It is time to take a stand to help the Hurricane Katrina Victims. We need to improve tactfully on what has been done and initiate things that has not been done to overcome all of this negativity. There are over 70,000 Katrina victims still struggling to make it in this world in the year of 2007. Many are still homeless, unemployed, separated from families and is in poor health- physically, mentally and socially. Therefore, the Hurricane Katrina Victims are in need of stable housing, permanent source of income, medical care and jobs.



The inability to secure a consistent source of income hinders victims dreams of leasing a new apartment or purchasing a home.



Hurricane Katrina victims have pursued every feasible avenue of assistance, but the government at every level have yet to respond to the victims plight adequately.



What entities are responsible for rebuilding the roughly 300,000 homes destroyed by Katrina? Who should be called to remove the 118 million cubic yards of debris spread throughout the Gulf? Which industries will employ the 70,000 unemployed Katrina victims?



The federal government knows perfectly well that more must be done. And yet given these issues and stark realities, it remains difficult to understand why the U.S. government still fails to adequately provide the basic necessities for the people displaced by the flood.



The federal governments recovery effort continues to be abysmal. It too closely resembles the failures in the immediate wake of Katrinas aftermath. Inept leadership at all levels of government is disheartening, especially as those government bodies promulgate the current sub-par level of recovery assistance. The current deficit of effective leadership tasked with improving the plight of Katrinas victims is troublesome.



But despite our governments failures, I believe that rebuilding New Orleans and the Gulf and aiding the displaced individuals there is perhaps the most realistic goal in the history of Americas constitutional promise to establish justice. All sectors of private industry and philanthropy must coordinate the Herculean effort to restore infrastructure and establish justice.



The victims of Katrina are ready to rebuild. But this process demands unprecedented civic participation, innovative thinking and transformative ideas. Join the movement for rebirth and renewal. Ending the Hurricane Katrina victims' plight is our collective responsibility.



LET'S DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! LET MAKE SURE THEY ARE COMPENSATED FINANCIALLY PERMANENTLY AND WITH STABLE HOUSING AND GOOD JOBS!