1. 2 years ago 

    New Orleans, Louisiana

    Wolf 5 (my AmeriCorps NCCC team) is working with The Phoenix of New Orleans (PNOLA) to renovate homes severely battered by Katrina and which their homeowners cannot afford to rebuild and thus find it difficult to break the exile imposed by the storm. PNOLA utilizes volunteer labor to make that project affordable and thus encourage investment in and the development of the Lower Mid-City area and the surrounding communities.

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So I, Sean Kesluk, left Los Angeles for a 6 month adventure abroad in Europe and South America. After a few weeks studying the Deutsch in Freiburg, Germany, it's two months up north in Hamburg working for the city's Jewish community center. After a brief foray into Sweden, I'll head South to Buenos Aires for some Spanish classes and volunteer work in a La Boca soup kitchen. After that it's back home to the States and national service with AmeriCorps NCCC. With a month of training at the VA medical campus in Perry Point, MD, it 's off to Baltimore for my first project, two months working for The Samaritan Women, a non-profit renovating a hundred-year-old mansion to use as a transitional home for women in recovery from heroin addiction and human trafficking, in addition to expanding a farm/urban garden to distribute produce to soup kitchens, shelters, and those in nutritional poverty. The second project will see us down in New Orleans, LA doing post-Katrina work with The Phoenix of New Orleans, a non-profit which renovates homes for Lower Mid-City homeowners who can't afford to do so.
 
 

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