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Common Ground Relief History

Common Ground Relief (CGR) was founded on September 5, 2005 by Malik Rahim, Sharon Johnson, and Scott Crow in the aftermath of Katrina.

Grand Bayou Grass Planting with Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha Village

Marsh Restoration at Grand Bayou

Rewriting the Disaster Narrative in New Orleans through Collaboration and Community

Today, locals in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward call the Bayou Bienvenue Wetlands Triangle a “ghost swamp.”

Common Ground Relief joins the Central Wetlands Reforestation Collective to plant tens of thousands of trees, other vegetation in Central Wetlands

The partners are the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Common Ground Relief, the Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainability

NASA animation of the Mississippi River

A striking NASA animation shows all of the rivers that drain into the Mississippi River.