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Jonathan T.M. Reckford is chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity International, a global nonprofit housing organization that helps families build and improve places to call home.

Yiftu dreaded the rainy season, which caused her home to flood, until she partnered with Habitat Ethiopia to improve her family’s living conditions. 

Inadequate housing risks people’s health, safety and prospects for earning a living. Learn how residents of informal settlements in Bangladesh, Brazil and Kenya are working to overcome obstacles so they can improve their homes.

Eleven local Habitats will receive a grant to implement revitalization projects, including neighborhood beautification and repairs to community common areas.

In 2015, 29th Street Road in Evans, Colorado, was a plot of undeveloped land. In 2019, it is a growing neighborhood of Habitat homes, 14 so far, transformed in part by high school students who are changing lives — including their own.

As United Nations member states hold their annual meeting to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals, Habitat for Humanity is calling on world leaders to assure COVID-19 does not derail progress toward the goal of assuring adequate housing for all by 2030.

Take a look back on Habitat’s flagship event that has helped create strength and stability for families and communities in Memphis, Tennessee.

“My time in AmeriCorps has really reinforced that helping people is what I want to be doing.”