Text: Julie Schwietert Collazo
Photos: Francisco Collazo & Julie Schwietert Collazo
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In June 2008 Francisco and I went to New Orleans to work with the Culinary Corps, a voluntourism organization I profiled in this article.
It was Francisco’s first time in the city and my third, but for both of us, it was our first post-Katrina visit and we were astounded by the amount of recovery work that still needed to be done. The photos below are from that visit.
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New Orleans’ Charity Hospital, closed after Katrina.
A tattered American flag that hadn’t been replaced, three years after the hurricane.
What do you do when your country hasn’t listened to you?
If even City Hall hasn’t been razed or rehabbed, what can we possibly expect for the rest of the city?
It’s always striking how some fragile items remain intact.
A house “tattooed” with search, rescue, and recovery information.
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To see the rest of our New Orleans photos, visit our New Orleans album on Flickr.
Other articles we’ve written about New Orleans:
*Top 6 Volunteer Experiences in New Orleans
*Top 10 Reasons to Travel to New Orleans NOW
*5 Tips for a New Orleans Escape
September 1st, 2009 at 6:52 pm
I hope it looks better than this now – at least making progress. When went down to the Gulf to help with reconstruction/relief after Katrina. I go back and look at our pictures from time to time just to remind myself. I was blown away – I never saw anything like it and hope I won’t again.