Help the September 11th Rescue Workers and Their Children

Freedom Foundation www.FreedomFlight911.com

Our Mission
Freedom Flight FAB Club for Kids Foundation aims to bring children together to help themselves and others. We recognize that many children are crying out for attention and need help with coping and life skills. Our roots begin with the children of Responders who answered the call for 9/11 and branch out to others in equal need. We strive to help children who are hurting… find hope and healing. One heart, One mind, One life at a time!

FAB- Feel better, Act better, Be better- CLUB The FAB Club is for, by, and about children! It's about giving them the tools and skills to cope with life. It's about giving them the confidence to be the best they can be under the guidance of caring adult facilitators.

Our Vision
The guiding principle that shapes our Foundation is that children are our future and no child should be left without the benefit of someone who cares. Faith, Hope and Love are the cornerstone of our Foundation.

Our Core Values
Our Foundation believes that reaching out to and caring about a child in a positive way not only changes a child’s life for the better but changes the future for the better! One heart, One mind, One life at a time…we can make this world a better and a more peaceful place for future generations.

Help To Rebuild New Orleans www.nolaboroflove.com

New Orleans: A Labor of Love is a grass-roots, multi-media, public awareness campaign to mobilize 5,000 volunteers to participate in reconstructing the city during 2008. Awareness about the city’s ongoing need for volunteers is being raised through screenings and videocasts of New Orleans: A Labor of Love documentary, which follows 18 Los Angeles Valley College students and their professor during their recent volunteering experience.

“Gentrification is becoming an undeniable trend in the New York City metropolitan area, almost identical to the issue destroying the lives of thousands of "internal refugees" and low income residents in the Gulf Coast area today.” - Theo Moore, lead organizer at Families United for Racial and Economical Equality (FUREE)

Congress is expected to take up the issue of one for one replacement of housing in New Orleans. The announced support of Senators Clinton, Edwards, Obama, and Reid is expected to help push the new law through. Senator David Vitter (R-LA) continues to oppose the bill, but his opposition is being challenged.

The displacement of tens of thousands of people in New Orleans is now expected to be permanent because of both a current shortage of affordable housing and the lack of plans to create affordable rental housing for tens of thousands of those displaced.

Internationally, New Orleans expects to join the Zero Evictions Campaign. Look for developments at: http://www.habitants.org/article/articleview/1449/1/276/

The companies developing new housing on the site of 4500 units facing demolition in New Orleans are:

C.J. Peete – McCormack Baron Salazar and KAI Design & Build
B.W. Cooper – KBK and BWC Resident Management Corporation
St. Bernard – Fore! Kids Foundation, Columbia Residential (former partners
of HUD Secretary Jackson) and Baton Rouge Area Foundation
Lafitte – Providence Community Housing and Enterprise Community Partners

See: http://www.hud.gov/news/release.cfm?content=pr07-030.cfm

Other Affordable Housing Update:

FEMA has moved 30,000 hurricane displaced families out of trailers across the gulf – despite severe housing shortage.