From Louisiana-
These days, Sylvia Blanchard of Gentilly can't help but smile as she looks around her newly repaired home.
"It was like a mircale, it just was a miracle to me, you know I didn't think this would happen."
But there was so little to smile about three years ago about when her husband Anthony, a VIetnam Veteran with three Purple Hearts had a serious stroke that left him disabled on the day the Road Home turned him down for the second time.
"He had a massive stroke, went to the Road Home, and they gave him the run around, and fooled around, and he had a massive stroke, and been down ever since."
"It was one of those cases that just broke my heart," said Connie Uddo of the St. Paul's Homecoming Center. "It literally ripped me in two. I remember driving home and feeling sick to my stomach, crying."
But the despair turned into a celebration last month when the Blanchard home was completed, blessed, and the ribbon cut. The St. Paul's Episcopal Church Homecoming Center joined forces with Episcopal Community Services, and they brought in more than one thousand volunteers to finish the Blanchard home.
"36 volunteer groups on this house over the last two years," said a smiling Connie Uddo. "We finally were doing it, so it was Oh Happy Day!"
More here-
http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/Action-Report-Episcopal-Groups-Help-Katrina-Victims-96915699.html
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I was in New Orleans last week and was reminded just how much of an imprint Katrina left on the lives of those who live there. Five years later houses are still boarded up and others are being repaired. Help is still needed!
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