Rose's Home

Part of the crew that worked on Rose's home. The teens arrived with a lot of work to do. They did a lot to get it closer to being a home and left it in great shape for the next crew of volunteers. Sometime soon that home will be done thanks to the hundreds of youth groups that travel to the Gulf Coast to help. Rose has been living in a two-room little trailer next to her house, which was totally destroyed by Katrina. While working on the lawn, a crew of young ladies became extremely concerned because while raking they would turn up pieces of dinnerware, a shoe, a framed drawing, a wallet - basically pieces of the lives of the people who lost their homes in Katrina.
Like everyone we met while in Mississippi, Rose was very appreciative of the work the kids were doing.
One local teen, while walking by, talked about how he and his family were on the roof of their home for five-and-a-half hours when Katrina hit.
"What did you do for five-and-a-half hours?" one person asked.
"We were lucky. Our family was all together on the roof. We prayed," he said.