Some are picking up hammers and packaging food for the homeless
Some athletes and celebrities who are in New Orleans for Super Bowl weekend are picking up hammers and packaging food for the homeless in the big game's host city.
The downtown area where most Super Bowl festivities will happen has arguably never looked better, with a renovated Superdome and resurfaced streets and sidewalks.
But out-lying neighborhoods still bear the scars of 2005, when levees collapsed during Hurricane Katrina.
One of the city's biggest areas of need is housing. While in town, some athletes and celebrities are working with Habitat for Humanity and Rebuilding Together. Others are working with Make-A-Wish Foundation and the food bank Second Harvest.
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