Warrenetta Banks: Helping to Rebuild New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward
A wonderful piece on CSED's Warrenetta Banks from NewsOne! Congrats Warrenetta for this well-deserved recognition!
By Jeff Mays
This Black History Month, we honor the GAME CHANGERS: Everyday heroes whose actions make life better for the people around them.
Warrenetta Banks
Place of Residence: New Orleans, La.
Why she is a local hero: Banks is working with the Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development to help rebuild her city.
The volunteers always pour in right after a tragedy. Whether it be Haiti or New Orleans, people respond when they see evidence of lives touched by destruction. But what happens when the news cameras leave and the victims of natural disaster are left to fend for themselves?
In New Orleans, Banks has worked diligently with the Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development to coordinate volunteer efforts to make sure that doesn’t happen. From building homes and restoring gardens and playgrounds, thousands of volunteers continue to contribute to the effort to rebuild parts of New Orleans in a sustainable way.
So far the Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development has helped more than 3,000 volunteers provide 41,000 hours of service for the people of the Lower Ninth Ward, which was hit hardest by Katrina and the overflowing levees that followed.
Banks knows the power of volunteers first-hand. READ MORE >>
via newsone.com
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