AmeriCorps member finds joy in giving back
Ryan helped his family build their own Habitat home. Now, as an AmeriCorps member, he’s helping others realize their dream of homeownership.
Ryan helped his family build their own Habitat home. Now, as an AmeriCorps member, he’s helping others realize their dream of homeownership.
Kevin Walters has long been a champion of decent and affordable housing. In 2012, he helped revive Habitat Tucson’s Rainbow Build, a build funded by LGBTQ+ organizations and individuals during which hundreds of LGBTQ+ community members and allies come together to volunteer.
When we ask Habitat homeowners what their homes make possible for them, their answers — just as they share them with us — fit together like poetry. The powerful poetry of lives changed and futures transformed.
Learn about the characteristics shared by most Habitat houses in the U.S. and Canada.
Seventy-four-year-old Tran Kim Xuyen looks forward to better health in a new home built by Habitat for Humanity volunteers in southern Vietnam.
He lost it all in the tsunami, but G. Sundaramurthy has a Habitat house — and new hope.
Emma Funfar and Dot Hannon — one a Habitat Cape Cod homeowner, the other a volunteer — have become close friends. Their bond, as happens so often, has lasted long after the build.
Around the world, Habitat for Humanity creates ways for younger volunteers to have fun while learning valuable life lessons.