Day #6 What One Man Can Do is change the world and make it new again. Words to the song that have inspired this movement and words that some people take to heart and act on.
Day # 6 is August 29, 2010. It is the anniversary of the storm that drowned a city. Katrina hit New Orleans five years ago today, the levies gave way and 1,800 people lost their lives. If you are over the age of ten you have seen the news coverage of people waiting for help that did not come, you have seen the homes that were destroyed and five years later still stand vacant. This could be a story of blame and ineptitude and victims, it could be ,but it is not.
The people of New Orleans made it their business to build back their homes, their city, their lives. Media stars and movie stars volunteered money, time, materials to assure that change would be good. Habit for Humanity took on the daunting challenge to build five homes in five days for the fifth anniversary. They succeeded. They had help. Volunteers from far and near hammered nails, held beams, put down floors to assure the city that drowned would be resuscitated.
This could be a story of doom, gloom, despair and flagrant buck passing. It could be, but I see it as a story of what people can do when they take action, on their own, and create change for the better.
Kudos to The City of New Orleans! Kudos for showing the world what can be done without the almighty hand of government.
Action Taken: The city saw and accepted what had happened. They accepted that if a city was to be born again it would be up to the individuals to birth it.
Happy Anniversary, New Orleans! You inspire us.
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