Tag: Lower 9th Ward

For 35 children from New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, the Memorial Day weekend was packed with new and sometimes thrilling experiences — like riding horses on a working farm and creating collage squares for a “vision” quilt. The occasion was a three-day camp exploring the arts, identity, and health — organized by Berkeley students’ Magnolia Project and developed out of the campus’s new Shinnyo-en Peacebuilding Leadership Program.