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Jimmy Carter Work Project (JCWP)
The Jimmy Carter Work Project 2006 has just been successfully completed! Here is a short video clip on this exciting event. To find out more, click HERE to access the full report from Habitat International. A BIG Thank you especially to all Singaporean volunteers!
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| When: | 29 Oct - 3 Nov 06 |
| Where: | Outskirts of Mumbai |
| Who: | Volunteers around the world |
| Aim: | Build 101 Houses |
Helping Habitat to Build a Better World:
A Column by Jimmy Carter
One lesson you learn quickly in Habitat circles is that offers of help are taken seriously—very seriously. It wasn't long before I found myself on a bus filled with folks from South Georgia bound for the Lower East Side of Manhattan to help complete the project. We slept in a church, and worked each day to help transform that old tenement into decent housing. It was dirty, sometimes dangerous work, but few accomplishments in life have given me greater satisfaction. Rosalynn and I shared a deep sense of gratitude that we could be part of the project.
In the 20 years since, we have devoted a week each year to building in some community that desperately needs decent housing. We have been to inner cities, rural towns and a Native American reservation in the United States; we have built in Mexico, Canada, Korea, the Philippines, Hungary and South Africa. Wherever the Jimmy Carter Work Project is held, the press continues to show up and to be amazed that a former president of the United States does this grimy, sweaty work -- and enjoys it.
From my rural boyhood, when I often spent the night with black neighbors who lived in unheated and dilapidated shacks, to my years in the White House when I saw the plight of the homeless and those trapped in poverty housing worldwide, I have known that shelter matters. And I know, as a Christian, that I have a responsibility to serve where I can, that as I treat “the least of these,” I treat my Creator.
Jesus was a carpenter, and a builder. Through Habitat, we have been privileged to become builders, too, not only of houses, but of families, lives and hope. Rosalynn and I have found great joy in serving those who have too few advocates, too few friends, in this world.
A Column by Jimmy Carter
One lesson you learn quickly in Habitat circles is that offers of help are taken seriously—very seriously. It wasn't long before I found myself on a bus filled with folks from South Georgia bound for the Lower East Side of Manhattan to help complete the project. We slept in a church, and worked each day to help transform that old tenement into decent housing. It was dirty, sometimes dangerous work, but few accomplishments in life have given me greater satisfaction. Rosalynn and I shared a deep sense of gratitude that we could be part of the project.
In the 20 years since, we have devoted a week each year to building in some community that desperately needs decent housing. We have been to inner cities, rural towns and a Native American reservation in the United States; we have built in Mexico, Canada, Korea, the Philippines, Hungary and South Africa. Wherever the Jimmy Carter Work Project is held, the press continues to show up and to be amazed that a former president of the United States does this grimy, sweaty work -- and enjoys it.
From my rural boyhood, when I often spent the night with black neighbors who lived in unheated and dilapidated shacks, to my years in the White House when I saw the plight of the homeless and those trapped in poverty housing worldwide, I have known that shelter matters. And I know, as a Christian, that I have a responsibility to serve where I can, that as I treat “the least of these,” I treat my Creator.
Jesus was a carpenter, and a builder. Through Habitat, we have been privileged to become builders, too, not only of houses, but of families, lives and hope. Rosalynn and I have found great joy in serving those who have too few advocates, too few friends, in this world.