The concern about these schemes is that there is so many of them, that often they cut across each other and a lot of effort, as we saw, goes into complying with the terms of the scheme rather than actually or morally rebuilding a community.
"These houses of worship are conduits of healing and rebuilding in the community, while lacking the resources to address their own structural damage, " said Smith.
Reed himself lost friends and family in the disaster "and remains resolute in his desire to assist in the rebuilding of his community, " Sibley said, cautioning against any rush to judgment.
President Obama today promised residents of Staten Island his support as they begin the long process of rebuilding their devastated community just two weeks after Hurricane Sandy tore its path of destruction through the New York City borough.
Projects carried out by UNESCO in Haiti, for example, have found that the vibrant local culture plays an important part in rebuilding a sense of community after disasters and is a key asset during the difficult process of rebuilding.
Together, consumers can start rebuilding the economy from the community up.
Critics say it would be better (and probably cheaper) to give ex-public-housing residents vouchers that enable them to settle all through the community rather than rebuilding large, failed estates.
Anyway, the little dam there had been breeched, and rebuilding that would have been more than our community could manage.
For them, Nagin is the mayor who was tasked not only with rebuilding New Orleans but also uniting a divided community and restoring the sense of faith that was destroyed after Katrina.
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After the disaster, the city created a ten-year plan for rebuilding, introducing zones for economic development, tax incentives, community panels for planning and a host of other measures aimed at revitalization.
It also reduces Community Block Development Grants, which have been vital in rebuilding Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina, and federal marketing programs for locally grown agricultural products.
And what has happened is, is that this community has actually used the crisis as an opportunity to start rebuilding, and try and experiment with new ways of learning.
There are countless opportunities to serve your community, whether it is by volunteering at your local soup kitchen or rebuilding a school!
If a local currency were used to pay for rebuilding, the money would go to people who would spend it elsewhere in the community.
Because of the Recovery Act that I signed into law last month -- and that your two outstanding senators, Feinstein and Boxer, worked so hard to pass -- we're making major investments to create jobs right here in California: rebuilding infrastructure, weatherizing homes, and putting more police on the streets, supporting community health centers.
You started your career of service as a community organizer and now we are hearing from people like -- organizations like the CBC is saying rebuilding our economy on the backs of the most vulnerable Americans is something that is simply not acceptable, like the cuts to the Community Service Block Grants, Pell Grants, heating oil assistance, and freezing salaries of federal workers.
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One reason Howard Beach residents are rebuilding, and are getting disaster assistance on a large scale to do it, may be that it is a community of homeowners, more so than city neighborhoods.
Mr. MOSES: Part of what we try to do is we want people in Boston, we want people in Oakland, people in Texas, people in Chicago to see a connection between what the band is doing as they're rebuilding as a band, as the city is rebuilding as a city, and the issues that they're struggling with on a personal level and at a community level.
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