Former President Jimmy Carter's dedication to affordable housing shines through his work with Habitat for Humanity. He and Rosalynn Carter spent decades volunteering, building, and inspiring others to create homes and communities.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were the organization's most high-profile supporters. Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at 100, is leaving an enduring legacy in one of the causes he spent decades working on and cherished most, according to those who volunteered with him. Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, had been 'champions and groundbreaking voices for affordable, decent housing for all' since 1984, according to.
The Carters donated their time and influence and worked with nearly 103,000 volunteers in 14 countries to build, renovate and repair 4,331 homes, the nonprofit stated. Thomas Trumble shakes former President Jimmy Carter's hand at a build site on a Carter Work Project in South Africa in 2002. Rhode Island-based builder and designer Kenneth Young, 66, first began volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in the 1990s. After his first 'Carter build' in 1995 in Watts, California, a neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, he 'got the bug,' he told ABC News. Since then, Young has carried out 20 builds, many alongside the 39th president of the United States -- including Carter's last build in Nashville in 2019, Young said.Young's favorite memory of Carter was during a build in Budapest, Hungary, in 1996, when the residents of a newly built home -- twin boy toddlers -- smacked him in the face with a balloon and Carter, a grandfather himself, 'took it in stride' and with a smile.Kenneth Young poses with former President Jimmy Carter at a Carter Work Project in the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles in 1985. Don Shaw and Thomas Trumble -- lifelong friends who have been volunteering together for decades with the Habitat for Humanity chapter in Hartford, Connecticut, first worked with Carter in 2002 during a build in Durban, South Africa, they told ABC New
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