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AMERICUS, Ga. (Sept. 3, 2005) – Habitat for Humanity International is launching “Operation Home Delivery,” a three-phase response to help provide assistance and rebuilding opportunities in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
"First responders are providing immediate aid right now, but, soon, efforts will be moving toward helping people rebuild their lives and their homes,” said Jonathan Reckford, Habitat’s chief executive officer. “We are working now to make sure we have just such a plan in place when conditions are at a point that rebuilding can get under way.”
Specifically, the plan focuses, first, on helping Habitat affiliates that were hardest hit by Katrina restore some level of service. Then Habitat will seek to serve as a catalyst with other organizations, governments, corporations, foundations, etc., to bring people together to talk about low-income housing and recovery on a scale that Habitat alone would be unable to do, and third, to establish and implement a “home in a box project.”
Full press release:
http://www.habitat.org/newsroom/2005archive/insitedoc010602.aspx
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