Beginning on Saturday, March 15, New Orleans Habitat for Humanity will launch a Bench/Bar Building Project. Chief Judge Berrigan and other EDLA judges are participating. Judge Berrigan urges all "able bodied - and not so able bodied" members of the bar and their staffs to likewise join the "Judicial Hammers." No building skills required; just a good sense of humor and an enthusiasm in helping bring homeownership to worthy New Orleans families.

The Bench Bar Build will be every Friday and Saturday from March 15 through May 16.

The completion of our project will also coincide with the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project. Every year, President and Mrs. Carter have taken a week in May to participate in a Habitat build somewhere in the world, bringing with them many Habitat volunteers who go wherever they go. This year, they decided that the Gulf Coast would be the location for the 25th annual "Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project". That will be May 11-16, 2008.