Quotes by Heidi Fieselmann

“You really feel a connection to the work youre doing because you meet the people youre helping and for the most part theyre working alongside you.”

“While New Orleans needs money, at this point it desperately needs volunteers to help the hundreds of thousands of people who dont have the resources to get carpenters and contractors to fix their houses. They need motivated college students.”

“There were houses on top of houses, cars on trees, and abandoned cars everywhere. It looked like a complete war zone. There is no way certain sections of the Lower 9th Ward can be rebuilt. They just have to start over. The houses that were left werent even houses, they were just piles of wood.”

“On Tuesday, our job was to move furniture out of this one house. There was mold on the carpet, mold on the wall, mold on the ceiling. It was just disgusting.”

“Youre living in tents. Youre basically working from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep. Its one of the most rewarding things Ive ever done.”

“Were basically trying to work all angles.”

“There were a bunch of really funny [mascot ideas[, but they would not pass through the Board of Managers or administration.”