Habitat AmeriCorps profile: Diana Youssef
“I was really diligent about finding a job working in community development.”
“I was really diligent about finding a job working in community development.”
A common theme throughout Faustina Ward Osborn’s life has been her work to improve her community, in the U.S. and in her home country of Guyana.
In the midst of grief, one family began a journey to healing by serving with Habitat. Donating their family car to the Cars for Homes program is their latest step.
Alternative spring breaks allow students to travel, meet new people, and feel the satisfaction that comes from working to improve communities — and lives.
Discover some meaningful ways to travel and build with Habitat for Humanity.
The Frantzeskakis family supports Habitat with monthly donations and time together on build sites.
All Habitat kitchens in the U.S. and Canada for the past 20 years have been outfitted with a Whirlpool refrigerator and range thanks to the Whirlpool Corporation. It was in her mother’s kitchen, on those appliances, where Chef Ro taught herself basics of cooking and changed the trajectory of her life.
Now that they’ve built their “forever home” with Habitat, Cynthia and Valdemar are focused on building a safe, loving community where their sons can have a bright future.
Benjamin and Teresa thought affordable homeownership was out of reach until they found Habitat. Now the homeowners are active community leaders, and their family is flourishing.
Shawnee, Tami and Bobby represent three of the 13 families in the Towns at Ivy City development — and 41 in the larger Ivy City neighborhood — that have benefited from an ongoing partnership between D.C.’s Department of Housing and Community Development and Habitat for Humanity of Washington, D.C.