Habitat For Humanity Paper

Habitat for Humanity is an organization that helps people who can't afford a home on their own. Volunteers of all kinds all have the same values, and those are to help others and create better communities around the world. The goal is to help families have a place they can call home. Habitat for Humanity is a nationwide organization that was started by Millard Fuller in 1976. Habitat was started by Millard to help people because he was struggling in his life with what was important to him. His Christian faith led him to start building homes for people who couldn’t afford one; his multi-millions he had made early on in his life helped him start habitat for humanity. “I see life as both a gift and responsibility. My responsibility is to use what God has given me to help his people in need.” (Millard Fuller). That quote tells me that habitat for humanity is all about helping people and was started to make the world a better place by helping those in need. I am getting involved with habitat for humanity because I have the same values as them and want to help people in need. I want to help build houses for families because I have always grown up in a house with my family and everyone deserves to have a place they call home and live with their family. …show more content…
They responded that their values were family, helping others, charity, and the main one was to make a difference. These values show you that Habitat is a group of people who want to change the world by helping others and starting community’s one house at a time. Habitat builds homes to suit the recipients to the best they can, for example if there are four people to a house they might make it a little smaller than if there were eight people in a house. They build every house a little different but all with the same amount of passion and