by Beth Herstein

Three weeks ago approximately 150 women, all volunteers, rolled up their sleeves and helped renovate gutted homes just outside of New Orleans, as part of the Women's Rebuild Week of the nonprofit St. Bernard Project .

Liz McCartney, the Project’s co-director, states that participants in Women’s Rebuild continue the work of the organization generally, rebuilding homes in St. Bernard Parish (a parish is what other States call a “county”) in Louisiana.

“It’s a great opportunity for women both locally and out of town to be a part of the solution, and also to interact and hear from each other,” McCartney told WVFC a while back. “People really, really love it.” As a result of its popularity, for the first time Saint Bernard Project is adding a second Women’s Rebuild later this year, from October 12 to 17, 2009.

Read more at Women's Voices For Change.

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