What are the Needs?
One year after the hurricanes, the need is still immense. Last year’s collection provided immediate humanitarian relief. This collection will help to rebuild churches, schools, and other essential parts of the infrastructure which are necessary to rebuild peoples’ lives and hope.
- One year after the hurricanes, the need is still immense. Last year’s collection provided immediate humanitarian relief. This collection will help to rebuild churches, schools, and other essential parts of the infrastructure which are necessary to rebuild peoples’ lives and hope.
- In some areas, people have had to move an average of three times, some as many as nine times, in attempts to re-establish their families and their livelihood. As the population continues to move fluidly throughout the region, diocesan staffs and infrastructures struggle to adapt to meet ever-changing needs.
- 200,000 homes were lost, including the rectories of priests and the homes of deacons who were attempting to minister to others while they themselves were losing everything
- 60% of the population has not returned; 80% of the population in hard-hit St. Bernard's civil parish has not returned; almost no one has returned to Lower Plaquemines
- $52,000,000 worth of estimated uninsured flood damage for buildings the Archdiocese is trying to reopen right now, and another $70,000,000 for buildings whose reopening has had to be delayed
- 428 of 433 church-owned properties were destroyed or seriously damaged.
- $70,000,000 worth of damage to buildings, but only half of that amount is covered by insurance