The 2019 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project marked the 36th year that the former president and first lady have built alongside volunteers and future Habitat homeowners. Volunteers from across the country gathered to help families build roofs, walls and community.
Learn how poverty is defined in the U.S. and around the world, and how the reach and impact of poverty affects people.
Take a look back at all that has been accomplished and how Habitat is still building along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
A partnership between Habitat Zambia and the government has helped families like Jonathan’s create a community of hope and homeownership.
Promote safer, greener construction practices and build 30 homes for displaced families in Nepal
Working alongside homeowners and volunteers, Habitat Philadelphia started a home repair program to complete critical repairs that help preserve affordable homeownership while improving health and safety.
Now a Rhodes Scholar, Jacob shares how his proudest moment was the night that his family slept in their new Habitat home.
Even as a single mom of six with two part-time jobs, Joyce was able to change her family’s future with the help of Habitat for Humanity.
Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, discusses the importance of affordable housing for reducing poverty in America.
Habitat’s Collegiate Challenge program provides year-round alternative school break volunteer opportunities to college students across the United States.
