Let The Communities Rebuild Themselves

If anyone has ears to hear, please let the citizens of New Orleans rebuild their community. Give them the tools, but let them do it.

There is a deep sense of appreciation and community togetherness when people who have been tramatized and suffered, work together to build their community again. They have a greater feeling of accomplishment and in some ways can be a great therapy of hope. There is a sense of inner and outer worth when you include people that should be included in projects that involve them.

These community citizens likely need some leadership and direction in certain expertise, like community planning and layout for sub-sea level habitats (get some experts from Holland and Venice, please), architects with knowledge of sub-sea level building design (the same building constructed in Iowa will not work in a water logged swamp), assessing each community member's skills and assigning them paying jobs and further paid training to bring them to the best of their abilities and bring their community back, hopefully better than before.

Letting an outside contractor do all this work just strips the community of their bond, forcing them to abandon it and look elsewhere for community.