Haywood Habitat for Humanity


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Haywood Habitat for Humanity

New to Habitat? Start here! Discover how Habitat for Humanity is building homes and hope around the world.

Global Adventure with Habitat. Take a Global Village volunteer vacation and help people in a different part of the world build Habitat for Humanity houses. See our schedule for available destinations across the globe. E-mail updates available!

Global Village and Discovery Center Experience Habitat's international house-building without leaving the United States! The Habitat for Humanity Global Village & Discovery Center is a re-creation of the Habitat experience around the world, located in our hometown of Americus, Ga.

Haywood Habitat by the Numbers

Age of our affiliate:   16
Number of homes built:   32
Volunteers it takes to build a house:   100
Nails in a Habitat House:   3,000
Number of people it takes to make a difference:   1

Construction site workdays are Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. In the near future Friday volunteer opportunities will be available. Call the volunteer hotline 452-7960 for a recording of where we are building that week.

Family Earns Sustainable Resource House
A new environmentally friendly house will be constructed in Canton, N.C., on April 26-28, 2006 . . . More

What Habitat Does:

Since 1976, Habitat has built more than 175,000 houses, providing shelter for nearly 900,000 people worldwide. Now at work in 100 countries, we are building a house every 26 minutes. By 2005, Habitat houses will be sheltering 1 million people.