Greater New Orleans UU updates http://gnouu.org 2010-09-07T02:54:32+01:00 http://gnouu.org http://gnouu.org/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2010-05-31T11:32:24+01:00 http://gnouu.org http://gnouu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=106&Itemid=61 The long-awaited GNOUU Capital Campaign Request Video (http://www.newdigitalmediagroup.com/gnouu.html) is now on the GNOUU site. Click to view, adjust the sound to suit you. text/html 2010-05-19T19:51:58+01:00 http://gnouu.org http://gnouu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=105&Itemid=61 It's Not Over Yet! (http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/1901223) Is a beautiful tribute to New Orleans recently published in New York Social Diary--read it! text/html 2010-04-30T13:43:16+01:00 http://gnouu.org http://gnouu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=103&Itemid=61 The Joint Earth Day Service was held at the Ancient Grandmother Oak in Audubon Park, April 18, 2010. The first photo is Lydia Pe'lot-Hobbs, RE Director at First Church, reading to the kids attending our joint Earth Day Service.The second photo is a group shot of the youth group from First Parish Needham, Massachusetts, in New Orleans to work with the New Orleans Rebirth Volunteer Program. They attended the Earth Day service along with Rev. Dr. John Buehrens, who is a Ministerial Co-Chair of the GNOUU campaign. text/html 2010-04-05T20:43:33+01:00 http://gnouu.org http://gnouu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99&Itemid=61 Haiti was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on January 12, 2010. Its epicenter was near the town of Léogâne, approximately 25 km (16 miles) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital.UUSC/UUA Joint Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund: $1,779,692.739 - 4/2/10When Port-au-Prince, Haiti was rocked by a catastrophic earthquake on January 12, 2010, it affected close to 3.5 million people, leaving hundreds of thousands dead and causing untold suffering for those who survived. By now, nearly a month after the disaster, these consequences are well known.Less familiar is that while the large-scale international aid response remained bottlenecked for weeks, local Haitian organizations and impromptu volunteer groups responded immediately, enacting compassionate concern for each other by digging through the rubble for survivors, finding food and water, building makeshift tent cities, and providing medical care.Haiti is the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. Rife with radical inequality, its society systematically leaves out large numbers of people. For them, daily survival was a challenge even before the earthquake. Now life is indescribably more difficult. At the same time, as hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors stream out of the city in search of water, food, medicine, and shelter, the very structure of the Haitian countryside is changing. Many...