Mr. Dilbert: They said they couldn’t insure my house. I got nothing. It’s hurricane season again and I’m living in a FEMA trailer with my sick wife!

The New Orleans: Labor of Love project is a grassroots public-awareness campaign that’s working to get volunteers down to New Orleans to help rebuild homes in the worst-hit areas of the city. The voice of the project, founder and director Katina Parker, started by making a documentary about eighteen students from Los Angeles who volunteered last year. Segments of the documentary will air this month at the organization website.

“Initially there was day-long coverage of [the Katrina disaster], reporters breaking down reporting the dire situation. That coverage dwindled to FEMA’s blunders, corruption, crime. That doesn’t move people to act. People think it’s too complicated to get involved,” Parker recently told Louisiana writer and blogger Nordette Adams.

Labor of Love has so far raised more than $18,000 in donations and is sponsored by the International Humanities Center, which supports projects “devoted to a vision of ecological and humanitarian stewardship that benefits all creation.” How do you say no to that?