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A group of students from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul have just returned from a week-long trip to New Orleans. Thirty students and three advisors made the trip to help demolish and clean up the area that was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.  

MPR's Cathy Wurzer talked with St. Thomas student Ericka Leahy and St. Thomas ethics professor Bernie Brady, who accompanied the students to New Orleans.  

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Students from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul went to New Orleans to clean up decaying houses still lining neighborhood streets, more than 18 months after Hurricane Katrina flooded the area.  They found rows of empty homes and a community trying to get back on its feet.

Clean-up trip to New Orleans

Photo courtesy of St. Thomas students

photo courtesy of students at St. Thomas University

A row of homes in a neighborhood in New Orleans

MPR Photo/photo courtesy of St. Thomas students

MPR Photo/photo coutresy of St. Thomas students

A pile of garbage in a New Orleans neighborhood

Gulf Coast ghost town

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