Hightower's Page for FGCA

The mission of First Grace Community Alliance (FGCA) is to work with and for people in need, especially women+ and their children, by meeting food, housing and other emergency needs, while simultaneously challenging systemic poverty in the greater New Orleans area. FGCA does this through its two main programs: Hagar's House and Project Ishmael.

Hagar's House offers:
o A beautiful, clean, safe place to rest and call home
o An open and inclusive space that welcomes women, children, and trans and gender-nonconforming folks
o An intentional community that is actively engaged in undoing the root causes of poverty

Project Ishmael is our free children's immigration legal program and its goals are:

1) to meet some immigration needs of children in New Orleans,

2) to meet legal needs of the women and children who live in Hagar's House (by coordinating a volunteer base of attorneys and legal resources)

3) to challenge systemic injustice that allows children and their parents to be harassed, incarcerated, deported, or torn from their families based on race or immigration status.