After funding struggle, New Orleans YWCA breaks ground on $10M building: 'we moved forward on faith' - Nola.com

After the YWCA of Greater New Orleans’ buildings in Mid-City were wrecked by Hurricane Katrina, it long seemed as if a local institution might never recover.

Because the YWCA didn’t have flood insurance, it had to navigate a series of bureaucratic and financial obstacles to rebuild following the levee failures that flooded the area. But on Tuesday, nonprofit leaders held a groundbreaking for a new, $10 million building that’s meant to host a revived program of day care, women’s education and counseling for victims of rape and domestic violence.

Loyce Pierce Wright, the YWCA’s board president, said that in 17 years she never gave up hope.

“We believed that we could do this, so we moved forward on faith,” she said. “I never, never wavered in my faith that we would be successful.”