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Mark Your Calendar

June 2005

19-24 | Volunteers from around the world will gather in Benton Harbor and Detroit, Mich., as well as various locations statewide, to build hundreds of houses during the Jimmy Carter Work Project. Visit www.habitat.org for updates throughout the week..

19-July1 | Summer Youth Blitz in Cookeville, Tenn., and Bunnell, Fla.

Ongoing | Global Village trips to Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, El Salvador, Ghana, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Romania, Uganda, United States (Alaska, Michigan)

July 2005

17-30 | Summer Youth Blitz in Georgetown, S.C., and Sisters, Ore.

Ongoing | Global Village trips to Bulgaria, Hungary, Lesotho, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, United States (Alaska, Montana)

August 2005

15 | Dedication of Habitat's 200,000th and 200,001st houses built worldwide

12-27 | Summer Youth Blitz in Kyrgyzstan

Ongoing | Global Village trips to Armenia, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Mongolia, Poland, Zambia

September 2005

11-18 | Building on Faith, Habitat for Humanity's annual celebration of church partnerships, will focus this year on the theme "Making All Things New." Highlights of expected activities include New Orleans Area HFH, which will announce an upcoming 40-house build with local Baptist churches in 2006, and El Salvador, which will build 30 houses to launch a five-year campaign of building 500 houses with church partners. The week's building and awareness-raising activities will culminate on Sept. 18 with the International Day of Prayer and Action for Human Habitat. For information on activities near you, contact churchrelations@habitat.org.

Ongoing | Global Village trips to Canada, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Romania

October 2005

5-6 | National Rural Conference in Jacksonville, Fla.

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