We just passed the 10 year anniversary of Katrina. Many families have settled back into life as they knew it and others are still rebuilding. Many of us were effected by those rising waters 10 years ago; my husband worked at the Ritz Carlton in the French Quarter with the Jeremy Davenport band. The band moved to St. Louis for 6 months to maintain an income while the Ritz was being rebuilt.
The rebuild in New Orleans was a bit chaotic after Katrina; so many wanting to help out by donating clothes, many household items like furnite, even some Melbourne plantation window shutters. However, with no real direction or an efficient game plan, best efforts were not panning out. This is where Toyota stepped in to help a local non-profit, The St. Bernard Project, create more efficient ways to do their day-to-day work, building homes.
The Toyota Effect – Rebuilding After Hurricane Katrina
This is just one of the examples of how Toyota is encouraging organizations to have a purpose that is more far-reaching and important than making money. It’s about having a lasting and positive impact on the people in our communities, society and the environment. It’s about doing good.
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It’s inspiring to think that a large organization like Toyota is passing on the good by sharing their know-how with non-profits, organizations and even fellow manufactures. With Toyota’s help, NOLA continues to improve and residents are coming home!
Toyota partnered with filmmakers to create a series of short films to document some of the most impactful projects Toyota has embarked on in recent years. Called The Toyota Effect, the series highlights the company’s mission through mini-documentary style films.
See how Toyota used their expertise to help rebuild New Orleans after Katrina in The Toyota Effect’s documentary style series of mini-films here – http://toyota.us/1Pvxrok
This post was created in partnership with Toyota. All opinions expressed in the post are my own and not those of Toyota.
How wonderful of Toyota to be doing this. I can’t even imagine how hard it was to rebuild after that hurricane.
Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst in a long time, and it displaced a ton of people. I’m so glad Toyota is helping people get back to normal in the area.
Toyota is dong a great thing. I can’t believe after this many years that they are still trying to rebuild. I hope more businesses do this.
This is great that businesses like toyota are still coming together to help those affected by Katrina!
I need to check out some of the short films they made. It’s nice to know they’re encouraging other companies to do good!
How wonderful that they are helping out and making a difference! Every little bit helps and it seems Toyota is going above and beyond to help out 🙂
it’s so painful to even look at that photo. I’m so happy to hear that Toyota is helping to make a difference any way they can
Great job Toyota! I love it when big brand step up and do good work for the people.
I love it when companies give back to the community. This is so great of Toyota to share their knowledge with others and allow them to help the community faster.
Kudos to Toyota for doing such a great thing. I hope other companies will join them.
I can’t believe it”s been 10 years already! It’s great to see companies such as Toyota helping out.
Hurricane Katrina displaced many people. Some have recovered, but their are so many who still haven’t been able to return home. It warms my heart to see companies like Toyota reach out to help.
A lot of people assume it was in the past and it doesn’t matter anymore. The truth is these people affected will always be affected. My family loves Toyota and we will love them even more now, this is great!
The hurricane was truly devastating. I can not imagine the life long effects the entire experience has on so many people.
What a great humanitarian action Toyota is doing. MOre companies should think and dow what Toyota does.
What an amazing thing Toyota is doing. I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since Katrina already.
Kudos to Toyota for doing that. We love watching documentaries. Even our tween son loves to watch documentaries too. We’ll check it out.
I love that Toyota is doing this! It’s so wonderful to see companies giving back!
What a disaster, I’m so happy to read this. Toyota is wonderful to be doing such a thing. This is really great. I’m in Canada and this was huge over here too.
I got to see many of the areas that still need re-building on my last trip to New Orleans, it’s great that Toyota is stepping in to help, they still need help out there, and cutting the time it takes to build homes will be super helpful to NOLA residents!
Kudos for Toyota for paying it forward for non profit groups. This will hep many get their homes back soon. I love the idea of little documentaries too.
It is amazing that Toyota is helping out the victims of hurricane Katrina. It may take time to re-build but it’s a relief to know that there are people who are willing to help,
I agree with others. It’s so painful to watch. I felt so bad for these residents and how sad they lived in that mess. So glad to see that rebuilding that area is happening.
It was indeed, still rebuilding today!
I remember when this happen 10 years ago! Such a devastating thing to witness even from afar. It’s great that Toyota is doing something to help those that were affected.
I recently saw a special where it profiled people who never returned, or who are still waiting for assistance from the Hurricane. Good for Toyota for doing something good for those affected.
That’s wonderful that Toyota took part. I have seen the rebuilding after a hurricane and it’s a huge, huge undertaking. The more help the better.
I honestly can’t imagine how hard it must be to rebuild after something as horrible as this. This is a city of very strong people. I am glad that Toyota is doing something to help! Good for them!
It would benefit so many for more companies to do this, glad Toyota is leading the way!
Agreed! We’re still rebuilding but what a difference this has made! 😉