“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.”
This quote from President Jimmy Carter has long helped guide the leaders and volunteers at Habitat for Humanity of Omaha.
Continue reading for the full story as seen on-air about how his influence very much lives on locally.
NORTH OMAHA // HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HEADQUARTERS
A husband and wife started Habitat for Humanity. Though, it wasn’t Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. Millard and Linda Fuller – also of Georgia – did it in the 1970s. But in 1984, the Carters became so involved with the cause of ‘partnership housing’ that many Americans assicated them as the founders.
In an interview in 2018, President Carter said, “I never dreamed, at that point, that it might become an annual affair that has enriched our lives in many ways.”
He was speaking about the Carter Work Project, which elevated Habitat for Humanity in our nation and around the world.