Covenant House New Orleans provides social enterprise programs for our kids. Through our landscape program and our café, we offer training and work experience for our residents to help them obtain the skills needed to become a productive and employable part of the community.

Covenant Café

Covenant Café is located at 1515 Poydras Street across from the Louisiana Superdome. The café kids work along side food service professionals learning all it takes to make it in the food service industry.

Enjoy a delicious American-style or Continental breakfast along with our selection of gourmet coffees and teas to keep you going all morning long.

For lunch, try our daily hot lunch special, which includes local favorites such as red beans and rice or jambalaya. Or, choose from an array of fresh salads, gourmet and deli sandwiches or vegetarian dishes. In addition, the café offers some great desserts and snacks.

Proceeds from Covenant Café help support the 12-week café training program as well as Covenant House New Orleans.

The café is open Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. for dining in or take-out. 504-522-3335.

Click here to view a BREAKFAST MENU for the Covenant Café. Click here to view a LUNCH MENU for the Covenant Café.

 

White Dove Landscaping Services

White Dove Landscape is a full-service landscaping program that offers landscape design, installation and maintenance for commercial and residential properties. In addition to planting designs, White Dove provides ideas for the rest of your space including wood and masonry elements.

Headed by a licensed landscape contractor, White Dove Landscaping serves as a training program for resident youth ages 16-21 interested in the field of horticulture and landscape design.

Fees from our professional landscape services go toward the support of Covenant House New Orleans and the White Dove Landscaping Program.

For a consultation or to learn more, call us at 504-982-1915 or 504-584-1108.

To view some of White Dove’s work, click here.

 

Covenant Farms

An exciting new opportunity for youth is participating in our Covenant Farms program in the Treme/Lafitte area of New Orleans. We are transforming vacant lots in Treme into micro-farms, growing fresh food for use in our café and for a green market where the community can purchase quality, local produce and other products. Herb gardens, heirloom vegetables, flowers and even eggs and honey are planned. Youth participating in this program will learn new skills in garden preparation, planting, growing, harvesting and selling. They will also take classes focusing on the urban garden movement, food security and growing and cooking fresh, wholesome food.

The first garden is located at 2231 Orleans Avenue and at present, 11 more gardens are planned. Our partner, Food and Farm Network will help plan and develop these micro-farms and our very own White Dove Landscaping will provide installation labor. Covenant Café will also use Covenant Farms produce.