Outreach to Teach, NEA's annual school repair project, is always a meaningful affair. But there was something singularly special about this year's effort to repair and beautify Belle Chasse High School, in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, one of the many communities outside of New Orleans forever changed in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina.

"It really hits home to bring this kind of support here," says Brandan Trahan, a junior at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, and student leader of the Louisiana Association of Educators.

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