Education

Restoring Buildings and Lives

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The Gulf Coast Construction Career Center has been training New Orleans residents to enter union building trades apprenticeship programs, enabling these students to help rebuild their city and  support their families through jobs with decent wages and benefits. 

‘If you take away their schools, you take away their hope’

Forced to navigate the daunting maze of traditional public schools, charter schools and recovery schools, parents must be their children's strongest vocal advocate.

In a city of despair, hope remains…


“Inspirational” is an overworked adjective in our collective vocabulary, but it can surely be used to describe much of what’s happening in New Orleans today.
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