A growing number of college students choose to spend their spring break volunteering in communities across the United States and the world. A group of students from Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, worked on disaster relief in New Orleans.

Fifteen of them emptied the flooded house of Robert Wood. The 80-year-old has been evacuated in Jefferson Parish after Hurricane Katrina hit the city on August 29, 2005. He had not received any help, until the volunteers arrived.