Habitat for Humanity responds: In the coming months, tens of thousands of church and civic groups from across the country will have the opportunity to reach out and assist individual families who are going to have to rebuild their homes — along with their lives. As someone who has participated (in a very unskilled way) with Habitat for Humanity projects, I know Katrina will be their biggest U.S. challenge ever. I can’t conceive of how complex this challenge will be, but know that family-by-family, house-by-house, person-to-person, is the quickest way to rebuild the homes of those without the insurance or means to react and respond like those who do.
