What is Former US President Jimmy Carters Role with Habitat for Humanity?
Every year since 1984, former US president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter has donated one week of his time – and his building skills – to Habitat. Each year, he and his wife Rosalynn lead a major volunteer building event which attracts thousands of volunteers. The next Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project is scheduled to take place in sites in Thailand, southwestern China, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. This “Mekong Build” is slated to take place between the 15th and 17th of November 2009. This will mark the fourth time the former US president and his wife have built with Habitat for Humanity in Asia. Previous Carter Work Projects were held in India in 2006, in South Korea in 2001 and in The Philippines in 1999. In May 2008, the Carters led volunteers building in the US Gulf Coast, rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina.
