Bill Clinton Joins Brad Pitt In New Orleans

Former President Bill Clinton joined Brad Pitt in New Orleans on Sunday to begin work on the actor’s Make It Right project, which aims to build 150 new affordable homes for Hurricane Katrina victims.

Wearing his signature newsboy cap, Pitt and Clinton toured the Lower 9th Ward where the new homes will be built as hundreds of volunteers helped clean and prepare the land, the Associated Press reports.

“We hope to see a huge change here in the next six months,” Pitt told locals as he signed autographs and posed for photos.

Pitt’s Make It Right project in the Lower 9th Ward was the site for the Clinton Global Initiative University, a three-day program that kicked off Friday.

Through a series of workshops and lectures, CGIU asks college students and universities to develop solutions to global problems.

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Published 3/16/08 by


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