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Building Homes & Hope in HaitiFelton Armand Id #: 93539292
Trip #: CWP13217Two years in a row
A magnitude-7.0 earthquake forever alters
the landscape.
Nearly 190,000 homes were damaged or
destroyed.
More than half a million people remain
homeless.*
* United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Jan. 12, 2010
Help build back better, stronger and safer.
Empower families to improve their lives.
Support or create sustainable communities.
Our mission: Serve 50,000 families over five years
24,500+ emergency shelter kits provided to families through
distribution partners.
More than 3,300 stockpiled for future disasters.
Kits contain tools that families can use to make immediate
repairs and construct temporary shelters.
Habitat’s milestones
12,000+ structural damage assessments conducted.
More than 5,000 transitional or upgradable shelters constructed.
Upgradable shelters can be turned into permanent homes.
More than 350 homes repaired or retrofitted.
Habitat’s milestones
More than 700 Haitians provided with job opportunities through Habitat Haiti’s main office and
Habitat Resource Centers.
More than 4,450 Haitians trained in construction, construction business practices, damage assessments and
financial literacy.
Habitat’s milestones
Habitat created and has fostered the Haiti Property Law Working
Group to support the government of Haiti in job
creation, housing and other public purposes by defining the
current processes for land transactions and recommending
improvements for future.
Habitat’s milestones
Each year since 1984, former President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, give a week of their time to help Habitat build homes.
The Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project helps to raise awareness for the critical need for simple, decent and affordable housing.
The event is held at a different location each year and attracts volunteers from around the world.
The Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project
In 2011, volunteers at the 28th annual Jimmy &
Rosalynn Carter Work Project — along with corporate
partners, project donors as well as volunteers from the
Irish nonprofit Haven — partnered with families to
build 155 permanent houses in the Santo community in
Léogâne.
Habitat’s Santo community
The project is part of a larger Habitat shelter program funded by the Multilateral Investment
Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank and many
other donors.
Léogâne is 18 miles from Port-au-Prince and considered to be the
epicenter of the 2010 earthquake.
Habitat’s Santo community
Many families have started small businesses in or outside their new homes to increase much needed family income.
Others continue to make upgrades to their new homes
and landscape their yards.
The pride of homeownership is omnipresent.
Santo today
But, so much work remains.
This year, the Carter Work Project returns to strengthen and support Habitat’s ongoing work and keep
Haiti in our hearts and minds.
President and Mrs. Carter will join approximately 600 volunteers Nov. 23 – Dec. 1, 2012, to build the next
100 Habitat homes in the Santo community.
Two years in a row
“Last year, Rosalynn and I worked side by side with families left homeless by the 2010 earthquake and Habitat volunteers to build desperately needed homes in Haiti.
We were both deeply moved by the experience in a country we have known and loved for years. We have a deep personal investment in the future of Haiti and look forward to returning to Haiti in 2012 to build 100 more homes in Léogâne.”
President Jimmy Carter
The Carter Work Project will be the culmination of a two-month observance to bring attention to
the need for safe and decent housing, and the pivotal role of
housing in community development, beginning with
special events on World Habitat Day, Monday, Oct. 1.
World Habitat Day 2012
Please donate today
Your donation will help fund construction of the 100 homes as well as Habitat’s ongoing work in Haiti.
Join me in building homes and hope in Haiti
http://share.habitat.org/cwp2012participants156 or bit.ly/N7i7yH, by phone Call 1-800-HABITAT (800-422-4828), extension 7530. To ensure that your donation helps the work of my team, please be sure to mention Id #: 93539292 Trip #: CWP13217.