Rebuilding the botanical garden
Today Marijn and I helped to rebuild the botanical garden of New Orleans. This garden which is part of the huge city park was under water for more then 90%. Lots of vegetation was lost because of the (salt) water and everything has to be rebuild. This park is solely dependent of gifts and the staff was reduced from 360 to 17 people. So they can use all the help there is . We helped out with the planning of the big Xmas celebration which hopefully will raise enough cash to continue.It still amazes me that the USA can easily destroy two countries in a couple of months, but seems not to be able to rebuild one of their own cities. Let´s face it: New Orleans is still one big mess. After one and a half years, not a lot has been done or accomplished to get this city back on its feet again.
