CNS STORY: Out-of-town volunteers offer helping hand toward New Orleans recovery

CNS STORY: Out-of-town volunteers offer helping hand toward New Orleans recovery: "NEW ORLEANS (CNS) -- Since Hurricane Katrina, hands have been reaching out to New Orleans from all over the world -- hands that want to help New Orleans begin its journey down the road to recovery.

On Thanksgiving weekend, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New Orleans planned to launch Operation Helping Hands, bringing in volunteers from across the country to do the manual work that is so necessary to begin the process of rebuilding New Orleans."