11/11/2022 0 Comments Aid to katrina musicShe said the group will work on a home-building project with Habitat for Humanity, but also will work in the store that provides as an extremely reduced price building materials, appliances, fixtures and furniture that have been donated. The star-studded Hurricane Katrina benefit concert 'From the Big Apple to the Big Easy' - featuring Elvis Costello, Lenny Kravitz, Allen Toussaint and others - will raise funds beyond its New. “But there is still a lot of work to be done as the community rebuilds.” “The group that went last year had a wonderful experience,” Rhodes said. and Judy Simon, a sophomore pre-nursing student from Marietta, Ga., and Port St. Julissa White, a junior mass communication major from Lithonia, Ga., Bianca Poindexter, first-year business major from Atlanta Nancy Mizzell, a sophomore music major from Tampa, Fla. The Women’s College group includes Samia Stambouli, a first-year mass communication major from Saint-Denis, France Monique Simon, a sophomore occupational therapy major from Marietta, Ga. Two of the three 10th graders, Gina Gee and Gyuree Kwon, are from Korea, and a third, Ariel Liu, is from China. The Brenau Academy group includes three 11th graders – Shinwoo Lee from Korea, Jenny Kong from China, and Amber Rickman from Alpharetta, Ga. The group comprises students from both the Women’s College at Brenau University and from the grades 9-12 residential prep academy that is located on the Gainesville campus of the university. So far I've seen that the government accepted aid (in the form of physical supplies or on the ground help) from Sweden, Mexico, Russia, Canada, Singapore, French and the Dutch. 28, to repeat the mission initiated last year of students’ giving up their spring vacations to help in the ongoing effort to build and renovate houses for victims of Hurricane Katrina.Īssistant Professor of Mass Communication Julia Clay and Kristina Rhodes, manager of Brenau’s WBCX-FM radio station, head the delegation that will spend the week working for Habitat for Humanity in Harvey, La., the suburb located just south of the Mississippi River from New Orleans. I was doing a little bit of reading about the US response to Hurricane Katrina and read with interest that this was the first time that the US has accepted foreign aid.
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