Image Library

A collection of images that represent the work and mission of the consortium.

Photos by Tyrone Turner/UMCOR.  Please credit all Photos when using them.

Catholic Charities client, Michael Crawford smiles while interacting with his case manager Sara Galliano.

“Miranda is an angel from God. If it wasn’t for her I don’t know what I would have done,” says Jeanne Purdom, of her Society of St. Vincent de Paul case manager. Purdom is pictured here in New Orleans seated in the taxi Miranda helped her retain in the aftermath of Katrina.

Voice of America case manager, Peggy Davis talks with fellow church member and volunteer, Victoria Brown.

Boat People SOS client, five-year-old Tho Troung, plays near his FEMA trailer in Plaquemine’s Parish, La.

Torrie Sisung, a Catholic Charities client hugs her mother Lionor Samarripas and son Mario at her home near New Orleans, La.

Boat People SOS case manager, Phu Nguyen talks with a client in his office.

Boat People case manager Phu Kim Nguyen (left) talks with her client Neang Pum in front of the boat the Cambodian fisherwoman is repairing in Plaquemine Parish, La.

Volunteers of American case manager Peggy Davis glances out of the window of her New Orleans, La. church, where her husband is pastor. Volunteers repaired the church in August.

Houses that Hurricane Katrina destroyed in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, La.

Phinoc Truong, 6, in grey Tho Truong, 5, in red play on their grandfather’s boat that he is restoring. The boat was tangled in utility wires, which kept it from being washed out to sea.

Catholic Charities client, Michael Crawford and his case manager Sara Galliano map out an evacuation plan for Michael in case of another hurricane.

Torrie Sisung, a Catholic Charities client hugs her  son Mario at her home in Gretna, La.

Society of St. Vincent de Paul client, Eula Phillips, holds a photo of the land on which her home once stood in Plaquemines Parish, La.

Society of St. Vincent de Paul client Eula Phillips, 75, chats with visitors to about her home she lost in Plaquemines Parish, La. and her plans to rebuild.

Boat People SOS client Neang Pum’s boyfriend and partner who is helping her fix her boat in Plaquemines Parish, La.

Boat People SOS client Neang Pum chats with case manager Phu Nguyen in her FEMA trailer.

Boat People SOS Client Neang Pum’s boat she is rebuilding so she can return to her work as a fisherwoman.

Boat People SOS case manager Phu Nguyen helps a client in his office.

A destroyed house in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.

Catholic Charities client, Michael Crawford loves his new home that his case manager helped him to obtain. “Now, I can cook my red beans and rice the way I like them,” he said, grinning and nodding his head.

“I’m just not the type of person who takes advantage of a situation. I know people who lost everything,” says Catholic Charities client Torrie Sisung. “I told them to let the people who really need help have the trailers. My house is torn up, but it’s livable.”

Catholic Charities client, Katherine Romairo cuddles with son, Rock.

A FEMA trailer sits in front of houses in Gretna, La.

Jeanne Purdom, a Society of St. Vincent de Paul client hangs out in the French Quarter waiting looking for a fare.

“I don’t have time to think about the next storm,” said Peggy Davis, aVolunteers of America case manager. “All I can do is get up in the morning and meet my calendar. If I can do that I feel successful.”