AP: Jimmy Carter & Harry Connick Jr back in NOLA
Source: Associated Press
You've got to love those Habitat for Humanity folks:
As former President Jimmy Carter nailed down the front porch of a home under construction Wednesday, singer Harry Connick Jr. gave an update on the progress being made in the Upper 9th Ward, an area slow to recover from Hurricane Katrina.
The two are supporters of Habitat for Humanity, and both expressed their excitement about the organization's construction of houses in this section of the city, where block after block of flooded-out homes still sit vacant on lots with overgrown grass.
"To be part of this rebuild is thrilling," said Connick, who took his 12-year-old daughter, Georgia, to the construction site. "I feel like it's a moral responsibility to rebuild New Orleans, and I'm going to continue to do what I can to help."
Seven homes were being built on the street Wednesday by hundreds of volunteers through Habitat as part of a building blitz Carter is leading this week along the Gulf Coast. In all, more than 250 houses will be built _ many through the end of the year _ in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas.
