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[Just Call Me Joe]

I'm a graduate of the University of Mobile and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. I left New Orleans in 2008, spent a year in Fort Worth, Texas, then moved back to Mobile.

I like people, but bad things happen all the time. I want to help people in the world's poorest and hungriest countries learn ways to become more sustainable. Agricultural, architectural, and environmental education and higher standards reduce the effects of inevitable disasters. If we really love people, this is something that needs to happen to save lives.

I currently serve the Mobile area as an AmeriCorps VISTA with the Alabama Gulf Coast Chapter of the American Red Cross. As always, the opinions I state on my blog are personal and do not represent the American Red Cross or any organization with which I am affiliated.

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Thursday, August 26, 2010 2:00 PM Posted in Architecture, Hurricane Katrina, Life, New Orleans, Photography

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If you drive through the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans today, the scene looks similar to 2007 and 2008, when I took the photos below. The Milne Boys Home (top left) is still hollow, with plans for renovation scheduled sometime in the next year or two. Gentilly struggled to rebuild as much as any neighborhood in the city after Katrina, although I saw significant progress on the roads and in some residential pockets when I was there in July 2010. (The buses, top right, are actually from a junkyard off of Chef Highway in New Orleans East.)