Neutral Ground Mutual Aid

Neighbors helping neighbors get through the everyday.

Neutral Ground Mutual Aid is Below Sea Level Aid’s community assistance and basic-needs program. It connects neighbors with tangible resources that can make life a little more manageable—from groceries and hygiene supplies to transportation and laundry assistance.

Rather than deciding what people should need, we work to build systems that respond to what community members tell us they actually need. Whenever possible, our services are designed to be low-barrier, practical, and accessible without invasive documentation or unnecessary hoops.

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Tangible assistance for the Greater New Orleans Area in the form of gas cards, laundry vouchers, bus passes, and grocery assistance.

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Mutual Aid Hotline

Our Mutual Aid Hotline connects community members across Louisiana with direct support, resources, and referrals for urgent everyday needs. The hotline helps individuals access food assistance, harm reduction supplies, transportation support, clothing, hygiene items, emergency resources, and connections to local services.

Community members can call or text us at (504)408-1888 to have harm reduction and basic needed items delivered to them within the Greater New Orleans Area.

NOSWF

The New Orleans Sex Worker Fund is a community-led support initiative dedicated to providing direct aid, safety resources, and emergency assistance to sex workers in the Greater New Orleans area. The fund helps address immediate needs such as housing support, transportation, food assistance, hygiene products, emergency funds, and access to healthcare and harm reduction supplies. The program recognizes the unique barriers sex workers face, including stigma, criminalization, violence, and healthcare discrimination.