On January 9, 2010, Mike Giarratano, Assistant Professor of Education returned to Katrina-torn Mississippi for the 5th time to help in the ongoing efforts to rebuild. With a delegation of 24 others from the Sacred Heart Community, they joined the local Habitat affiliate and worked on one house the entire week, a house that one family displaced by Katrina will eventually call home.  

The delegation also visited a local elementary school, a house that SHU students and faculty worked on during a previous trip which is now inhabited by a wonderful family, as well as several other homes where they heard firsthand accounts of Katrina survivors. 

 

Camp Victor Ministries in Ocean Springs, Mississippi provided shelter and food for the group. It is one of two sites set up through Habitat for Humanity of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the Salvation Army specifically to house large groups of volunteers who come to the area to help with rebuilding efforts. 

Left to Right:  Students Brian Casey, Chris Carr and Kevin Medeiros with Professor Mike Giarratano.