The Rebirth of New Orleans - 5 Years After Katrina

From National Jesuit News
On August 29, 2005, New Orleans experienced one of the worse natural disasters in U.S. history. While the city escaped a direct hit from Hurricane Katrina, the rising waters breached the levees that surround the city, leaving 80 percent of New Orleans under water. Five years later, New Orleans is a city rebuilding.
There has been a strong Jesuit presence in New Orleans from the days of the city's founding over 300 years ago. The Jesuits have been in New Orleans in times of crisis like typhoid and yellow fever outbreaks at the turn of the 19th century and when the city flooded previously in the 1920s. Jesuit works like Good Shepherd Nativity School, which provides educational opportunities to disadvantaged children in the city, and Café Reconcile, a youth training program that provides on the job training in its restaurant, continue to help the city look toward a vibrant future. Schools like Loyola University and Jesuit High School continue to provide top notch education opportunities, while the Harry Thompson Center, a day shelter for the city's homeless, reach out to the city's most vulnerable. Today, the Jesuits continue to serve the spiritual needs of people of New Orleans and will continue be there for the city as it rebuilds and recovers.

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[NationalJesuitNews]

Hello Geekg3rl! You have a good ear; that is indeed Fr. Robert from TechStop/Gadgets fame as the voiceover narrator. He was also our cameraman and editor. We really appreciated all his help on this project. And thank you for taking the time to watch the video and remember the people of New Orleans and the Jesuits who are still working to make the city into a model for the rest of the nation.

[geekg3rl]

@NationalJesuitNews,

I knew it! I havve been watching Fr. Robert on gadget for three years.

Did he make this video or did you hire him to do the voice work? Is that why he doesn't do many gadgettts videos anymore? If he going to make more of these?

[NationalJesuitNews]

@geekg3rl Fr. Robert was the shooter and the editor on this Katrina piece for us; and he did a great job! I know he's got more Gadgets planned...you should see all the cool toys that he's got in his office just waiting for his reviews!

[geekg3rl]

By the way. The narrator, is that Fr. Robert the uberGeek? It sounds like the guy on the gadgettts channel.

[geekg3rl]

I found this video on Tech Stop. It's troubling to think of how quickly New Orleans fell off our collective radar. It's almost as if we can't have compassion for people for more than a month at a time. (Asia after the Tsunami, Haiti, Katrina, Pakistan)

Sad