Hike for KaTREEna
REPLANTING NEW ORLEANS
6,500 trees and counting
You can help Hike for KaTREEna
win $50,000 (and that means a LOT of trees!)
Head to Starbucks between Sept
1st & 27th and vote for us.
From September 1-27, if you make a purchase in one of 21 participating Starbucks stores
in the Greater New Orleans area
you'll receive a token you can drop into a voting bank to show your support for your favorite cause.
Three local organizations have been selected as beneficiaries:
the Young Leadership Council, which engages young
professionals in community projects; KaBOOM!, whose mission is to create play spaces within walking distance of every child in
America; and Hike for KaTREEna (that's us!) whose aim is to replant trees
that were lost during the disaster.
The organization with the most
votes will receive a $50,000 grant, and the runners-up will each receive $25,000 grants.
New Planting Season is On!
To commemorate the 5th
anniversary of Hurricane Katrina we planted 750 trees in Gentilly.
Our other scheduled
plantings for 2010 , are:
Sept 25th, Pines
Village in Gentilly October 9th, St. Claude Avenue October
23rd, Lakeview November 13th, Lakeview
All plantings start at
9am and finish by noon.
Feel free to
email us to let us know you're interested in being
on our exclusive list of planters.
Donate by check payable to: Hike for
KaTREEna, P.O. Box 19516, New Orleans, LA 70179
Hike for KaTREEna featured on CBS Nightly News on
5th
anniversary of Katrina
Over 100,000 trees lost...
New Orleans suffered many losses in Katrina and its aftermath.
One of the major casualties was the city's trees. Over 100,000
were lost, including most of the beautiful magnolias and many
live oaks.
In 2006, lifelong New Orleans resident Monique Pilié hiked the
2175 miles of the Appalachian Trail, starting in Georgia and ending in Maine.
Her goal was to raise awareness of the storm's impact on the city's treescape
and to raise enough money to plant one tree in New Orleans for every mile she
hiked. To that end she started a non-profit organization called "Hike for
KaTREEna".
On October 7 2006, after six months hiking, she
finished the Appalachian Trail, arriving at Mt Katahdin in
Maine. During the hike she raised thousands of dollars.
Monique, together with hundreds of Hike for KaTREEna volunteers
and local and national groups has continued that fundraising effort and planted
thousands of trees. But to reach our new goal of 100,000 trees, we'll need a lot
of support. Will you be one of our sponsors?
Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast and
the levees give way in New Orleans.
September 2005
New Orleans loses over 100,000 trees in
Katrina's aftermath.
April 2006
Monique Pilié hikes the Appalachian Trail
in order to raise money to plant a tree for each mile
she hikes.
October 2006
Monique completes the 2175-mile hike.
Late 2006
Hike for KaTREEna begins planting trees in
New Orleans.
October 30, 2008
We plant the 2175th tree.
October 30, 2008
Hike for KaTREEna announces its new goal -
to plant 100,000 trees in the Greater New Orleans area
February 12, 2009
We've now planted 3574 trees. That's almost
1400 trees planted in the first half of this planting
season!
March, 2009
We pass the 4,000 tree mark.
September, 2009
We pass the 5,000 tree mark!
Right now
Our 4th planting season is in full swing
and we've planted more than 5,500 trees.
View our video: Hike for KaTREEna - A Potted History
Click the video to view it directly on YouTube, where you'll be able to rate it, leave comments and share it with others, so we can spread the word
about Hike for KaTREEna.
Thanks to Bonnie Raitt, Capitol Records, Randall Bramblett, Davis Causey,
Blue Ceiling Music and Last House Music for permission to use "God Was in the Water" as the soundtrack.
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Hike for KaTREEna is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
All donations and sponsorships are tax deductible.
