A year after the majority of people in New Orleans lost every thing to Hurricane Katrina, most of them are still struggling to pick themselves up and rebuild their lives. The thousands of people throughout Louisiana that were once relocated temporarily away from their homes in FEMA trailer parks are still living in them a year later. The largest of the parks in the state is called Renaissance Village, and is located an hour north of New Orleans in Baker, where anywhere from 1, 500 to 2, 000 Katrina evacuees live in close to 700 small trailers. The cramped living conditions of the trailers, and the lack of resources available to create change, are among the many reasons why these parks are not conducive to living. The People here are fighting major depression and have no means to get out of these living conditions. They also are feeling neglected and forgotten by the rest of America and are struggling to keep hope alive for a better future.

Stephen Curling, who lost his home and all his possession once to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, lost everything again when his FEMA issued trailer burned down right before his eyes. He received another trailer shortly after, but is still hurting from losing everything again and even out of desperation said that he should have burned in the trailer too. 'It might have been better if I would have burned up in that thing,' Curling said.

Nita Gentris, 33, comforts her five-year-old child, Shavana Walker, after she fell from the stairs of her trailer. Gentris hopes that spending more time with her two young children will insulate them from the trials of the past year in addition to the stress of living in the park.

Shaqreisha Ross, 18, who is eight months pregnant, counts all the money she has on the floor of her father trailer. Ross says she does not want to raise her child in the trailer park and wants to leave as soon as she can because she says the park is not a safe place to raise children.

Jatasha, 6, who's parents refused to give her full name, smokes a cigarette after finding a pack on a near by picnic table. Kids in the park sometimes use adult vices to deal with the stress of living in the trailer park.

Wilbert Ross, watches his one year-old-grandson Mauqull Ross lean out the window of their trailer during the heat of the day. He lives in a small one bedroom trail with his 18-year old daughter, his 15-year-old daughter her one-year-old son, and his 20-year-old son. Wilbert knows the park is not a place to raise children so he wants to support his grandson during this time in his life.

The only recreation that children and teenagers have in the park is on one basketball court where every evening when the temperature goes down they play games until the sun sets.

Angela Tillman, 40, has been living alone since her husband died of a heart attack two months prior on the couch right in her trailer because of a systematic infection he got swimming from their house in the lower Ninth Ward to a near by overpass after. Tillman has been fight depression since her husband's death and has no money or job to get herself out the trailer park.