Affiliation: AmeriCorps available at LTRC, Vermilion Faith Community of Care (Serves: Vermillion Parish)

The mission of AmeriCorps*NCCC is to strengthen communities and develop leaders through national and community service. Since 1994, more than 10,000 men and women have served over 15 million hours providing disaster relief, tutoring children, building homes for low-income families, helping preserve the environment, and helping communities meet their challenges. AmeriCorps*NCCC supports faith-based and other community-based organizations; national nonprofits; schools; local municipalities; national and state parks; and Indian tribes.

VFCC has been involved with AmeriCorps projects since 2003, when several teams came down to work with us and United Methodist Disaster Recovery in Lafayette, as we assisted local residents with the repair of their homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Lili, which slammed into the area on October 3, 2002.

We had a team with us mid-January through mid-February of 2005, while we were assisting two partner agencies - HEROD Village and Le Bayou Legendaire - as well as some individual families with some repairs. They also helped tutor young people at Abbeville’s Youth Empowerment Station. We have been delighted to have them with us, and we have tried to ‘treat them right’.

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