Lacking the national outpouring of support that accompanied Hurricane Katrina seven years ago, recovery work in New Orleans following last month’s Hurricane Isaac will fall far more heavily on local volunteers and donors, according to The Times-Picayune.

Aid charities and church groups have set up extensive operations to clear disaster sites and distribute food and other supplies to storm victims. But they say long-term rebuilding will be affected by the relative dearth of outside attention compared to 2005, when hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of volunteers streamed into the region.

“This is going to be on the local community — with a few national folks who follow us closely and who will rally to us,” said Gordon Wadge, president of Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, which raised more than $100-million for post-Katrina relief and recovery work.