Since early March, Neo Jazz (a division of Builders of the Highway Foundation) have expanded our solidarity efforts to support Familias Unidas en Accion during the Covid-19 pandemic. We need your help to support families, especially those with young children, who are in need of food and economic aid. Most people in New Orleans have lost their jobs due to Covid-19; this crisis is hitting our immigrant community particularly hard. In addition, undocumented and very low-income people will not be eligible for the funds provided by the federal government relief package.

Join us in the work of helping those particularly vulnerable in this crisis--those ineligible for government aid and facing an urgent shortage of basic needs, economic empowerment, and physical safety due to the COVID-19 crisis. 

Click here to Donate to Familias Unidas En Accion

About Neo Jazz School of Music
Since 2004, Neo Jazz providing programs and services to students in low-income areas or communities without access to arts education, and combatting the decrease of arts programs in public schools. Upon its relocation in New Orleans in 2012, it merged as a subsidiary of Builders of the Highway Foundation with the distinct purpose of expanding capacity beyond music and arts education to fulfill the role of a "community cultural hub." We continue to expand our network by forging relationships with community partners such as True Love Movement, Backyard Garden Network, and others.
Support for Neo Jazz School of Music helps to create programs such as T.A.K.E (Talent Advancement through Knowledge and Empowerment) for children ages 5-12 to have space and resource to explore a music education. 

About Familias Unidas en Accion
Familias Unidas began in 2018, offering housing, food, and skill training (like sewing classes) to recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers. Their goal: create a safety net upon arrival for migrants with no support networks, focusing on Central American indigenous and Garifuna people, who often do not speak English or Spanish. 
Given the current crisis, Familias Unidas (in solidarity with Bancha Lenguas and Cooperation New Orleans) shifted the scope of their outreach and scaled up their operation. Each week they deliver food supplies to almost 500, mostly undocumented and/or asylum-seeking families.