The Krewe was the vision of a couple who believed that the Carnival spirit of the old New Orleans should live and breathe through our youth, as well as through our adults. The first year, Little Rascals rolled with 90 members on three floats, including twenty kids from the New Orleans Adolescent Hospital, a facility for emotionally and physically abused youth. Today, the krewe averages more than two hundred members with between 14 and 20 floats, including a specially designed float for handicapped riders. The organization promotes leadership, self-esteem and fellowship among pint-sized participants from age two to nineteen. The krewe has been featured internationally on Japanese television as well as in National Geographic.