Taking Action Against Poverty Housing

‘Human rights involve the most basic of human needs—food, clothing and decent shelter,” says former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Putting beliefs into action, he and his wife, Rosalynn, set their hammers to the task of building houses with Habitat for Humanity during a weeklong blitz-build project that bears his name in September.

Their quest to build took them from New York City to Jacksonville, Fla., to their hometown in Plains, Ga. The week was more than simply the 17th Jimmy Carter Work Project. It also represented several Habitat milestones, including the completion of the 100,000th and 100,001st houses, and the Victory House in Sumter County, in addition to hundreds of affiliates building thousands of houses during Building on Faith week.








Reprinted from Habitat World Magazine, December 2000/January 2001.
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