Tours of Post-Katrina New Orleans: Bringing Awareness or Taking Advantage?
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I was rught away both angered as well as appalled.
Many of a people affected by Katrina have been still putting their lives back together, as well as companies have been taking debate groups by there?
The tours go by a areas ravaged by Katrina with a apparent devise to educate as well as denote a extinction which still exists today in New Orleans, interlude by leeves anddriving by neighborhoods where we can still see shop-worn houses as well as even a vessel which cleared up in someones yard! Is this only similar to a dive tours in Mumbai or a favela tours in Rio de Janeiro? It is something for people to look during from a reserve of their vans?
So we did a little research.
For a most part, it looks similar to companies have been offered tours as well as pocketing a money. From a websites, its tough to discuss it what their proclivity actually is, either it is truly to educate or either it is to have a little money off of a bad situation.
Then we found Gray Line Tours, as well as although a site has a little gimmicky lines which promise pushing past an actual wharf which breached, it appears which a organisation put a little thought in to creating this business. According to a website, a association was created when members of Congress were resistant about appropriation a rebuilding.
The idea of a debate is to accurately inform visitors about New Orleans, its contribution to a rest of a U.S. as well as why its critical to await a rebirth of a city. There is also a statement during a bottom saying which areas of a city which did not embrace a main concentration of ! media wi ll be visited.
Gray Line is one of a cheapest tours which we found ($35 for adults) as well as will donate $3 from any ticket to one of a internal charities.
Although which looksaltruistic, Im still suspicious.
But on a alternative hand, even if a debate operators proclivity is to have money off of a devastation, couldnt they still move awareness? Visitors have been seeing firsthand which this is still a complaint New Orleansisdealing with, even though a hurricane strike over five years ago.
The law is which there is a lot of work to be done, as well as its easy to say which it is a complaint over there, even when over there is a only a state or a couple of hundred miles away.
This is an issue which they may never be an agreement upon, as well as may be it isnt about right vs. wrong. Maybe it is actually about taking action than taking a tour. Sure, a universe needs to know which New Orleans (and Mumbai as well as Rio de Janeiro) have areas which have been in bad shape, though may be they need help. On a ground, get your hands dirty help.
Get in there as well as have a disproportion instead of looking by a window of a debate van. Habitat for Humanity or FixNOLA.org have been great resources as well as would be a good place to start.
Id love to listen to your thoughts have we taken or would we take a Katrina tour?
Community Connection:
Megan Hill is someone who has volunteered in New Orleans to assistance reconstruct a marshes, which act as healthy barriers. She reflects on her knowledge in New Orleans Five Years After Katrina: Rebuilding Marshes.
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