Jimmy Carter Partners with Habitat for Humanity

Jimmy Carter

Pol Light Moment #10 is Jimmy Carter partnering with the work of Habitat for Humanity. Jimmy Carter was the 39th President of the United States, serving from 1977-1981. Prior to that he served as the Governor of Georgia from 1971-1975. Since 1984, Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalyn have devoted a week each year to a Habitat for Humanity Project (Source).

In 2008, Jimmy Carter said this about his work in Habitat for Humanity.

Habitat gives us an opportunity which is very difficult to find: to reach out and work side by side with those who never had a decent home--but work with them on a completely equal basis. It's not a big-shot, little-shot relationship. It's a sense of equality (Source). 

The following is a video of Jimmy Carter announcing the Carter Work Project in China in 2009.



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