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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.