Habitat for Humanity affiliates across the U.S. are leading Team Up service projects to help people build connections across differences with others. Truman Heritage Habitat’s Team Up project brought an intergenerational group together to renovate two homes in Eastern Jackson County, Missouri.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the U.S. was facing extreme housing challenges. Now, with hours, wages and jobs cut as a result of the coronavirus, even more individuals are facing housing instability.
Twenty-one families, including those of Eno’s and Erica and Neil’s, are building their homes as well as their hopes alongside a former U.S. president and first lady and volunteers at the 2019 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project in Nashville, Tennessee.
Alongside volunteers from Habitat Philadelphia and The Home Depot Foundation’s associate-led volunteer force, homeowners Reginald and Pat have made their home into a place they can continue to thrive in.
Andersen Corporation employees are committed to helping advance affordable housing in their local community as volunteers at Habitat’s Carter Work Project in Minnesota’s Twin Cities.
For Aretha, the accessibility features in her Habitat home “make a big difference” for her and her two children, 23-year-old Devin and 22-year-old Zacaya.
We believe in a world where everyone — no matter who we are or where we come from — deserves a decent place to live. Habitat’s leaders have committed to creating a space where people of all races, all faiths and all backgrounds come together in common cause.
Delta Air Lines employees are volunteering across the country this fall to build five homes. Proceeds from a recycling program helped fund two homes in Atlanta in September.
As Habitat celebrates 40 years of building in your community and all over the world, here are 40 facts about us.