See Where Kids Displaced by Hurricane Katrina Ended Up
Young people displaced by the 2005 hurricane reflect on what was lost and gained

Dvhante Woods, Kentrell Joseph and Jevone Johnson Jr. work at Youth Rebuilding New Orleans in New Orleans' Sixth Ward.
Ben Depp
A decade ago, Hurricane Katrina displaced an estimated 160,000 children. School classes were missed, friends were lost and families separated. Not all of them returned, but those who did faced a steep challenge rebuilding an adolescence in a battered hometown. Here are just a few of the thousands of stories about fleeing and rebuilding New Orleans.