We got there on Saturday (March 11) and Sunday was our first day of work. There were 3,000 college students out picking up trash. We wanted to let everyone know we were there and what we were doing. We wanted to let people know that we were there to help, not to have a good time.
It gave them hope. And it saved them $3,000. This was in a low-income area. When you walked down the street there would be bikes, toys, stuffed animals there. The people haven't been back. That was hard to believe, six or seven months after (Katrina).