1. Building Homes & Hope in Haiti
Felton Armand Id #: 93539292
Trip #: CWP13217
Two years in a row
2. Jan. 12, 2010
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)
3. Our mission:
Serve 50,000 families over five years
Help build back better,
stronger and safer.
Empower families to
improve their lives.
Support or create
sustainable communities.
4. Habitat’s milestones
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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. The Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project
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.
9. Habitat’s Santo community
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.
10. Habitat’s Santo community
Léogâne is 18 miles from Port-au-
Prince and considered to be the
epicenter of the 2010
earthquake.
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.
11. Santo today
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.
12. Two years in a row
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.
13. “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
14. World Habitat Day 2012
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.
15. Join me in building homes and
hope in Haiti
Please donate today
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.
Your donation will help fund construction of the 100 homes as
well as Habitat’s ongoing work in Haiti.