March 7, 2007
New Orleans Public Health Service Trip Photo Gallery
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| A message conveying hope is posted on the glass pane of memorial erected in the Lower 9th Ward. |
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| A sign hangs in the Lower 9th Ward requesting witnesses who may have knowledge of the Industrial Canal Levee break. The levee wall is in the background. |
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| The Lower 9th Ward in January 2007 - one and a half years after Katrina, devastation remains. |
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| Many homes in the Lower 9th Ward are only remnants of concrete stairs and concrete slabs where either the water pushed homes away or residents have since demolished their homes. |
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| Residents and business-owners signify their intent to return by spray-painting "Do Not Demolish" to ward off the threat of demolition. |
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| A solitary, abandoned house in the Lower 9th Ward with a spray painted code to the right of the front door indicating that a person died there. |
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| Common Ground, a grass-roots community organization, lends help to residents of the Lower 9th Ward in getting re-established. |
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| A child playing at a press conference held with ACORN and the Columbia School of Public Health. |
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| A group of MPH students with a RALLY staff member takes a lunch break during a day of community surveys in the historical Tréme neighborhood. |
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| MPH students who worked with community organization ACORN to clear debris pose for a picture in their blue jumpsuits. |