Save the date!
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Celebrate Landscape Architecture Month getting your hands dirty!
FIXUP! Mid City is the largest all-volunteer housing repair initiative in Baton Rouge. Since 1993, over 250 homes, 6 schools, and 7 non-profit agencies have been repaired by over 12,000 corporate and community volunteers through the FIXUP! program. By repairing and painting homes of low-income, elderly and disabled residents.
FIXUP! has helped to build a vital sense of community while bringing diverse groups of volunteers into Mid City neighborhoods. MCRA recently brought a new dynamic to FIXUP! by instituting a block concept for the program. All the volunteers and homes are concentrated in the same neighborhood. The block concept creates a community event with all volunteers, homeowners, and homeowner families participating and interacting with each other.
More details, including time and location, to come soon!
