Exciting news in Gentilly: HONO Day 2010, Jericho Road Community Garden/Clean Up Day

Two great projects in Gentilly this past weekend:

HandsOn New Orleans Day 2010

and

Jericho Road's Community Garden/Clean Up Day

HandsOn New Orleans Day 2010 was a celebration of our organization's 4th anniversary! Over 200 local and visiting volunteers helped to clean up Gentilly's very own Indian Village on March 20th. Teams of hard workers, from high school students to parents, utilized our TLL's cache of gloves, shovels, rakes, weedwackers, and hand tools to clear street debris and cut down overgrowth. In a matter of hours, the community had seen a great transformation and the celebration of genrously donated food, Mardi Gras Indian spectacles, and top volunteer recognition awards had begun.

Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative held a Community Garden/Clean Up Day in Gentilly the following Sunday where a number of volunteers beautified a section of the neighborhood and overhauled the site of an impressive community garden plot. Rachel of Jericho Road and her equally enthusiastic accomplace, Tammy, returned their tools with great stories of accomplishment. You can view their photo album on Facebook here and catch the visual storyline of what you can imagine was a monster-sized project. We're glad such individuals and organizations have this much motivation to see their projects to the end!

Do you have pictures of the house you are working on or the community site your friends fixed up? The HONO Tool Lending Library would love to share your story as a member of our Greater New Orleans community so that others can be inspired. Feel free to contact us with your pictures and stories via email or in person.

Cheers,
Marc