Habitat for Humanity celebrates Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday

October 1, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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NATIONWIDE — OCT. 1 MARKS THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF FORMER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER, who has spent most of the past four decades as a humanitarian helping lower-income Americans become homeowners. Carter and his late wife, Rosalynn Carter, focused much of their work with Habitat for Humanity and The Carter Center, which they co-founded in 1982 to “wage peace, fight disease, and build hope.”

Habitat NYC and Westchester County, which is an independent affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, has served more than 2,600 families in the five boroughs through home construction and preservation since 1984, beginning with its very first build on the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the first-ever Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project, according to the organization’s website. Current projects include renovations of buildings on MacDonough St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Dean St. in Brownsville.

Carter is the first U.S. President ever to become a centenarian. The prospect of voting in the first woman President also motivates him to keep living, grandson Jason Carter told reporters; Jason Carter continued, “When we started asking him about his 100th birthday, he said he was excited to vote for Kamala Harris.”

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