Carter Makes Quick Start on Homes for New Orleans Habitat for Humanity is taking on what former president -- and occasional carpenter -- Jimmy Carter calls its most important mission ever: Building homes for the who've lost theirs in Hurricane Katrina. It's already collected nearly half a million dollars in donations toward what it calls Operation Home Delivery. Habitat hopes volunteers can begin assembling frames for its homes by the end of the month.

Carter Makes Quick Start on Homes for New Orleans

Carter Makes Quick Start on Homes for New Orleans

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Habitat for Humanity is taking on what former president — and occasional carpenter — Jimmy Carter calls its most important mission ever: Building homes for the who've lost theirs in Hurricane Katrina. It's already collected nearly half a million dollars in donations toward what it calls Operation Home Delivery. Habitat hopes volunteers can begin assembling frames for its homes by the end of the month.