Sandra Bullock to celebrate Katrina success story
Sandra Bullock The 46-year-old Oscar winning actress, who now owns a home in the Big Easy, will join Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Sunday for the ribbon cutting of a new £500,000 health clinic she helped fund at Warren Easton Charter High School.
Bullock is also set to sit for an on-camera interview with The Today Show's Matt Lauer in the following days.
According to her rep, the soon-to-be-divorced brunette will not focus on her highly publicised split from bad boy biker Jesse James, but on the new school and the southern city that has become a vital part of her life.
"This is a cause that is extremely important to her," her rep told People.
Bullock, whose seven-month-old son Louis was born in New Orleans, has reportedly long held the city close to her heart.
Among her chief causes has been the historical public school, which suffered £3million in damages during Katrina.
Since then, Bullock has donated an undisclosed amount of money to help Warren Easton rebuild - funding everything from new uniforms for the marching band to the reconstruction of the auditorium.
"She acts as if all 800-plus of these children are her own," school principal Alexina Medley told the magazine back in March, while school board member Arthur Hardy called her "our angel".