“This is my house”
Homeowner Lyndsay found security and self-reliance in her new Habitat home.
Homeowner Lyndsay found security and self-reliance in her new Habitat home.
One Global Village volunteer shares her experience traveling abroad to build with Habitat for Humanity.
As a volunteer with Habitat Huron Valley, Jim Jackson has seen the pure joy of more than 150 new homeowners since 2001.
“I was really diligent about finding a job working in community development.”
In 1996, Maria applied to Black Hills Area Habitat for Humanity’s homeownership program in the hopes of providing a safe and stable home for her five children. Now 25 years later, she and her friends celebrated her final mortgage payment, and in Habitat tradition, they burned the mortgage papers she signed all those years ago.
A Habitat for Humanity house is a hand up, a step up for families who — many of them for the very first time — are achieving a decent, affordable place to live.
For Taylor Thompson, building with Habitat is the most meaningful way to honor his mom Maureen, an architect who designed a Habitat house.
Nissan’s donation includes Nissan Titan trucks and Nissan NV vans assembled in Canton, Miss., and funds home builds in 13 communities where Nissan employees live and work.
Carter Work Project volunteers lend a hand to the Charlotte community’s work building a thriving neighborhood at the historic site where an all-Black, segregation-era school called Plato Price stood. The once-empty lot is being transformed into an affordable, vibrant neighborhood with single-family homes, walking paths, nature areas and a community meeting space.