12/29/2024
A message from Habitat:
Dear colleagues,
Today we learned the sad news that President Carter has passed away.
Our hearts are heavy. We have lost a treasured friend and true champion of people and communities everywhere. As we grieve, however, we are also filled with a tremendous sense of gratitude for the life of this incomparable servant leader and comforted by knowing he is now reunited with his beloved wife, Rosalynn.
President Carter will be remembered by many as much for his humanitarian work after he left the White House as for his years as the nation’s chief executive. It's impossible for me — as I’m sure it will be for you — to think of President Carter without remembering the houses he helped build and the lives he touched. The world came to know Habitat for Humanity largely because President and Mrs. Carter faithfully worked alongside volunteers in the heat and cold, in locations all around the globe, always with the knowledge that their work would help bring attention to Habitat’s important mission.
Habitat will miss President Carter deeply, and, like many of you, I am feeling the loss of my friend. And yet we know that many of the seeds he sowed — and that you continue to cultivate — have only just begun to bear fruit. His generous contributions to Habitat do not end here; his legacy now resides in all of us. I reflect today on how important each of you are to Habitat’s continued success, and I thank you once again for your service, your support and your compassion, especially in this moment of grief.
In the coming hours and days, you will find Habitat’s public tributes to President Carter on our website and social media channels. I invite each of you to visit habitat.org to share a memory, reflection or words of appreciation for President Carter in our online memory book.
Additional information and materials about how Habitat can jointly honor President Carter’s legacy will be shared via the Knowledge Center of MyHabitat today and in the coming days.
Blessings,
Jonathan T.M. Reckford
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organization that helps people in your community and around the world build or improve a place they can call home. Donate, volunteer and raise your voice in support of decent and affordable housing.
