In 2009, we took on the project of remodeling McDonogh 42 - a Pre-K to 8th grade Charter School in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans. Our initial remodeling plans turned into 2 years (+) worth of gardening, landscaping, tutoring, fence building and playground reconstructing. It is our most requested project to date.

For Spring Break 2011, we partnered with the Freret Street Neighborhood Association and repainted a mural; rebuilt a fence; planted flowers; put in a sustainable, community garden; built garden benches and cleaned up a neighborhood park.

May has been a busy month for us. Typically, we would be working with volunteers on the ground here in New Orleans. However, with all the recent tornado activity, we instead collected donations from Sacred Heart Academy (New Orleans), Entergy and Kinder Haus Montessori and filled a 26ft truck which we drove to Tuscaloosa, AL for residents who lost everything.

On Sunday, May 22nd, from a text of a friend who lost his home, we began "tweeting" shelter locations for residents in Joplin, MO. An EF5 tore through the town - destroying homes and leaving thousands of people with no place to go. We posted information on Facebook pages and when a posting came to our attention of a site that needed to be taken over, we jumped on the opportunity to serve.