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CONSTRUCTION: Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project

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Dahlia Street Home Dedication (Five Families)
Saturday, September 26, 2009
House Blessings for partner families Kristina Myers, Gaynell Crocket, Whitney Snider
Lauretha Garrett, and Michelle Vedros.

Carnation Street Home Dedication - (Seven Families)
Saturday, May 30, 2009
House Blessings for partner families Alicia Miller, Jacob and Alina Middleton, Wendy & Phillip Cole, Alonda Singleton, Shaniqueka Weary, April Casnave and Stacey Escher. Congratulations to our new homeowners!

Local Effort Also Commemorates Habitat Activist’s 25 Years of Service
Affiliate Hosts Habitat’s Most Famous Volunteers -- Read the story

• Highlights
• Now Online: Volunteer Photos with the Carters!
• Photo Gallery - Volunteers, Construction and Pres. & Mrs. Carter
• Sponsor Info / Sponsors
  
• Watch the PSA Video (30 sec. WMV)

For the 25th year, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, called attention to both the need for affordable housing and Habitat for Humanity’s work to help low-income families realize the goal of homeownership. This year’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Project was held along the Gulf Coast, May 11-16 from Houston, TX to Mobile, AL

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Celebrating her 25th anniversary along with the Carters is HFHSTW’s own Marilyn Wenzel. A longtime volunteer at the Habitat Home Store in Covington, she has also served as Board President, participated on numerous committees and facilitated real estate acquisitions. In 2006, Wenzel was awarded Habitat for Humanity International’s highest honor. She was one of only two people in the world that year to be presented with the Pioneer in Excellence Award.

Wenzel’s service also includes working side-by-side with President Carter on several builds throughout the country. Because of her close ties to this specific project, HFHSTW is honoring her quarter-century of volunteerism with “Friends of Marilyn” sponsored homes that are being built as part of the Carter Project. These two homes have been totally financed by community members eager to celebrate volunteer Marilyn Wenzel’s 25th anniversary with Habitat for Humanity. (Read more about "Friends of Marilyn.")

If you would like to donate to the "Friends of Marilyn," please call the office at 985-893-3172 to learn more or donate online today.

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More than 300 volunteers from across the United States, the UK, Japan and Australia have partnered with Habitat for Humanity St. Tammany West to build ten houses in West Abita Nursery in Covington as part of the five-day home build. An additional 20 homes will also be completed this year in West St. Tammany as part of the Carter Project.

HFHSTW President & CEO Maureen Clary said the five-day build continues the aggressive posture of the affiliate over the last two years. “We have been blessed with generous volunteers and donors who have helped in our recovery efforts. We need this continued support as we work to build another 100 homes in the next two years.”

Sponsorships are needed to fund construction both during the work week and after.

• Learn about available sponsor levels
• Sponsor Listing to date
• For more information, call 985-893-3172
• Secure Online Donations can be made at any time.

Volunteers: Click here to read details and FAQs.

25 Years of Building with the Carters
Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, have been helping Habitat for Humanity shine the spotlight on the need for affordable housing since 1984. That year, the Carters led a small team of Habitat volunteers to New York City to help renovate a six-story apartment building with 19 families in need of decent, affordable shelter. A quarter of a century later, that modest effort has grown into an internationally-recognized annual event that has taken place in communities around the world.