About
Who are we?
Youth Rebuilding New Orleans is a non-profit organization that was organized by youth, for youth, following Hurricane Katrina. Many young people who wanted to volunteer to help rebuild their city were turned away by other non-profits because of the liability associated with reconstruction work. Instead of accepting this rejection, a committed group of teenagers decided they would find a way to help the New Orleans community recover.Although we have grown exponentially from the initial days following Hurricane Katrina, our vision and founding principles have remained the same. Our mission is to reduce blight by rebuilding distressed and foreclosed homes while engaging local youth in the recovery and rebirth of the New Orleans area.
What do we offer?
- Meaningful Volunteer Experiences
- Service Learning
- Youth Engagement
We assign volunteers fulfilling work. We know that individuals have many choices and we do our best by utilizing your time as efficiently as possible.
Service-learning is a teaching method that combines service to the community with classroom curriculum. We do our best to tailor service days by providing lesson plans and projects geared specifically towards students curriculum.
Teaching youth valuable life skills is an essential part of our organizations mission. We believe rebuilding our homes gives individuals important construction skills in addition to financial literacy and other home ownership skills.
- RT @MelindaMorrisTP I witnessed the mayor of Westwego, in suit and tie, wrangle an armadillo in front of Westwego City Hall today. 5 days ago
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Thanks!
Thanks to all of our recent volunteers from Jesuit and Ben Franklin! Alexander looks like a brand new house thanks to the new paint job.
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