Video: Picking Up the Pieces

August 29, 2005 forever changed the face of America. Katrina affected not only the landscape and industry of the Gulf Coast, but it affected the people. While New Orleans was not the only area destroyed, none can deny the long term damage done specifically to the Crescent City tearing it down to its core. Now it is time for the youth in America to get involved and Upgrade New Orleans.

Picking up the pieces: college life after Katrina, is the documentary that birthed this movement of youth civic engagement. Designed to prepare other academic communities in the event of a federally declared disaster the documentary chronicles the lives of several students who's lives were forever changed.

Upgrade New Orleans is a model, but we want for the youth in other cities to join the effort to be apart of the solution to problems that are in their respective cities. The movement will include pressuring our elected officials, providing support for various organization and projects and raising resources, both financial and human for the purpose of uplifting New Orleans.

We spend so much time upgrading our meals, our cars, and even our mates...join us as we Upgrade something much more important; OUR COMMUNITIES.