Read about PBHA-A’s Service Trip in Collaboration with HAA

PBHA-Alumni’s Service Trip in Collaboration with HAA
Making good on its mission of bringing alumni to service, PBHA and PBHA-Alumni worked with the Harvard Alumni Association to develop a week-long service trip this spring for alumni (and their children) to East New Orleans, LA from March 14-21, 2010 where Alumni worked with Dillard University to paint a newly renovated community center in the Seventh Ward.

The enormous contributions and positive experience of the group have convinced the PBHA-Alumni and HAA that our collaborative effort in providing service trips for alumni is a worthwhile endeavor. Nick “Bubba” Harris and Dillard University are similarly enthusiastic about continuing this relationship, and we will be working early this summer about service trip offerings for next year.

Check out pictures from this year’s trip: http://picasaweb.google.com/PBHAphotos/PBHAA#

A great recap of the trip is on Kristen’s HAA Travels Blog:
http://alumni.harvard.edu/haa/travel/blog

Or, read the Harvard Gazette article:
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/03/rolling-up-their-sleeves/

Finally, the group was visited by a CBS Affiliate in New Orleans (WWLTV):
www.wwltv.com/video/featured-videos/Harvard-alums-volunteer-with-Dillard-students-to-rebuild-homes-88263277.html

UPCOMING SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES IN APRIL
*Volunteer with the HAA Global Month of Service (17 cities worldwide).
*Join PBHA on April 27 for its Auction to Benefit the Summer Urban Program.

WEBSITES
Finally, websites of organizations that the group encountered during the week are listed below.

*Dillard University Community Development Corporation:
www.dillard.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=295&Itemid=237

*New Orleans College Prep School:
www.nolacollegeprep.org/default.php

*Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans: http://www.nhsnola.org/

*Broadmoor Improvement Association/Broadmoor Community: Development Corporation http://www.broadmoorimprovement.com/

*Innocence Project New Orleans:
www.ip-no.org/

*Info on all HAA Shared Interest Groups:
http://www.clubsandsigs.harvard.edu/

*HAA Travels
http://www.alumni.harvard.edu/haa/travel