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Hurricane Katrina haunts New Orleans as trump guts disaster aid
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/26/hurricane-katrina-anniversary-trump-fema
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OffBeat Magazine: Lowernine.Org Launches Nationwide #50states Ambassador Program
https://www.offbeat.com/news/lowernine-org-launches-nationwide-50states-ambassador-program
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Katrina 13th Anniversary Reddit AMA
lowernine.org’s Executive Director, Laura Paul, hosts an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit on the 13th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
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Gambit’s Frontline People Awards (featuring Darren McKinney)
Frontline People Awards features lowernine.org’s very own Darren McKinney!
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Laura Paul talks about lowernine.org’s new food pantry in the Lower 9th Ward
lowernine.org was founded in 2007 to build homes in the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures. Laura Paul volunteered with lowernine.org and now serves as executive director. During the coronavirus pandemic, the group started a mobile food pantry. On Nov. 17, it opened the permanent Levee Food Pantry at 1804 […]
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lowernine.org breaks ground on new headquarters; commemorates 15th anniversary of hurricane katrina and announces call for $500k fundraising
lowernine.org announced its partnership with Shibusa Systems to build their new headquarters in New Orleans, Louisiana. The new space will combine a floor of office space with two stories of volunteer housing to advance lowernine.org’s mission of securing long-term recovery for residents of the Lower Ninth Ward affected by the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and […]
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Welcome to the Age of Climate Migration
By Jeff Goodell | Rolling Stone In discussion with lowernine.org Executive Director Laura Paul, Rolling Stone explores the devastating way that climate change contributes to natural disasters, and how the populations of US cities could change because of these mega-storms. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/welcome-to-the-age-of-climate-migration-w516974
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300,000 ways to make New Orleans a better place
By The Times-Picayune Editorial Board As part of the celebration of New Orleans’ 300th birthday, the city’s tricentennial committee set an ambitious goal for community service. They are challenging New Orleanians to put in 300,000 hours of volunteer work in 2018. When the effort was launched a month ago, many of us were probably focused on Mardi Gras festivities. …Lowernine.org […]
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lowernine.org named top volunteer vacation spot
FlipKey and TripAdvisor have named lowernine.org among the top spots to volunteer while on vacation. Book a trip with us today! https://www.flipkey.com/blog/2016/11/11/travel-give-back-top-volunteer-vacations
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Hurricane Katrina Victim Helps People Recover After Louisiana Floods
NPR All Things Considered | Ari Shapiro A car full of people has just arrived outside this flooded house in Baton Rouge. They drove up from New Orleans as part of an organization called Lowernine.org. This is a group of volunteers that has been rebuilding flooded homes over the last decade in New Orleans’ Lower […]
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Volunteers to rebuild 9th Ward home with help from James Hardie Co.
By Robert Rhoden | NOLA.com – The Times-Picayune Volunteers with the non-profit Lowernine.org will get some training this weekend on the installation of siding at a home on Caffin Avenue in the Lower 9th Ward. The rebuilding event at Mary Ann Nadine’s house Saturday (June 4) and Sunday will be led by 13 skilled workers from […]
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City lauds the arrival of CVS pharmacy in Lower 9th Ward
BY CHAD CALDER | The New Orleans Advocate –
The city celebrates the opening of a CVS in the lower ninth ward as a signal of progress. Laura Paul of Lowernine.org says that she welcomes the business and hopes it will provide incentive for people to move back to the area. Only 37 percent of the ninth ward population prior to Katrina has returned, compared to 89 percent for the entire city. -
Chemical spill In Lower 9th Ward alarms activists
By Bill Capo | WWL –
In a video covering an oil spill recently discovered on a Lizardi Street lot in the lower ninth ward, Laura Paul comments on how these toxins could affect the residents of the area and it’s rebuilding. -
A Tale of Two Neighborhoods
By Calvin Hennick | USGBC+ –
Almost a decade after Katrina, Calvin Hennick compares the recovery of the Broadmoor area to the Lower Ninth Ward. Laura Paul and Errol Joseph explain the discrimination of organizations such as the Road Home program, which contributed to the Lower Ninth Ward’s struggle to recover as well as Lowernine.org’s work to aid the neighborhood in this hindering process. -
After the flood
By Gary Mason | The Globe and Mail –
A detailed story on the disparate recovery of the city ten years post-Katrina. Laura Paul of lowernine.org says Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation should be called “Make it White.” She acknowledges the organization’s good intentions, but points out that it is not the best way to spend their funds.
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Levee Pantry Press Release
LEVEE FOOD PANTRY TO OPEN IN THE LOWER NINTH WARD ON NOVEMBER 17th Longtime Community Partners Anchor a New Community Resource in the Neighborhood in Response to Pandemic and Long Term Disaster Recovery Needs New Orleans, LA: A brand new brick-and-mortar food pantry for Orleans Parish residents will be opening in the Lower Ninth Ward […]