Nobel Peace Prize Winner Joins Dr. BonnieJean Butler and thousands of Volunteers for Habitat for Humanity's Jimmy Carter Work Project

Volunteers To Build 92 Houses In Alabama, Georgia In One Week

Volunteers built homes in partnership with 92 new homeowners and their families during the week of June 6 - 13. In addition, Habitat affiliates around the country will be building that week in support of the JCWP 2003.

This marks the 20th year in which the Carters have built in partnership with families in need of simple, decent housing. Since 1984, the Carters have personally worked on homes that house more than 2,000 families around the world in communities such as Los Angeles, New York City, Houston, Miami, Hungary, the Philippines, South Korea and South Africa. Since 1976, Habitat for Humanity has built more than 125,000 houses worldwide with families in need.

"We are excited about the growing global effort to alleviate the curse of homelessness," said Carter. "Habitat for Humanity has successfully removed the stigma of charity by substituting it with a sense of partnership. The people who will live in the homes work side-by-side with the volunteers. The experience broadens everyone's perspectives."

"We are taking Habitat's mission to a new and higher level with this year's Jimmy Carter Work Project. We want to dramatize the huge need for adequate housing and the viable solution of the 21st Century Challenge," said Millard Fuller, HFHI's founder and president.

"We have selected these three communities for this year's Jimmy Carter Work Project because they are among the first U.S. cities to formally commit to ridding their neighborhoods of substandard housing.

About Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity International, based in Americus, Ga., is an ecumenical Christian ministry dedicated to eliminating poverty housing. By the end of 2005, Habitat will have built its 200,000th house and more than one million people will be living in Habitat homes they helped build. www.habitat.org.