Becky Ritter Quotations

We talked about what would be fun and what would be worthwhile. We were thinking about maybe something like Habitat for Humanity. But everything was either out of our price range or beyond our time frame. Then one of the Campus Crusade members talked to us about either going to Panama City, Florida or New Orleans to help out with Katrina relief and we felt New Orleans would be worthwhile.

It gave them hope. And it saved them $3,000. This was in a low-income area. When you walked down the street there would be bikes, toys, stuffed animals there. The people haven't been back. That was hard to believe, six or seven months after (Katrina).

We got there on Saturday (March 11) and Sunday was our first day of work. There were 3,000 college students out picking up trash. We wanted to let everyone know we were there and what we were doing. We wanted to let people know that we were there to help, not to have a good time.

There was also a concern if we found any dead animals in the house. But the biggest thing, as far as safety, was the mold. We all bought respirator masks before we went down there and we made sure we had those on.