As the photo shows, I have just received my Certificate of National Service for AmeriCorps -- L*AC, Literacy*AmeriCorps New Orleans.
This is evidence of my completing one full year of teaching and tutoring with our AmeriCorps group. It was a great year, and there is plenty more where that came from. I am still with SVDP-ALC and will return again to L*AC in late September... and still be with SVDP-ALC then too.
Yes, it is something to celebrate and be thankful for. Our Literacy*AmeriCorps New Orleans group finished a few days ago with 17 of us getting certificates. Life in post-Katrina Greater New Orleans has been very, very difficult; but Literacy*AmeriCorps has helped to educate many, many students. And L*AC helped to make possible the first ever regional GED graduation held in Louisiana (held in May at Loyola University). Our group sent teachers/tutors out to eleven different service sites around Greater New Orleans to Delgado Community College, the Hispanic Apostolate, YMCA Educational Services, various programs at the New Orleans Public Library, Ochsner Hospital, NOPLAY, YEP, a host of others ... and, of course, to the St. Vincent de Paul -- Adult Learning Center where I taught and represented L*AC. Furthermore, L*AC helped out many times in our community in various service projects from participating in Earth Fest at Audubon Park, helping with the Literacy Alliance and One Book One New Orleans event supporting the Katrina-flooded 9th Ward and, of course, helping to fix the outside of a house severely damaged in Hurricane Katrina in Lakeview, where many houses were under 8 to 10 feet of toxic flood water.
Our L*AC group did a lot this year to help recovering New Orleans. My thanks to everyone who has helped make this possible.
-- Adrian
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