For six days volunteers worked at least seven hours a day for a total of 4,200 hours of volunteer labor. Families’ homes that Hurricane Katrina rendered uninhabitable were rebuilt.

Women's Rebuild Week is the result of a partnership between the St. Bernard Project and the United Way's Women's Leadership Council. With a donation of $100,000 from the Tide Corp., volunteers from the New Orleans area and around the country refurbished homes in St. Bernard Parish.

Since the St. Bernard Project formed a partnership with the United Way of Greater New Orleans, they have moved more than 70 families back into their homes at an average cost of $10,000 per house. And volunteers are working on more than 20 houses now.

Because of your help, 15 families are now so much closer to moving back into their homes.

 

View pictures from the event here.