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Catholic Charities calls upon AmeriCorps in aftermath of hurricanes
Catholic Charities calls upon AmeriCorps in aftermath of hurricanes By Rania Kaur | February 7, 2021 at 6:06 PM CST - Updated February 7 at 6:34 PM
LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - For Catholic Charities Southwest Louisiana finding volunteers to assist with hurricane and pandemic relief efforts has been a challenge, with so many of their regulars dealing with recovery of their own.
Director Sister Miriam MacClean says after Hurricane Laura they needed volunteers to assist with operating their food banks
“After Hurricane Laura, realizing that a lot of our regular volunteers were displaced, and with COVID-19 additionally, many of the people who regularly come were having difficulties for various reasons.”
Julia Bina of Minnesota uses a machete to cut a large vine wrapped around a tree in Evergreen Cemetery. Ms. Bina leads a group of nine young people with the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps who have been working since Thanksgiving to help clear vegetation and overgrowth from the historic cemetery. Photo by Jeremy Lazarus
Drive into historic Evergreen and East End cemeteries, and it is immediately evident that the 12 years of restoration work is paying off.
The vines, weeds and other overgrowth is gone from large areas of the neighboring African-American cemeteries that date to the 1890s.
Instead of the mowed lawn look of modern cemeteries, these are more naturalistic places, with the headstones and marked graves â some elaborate and others modest â clearly visible and large, open pathways.
Serving With Reverence
A team of AmeriCorps volunteers spends a month in Richmond working at historic African American cemeteries | Photos by Jay Paul
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Since Nov. 19, a team of nine
AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) members has been working at historic Evergreen and East End cemeteries, clearing brush and assisting the
Enrichmond Foundation s restoration and record-keeping efforts at the two historic African American burial grounds.Â
The Richmond assignment represented the midway point for the âRiver Oneâ teamâs 10-month service commitment, which has included everything from stints building trails at Natural Bridge State Park to assisting with disaster relief efforts in Red Cross evacuation shelters in New Orleans after September s hurricanes.Â