My son Andrew has been working for Katrina relief in New Orleans and Mississippi since September, 2005.

Andrew is a Senior at the Brooks School (North Andover, MA) and founded Students Helping Students (SHS) in the Fall, 2005 to help students ravaged by Katrina. Through his and the efforts of the Brooks School, in the Fall of 2005, they brought two students from the New Orleans area to Brooks for the school year. Their schools were wiped out by Katrina, and Andrew and the Brooks School provided relief to these students.

In the Summer of 2006, Andrew directed his attention to the less-publicized Gulfport, Mississippi and I-10 area. He spent time this Summer working to rebuild an elementary school, the St Thomas-St Paul School in Long Beach, Mississippi. When Andrew returned, he produced a video documentary to raise money to rebuild the school.  To date, he and his SHS organization has tirelessly worked to raise more than $40,000.

As my son Andrew says, I am here “to make this world a better place,”

I want to thank you for your attention to this. I hope that something inspirational is possible here, and that you can help increase this awareness in your outstanding Katrina series.

Louis Frisina