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Loris Ebanks cries discussing the volunteers from across the country that have come to help rebuild following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in the entry of the Touro Synagogue on St. Charles Street in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana on March 10, 2008. The group of "voluntourists" from Glencoe, Illinois is traveling to New Orleans to combine traditional tourism with volunteer work in the aftermath of the devastation wrought by Hurrica Katrina in 2005.
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