>Supplies must come from all over the country and from other countries as well. However, the hard work must be done by the inhabitants themselves. There are more than enough inhabitants who are capable enough, who at least temporarilly lost their job and are all too willing to start working in the streets that they also know far better than any outsider. Moreover, it is better for their selfesteem.


Actually I was thinking the same thing. Pay them for their work and let them have some pride in their work and in their city. I agree totally. There must be hundreds, it not thousands, New Orleans that are capable.