Nola to Angola's Spring Brake

NOLA to Angola is hosting Spring Brake, our second annual spring fundraiser. We are excited to be raising funds for Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children, Louisiana Center for Children's Rights, Operation Restoration, & Ubuntu Village. Riders will complete a 10-mile bike ride around New Orleans, hearing about the important work our community partners are doing.

Incarceration touches all of our lives. But it impacts people disproportionately based on race and class, and tragically, across all age groups. The heightened police presence and harsh school policies in New Orleans have created a school to prison pipeline, meaning the state is incarcerating young people in shocking numbers, thereby dividing our communities with greater permanency. 

Our partner organizations are dedicated to fighting mass incarceration among Louisiana's young people. Read more about their amazing work below and please make a donation to support them!

For more information about this event or to register to join us on April 6th, please visit www.nolatoangola.org.

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Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children: Our mission is to create a better life for all of Louisiana’s youth, especially those involved in or targeted by the juvenile justice system. Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children is a grassroots, state-wide, membership-based, inter-generational organization working to transform the systems that put children at risk of prison. Through empowerment, leadership development, and training we strive to keep children from going to prison and support those who have and their families.

Louisiana Center for Children's Rights: Using direct representation and advocacy, we fight to keep children out of the justice system so that they can thrive in their homes and communities. We envision a Louisiana where every child, no matter their race or class, is free to be a kid and supported in becoming a healthy adult.

Operation Restoration: Operation Restoration supports women and girls impacted by incarceration to recognize their full potential, restore their lives, and discover new possibilities. We believe that focusing on achieving successful reentry through the advancement of higher education gives women the confidence, faith and wherewithal to endure. Operation Restoration helps in eradicating the individual and structural barriers to higher education, while establishing economic security, long term stability, and civic participation for women who have criminal convictions (including those currently and formerly incarcerated) and their families.  

Ubuntu Village: Ubuntu’s mission is to provide programming that delivers social, economic, and transformational justice to children and communities. We work primarily with youth who are involved in the criminal justice system and their families. Our program involves immediate triaging and connecting to services as well as longer term educational planning, skills development, mentoring, and leadership development. This includes anti-oppression training, know your rights curricula, restorative parenting discussions, participatory action research, and history lessons.