It’s about the lack of focus on education and health care too.” Pitt has pledged more than $5 million to Make it Right, a project to rebuild 150 homes in the Katrina-devastated Lower 9th Ward, one of the city’s most impoverished neighborhoods

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“We’re focused on community building,” Pitt said. “It’s not just about homes. It’s not just about building. It’s about the lack of focus on education and health care too.”

Pitt has pledged more than $5 million to Make it Right, a project to rebuild 150 homes in the Katrina-devastated Lower 9th Ward, one of the city’s most impoverished neighborhoods.

Redlener said his group and the Regional Consortium for Children in the Gulf, a coalition of several groups, have devised a “prescription for what must happen now,” with proposals including:

Dr. Persharon Dixon, who leads the CHF project in Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss., said the post-Katrina-Rita stress has exacerbated children’s chronic health problems such as asthma, but doctors also are seeing more prevalent instances of diabetes and hypertension in them – diseases that weren’t showing up prior to the storms.

“To manage this, they need access to health care on a regular basis,” Dixon said. “We also need to respond to what’s going on with the parents. If we can’t relieve the stress of the parents, who are worrying about whether they can put food on the table or find a place to live, we can’t relieve the stress on the children.”