Bvlbancha mutual aid group/partners you can support
Bvlbancha Collective is a collective of Indigenous people and allied in Bvlbancha (the original Chahta name for New Orleans) who collectively make plant medicine, crafts, and regalia. 75% of our medicine goes back to the Indigenous community in and around Bvlbancha, as well as people in need.
The Greater New Orleans Caring Collective was founding on March 16, 2020 with the intent to keep vulnerable community members safe and indoors during the worldwide Covid19 crisis.
Southern Solidarity is a grassroots, community-based group of volunteers in solidarity with the unhoused in their quest toward liberation. We organize the delivery of food, medical resources and basic needs directly to the unhoused in the downtown area of New Orleans because the government has not filled this need. We are influenced by anti-imperialist principles and mobilized by a black queer woman.
Our Mission is: Defend the rights of immigrants in this country, just like we train ourselves to know our rights. We look for the way to ask to our political leaders for a broad immigration reform that benefits all immigrants.
El Pueblo NOLA - NOLA Village is a grassroots community organization in the Village de l’Est neighborhood of New Orleans East, run by organizer Cristiane Rosales-Fajardo. We serve the Black and brown communities of New Orleans, with specific programs for the underserved Latinx community, in four key areas: Health, Education, Civic and Cultural. Our services include, but are not limited to, free HIV testing, health education, student advocacy, cultural programming, language rights and access, legal resources and know-your-rights trainings. We work to co-create support systems for our community so that members in need can access essential services and participate in mutual aid networks.
Rise St. James is a faith-based grassroots organization that is fighting for environmental justice and working to defeat the proliferation of petrochemical industries in St. James Parish, Louisiana and throughout the Gulf Coast. Led by Sharon Lavigne, the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize winner, Rise St. James continues to galvanize community opposition to the construction of a $1.25 billion plastics manufacturing plant near a small residential community.