This summer NY2NO has been hosting service learning brigades to New Orleans. Students engage in transformative workshops, participate in farm work, and take part in community building to obtain a critical analysis of the issues that exist in New Orleans, New York, and globally, and effective ways of combating them as youth. Below are some highlights:
Participants take in the Levee Tour as they approach the Levee along the Industrial Canal
A student reflects on the lack of development in the Lower 9th Ward
Our School at Blair Grocery (www.osbgnola.org) staff members Nathanael and Andrew make silk-screened t-shirts with a special logo for the students of their JOB1 summer program and the New York volunteers
The web created after our Food Justice workshop that defines the many issues that growing food can combat
A student selling OSBG produce at the Farmer's Market in St. Bernard's Parish
NY2NO, OSBG and SBU (www.sistasandbrothasunited.org) students cook together to make dinner.
