The Prince of Wales’s Rebuilding Communities  Program is a nine-month program of applied study which offers building craftsmen the opportunity to enhance and advance their design knowledge and experience in traditional and sustainable building crafts. Through a diverse partnership this will be a concerted effort to offer sustainable building crafts training to local people, with live- build projects in the Lower 9th Ward, New Marigny, Tremé, and Esplanade Ridge for the restoration of homes, businesses and communities. The Building Crafts Apprentices program  recruited 16 experienced building craftspeople in its second year. Individuals were  chosen based on skill, experience, references and dedication to their craft. The program aims to build capacity; from student to future master crafts person, establishing essential skills required not only in New Orleans, but worldwide in a market facing a critical shortage across America and Europe of professionals trained in traditional building crafts. This project will include work on three projects intended to be major community hubs in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. As part of the program, The Prince of Wales’s Rebuilding Communities Program, in partnership with the Preservation Resource Center, will be working on several different sites managed by the Operation Comeback department of the Preservation Resource Center.