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The Invisible Children Gulf Coast Team will be working alongside New Orleans families on gutting and rebuilding efforts for two months through the Katrina Project: New Hope for New Life.
Check out one of these great organizations also doing work in the hurricane affected areas. Visit their websites and find out how you can get involved in rebuilding the Gulf Coast.
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Invisible Children's second National tour is bigger and better than ever! Team Gulf Coast is gonna tear it up. So get on the phone, call 619-631-0362, and plan a screening...it can be your high school, middle school, college, church, local coffee shop, ANYTHING! Just get the word out, because team Gulf Coast is coming your way. Jump on board at
Check the dates below to see when we'll be in your area!
New Orleans, LA........January 15th - January 27th (Relief Work/Screenings)
Starkville, MS................................................January 28th - January 31st
Oxford, MS....................................................Februa
ry 1st - February 3rd
Pineville, LA...................................................Februar
y 4th - February 5th
Monroe & Ruston, LA.....................................February 6th - February 9th
Lafayette, LA..............................................February 10th - February 13th
Baton Rouge, LA.........................................February 14th - February 18th
New Orleans *Mardi Gras*.........................February 19th - February 20th
Hattiesburg, MS.........................................February 21st - February 25th
New Orleans, LA...........February 26th - April 7th (Relief Work/Screenings)
Jackson, MS..........................................................
...April 8th - April 11th
Shreveport, LA.......................................................Apr
il 12th - April 15th
New Orleans, LA.....................................................April
16th - April 28th
Meet the team:
Sandra Sepulveda was born on the beautiful isle of Puerto Rico. She moved to the States at a young age and was raised in a small town in northern Michigan. She still calls that great state home and remains an avid U of M Wolverines fan. Before coming to Invisible Children Sandra was attending Grand Valley State University and studying nursing there. It was at that university where she first learned of Invisible Children, when last tour’s Midwest team rolled through town and shared the story. Sandra knew that she had to do more than just watch, so she decided to take a break from her nursing studies and she signed up for the World Tour 2007. Sandra recently had the opportunity to travel to Uganda to meet the people there face to face. She didn’t want to leave Uganda, but she can’t wait to hit the road and share her experiences and love for Uganda with the rest of America.
Johnny Parker was born in ’85 on a reservation in South Dakota. He learned about rain in Seattle and moved to Portland as a child to study it more in depth. His formal education involved the analysis of Human Development and Family Sciences – things that he thinks are rather important. Sitting on his front porch in Eugene one day, he realized he was bored. He went to Uganda and it changed his life. IC is creating a positive change and is currently a medium for the expression of his passion to serve oppressed people. Saul Bellow, Jack Kerouac, Dave Eggers, and James Wright are among the influential writers and poets who have inspired him. He likes to practice writing, and because of these writers mentioned, he has hope. His primary interests revolve around the management of lumber, brick, ore, wheat, and sheep. He likes his coffee black. After tour, Johnny has plans for travel through Europe and Africa with the intention of eventually finding his way back to Uganda. He hopes that he can reflect an earnest expression of life through his speech and actions. Johnny wants to be free.
Eric Mecca is from the tiny mountain town of Dubois, Wyoming. Though he has a deep love for the wild Wyoming frontier, a place he will forever call home, Eric has always been drawn to the far reaches of the earth and knows that he will live out his life as a traveler. Eric finds the vastness of our world captivating, and hopes to spend his days experiencing humanity in all its shapes and forms across the globe. His favorite memories are of hiking the mountains of Wyoming, sailing a tall ship through the Caribbean, and driving an RV across "Middle America" during Invisible Children's first National Tour. Eric came back for the World Tour 2007 because he believes that people have such a beautiful potential for good, and he loves playing even a small part in the social transformation from apathy to action.
Amy Collins is a native of the beautiful Colorado Springs. She just graduated from Baylor University with a degree in film and has yet to stay in one place since college. She left the corporate world to jump on an RV with three strangers traveling the heartland of America on the first national tour. Since she got back from the tour, she was hired to help in the film department at Invisible Children but knew that her heart was on the road. In fact, her dream would be to bring stories of suffering and injustice to life all across the globe. So this Spring, she is headed back on the road and can't wait for the opportunity to serve the people of New Orleans. Be sure to keep her address down in pencil because she isn't planning on leaving the nomadic life anytime soon.
