Jimmy Carter Informative Speech

Hello everyone, for those of you who do not know me, my name is Jimmy Carter and I served as the 39th President of the United States. I served from 1977-1981. I am very honored to be receiving this award and it means a lot to me. Winning this award shows that my human rights actions are effective. When people hear the word “poverty” some of them cringe and feel uncomfortable. I know that personally, I feel uncomfortable. That is why I began my battle against it. I simply could not stand to see Americans falling to poverty and having to live in slums. My wife and I took action against this issue when we created the Carter Center and teamed up with Habitat in Americus, Georgia (which helps people struggling in poverty). However, fighting for human rights and becoming your president was not my first option. I received a B.S. degree (which is bachelor of science) from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. When my father died in 1953 I resigned my naval commission to come home to my family. I took over all the family farms (yes the peanut farms) and later …show more content…
This led up to our long-term involvement with them. Since then every year, my wife and I travel to a new location for one week to help construct homes and make sure people are aware of how hard it is to purchase a home because they are unaffordable. This is known as The Jimmy Carter Work Project (JCWP) for Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI). Making the houses in a new place each year is what helps so many people around the world plus, it gives more people the option to volunteer. About 15 years ago the project built 157 houses in New York City, and also in Jacksonville, Florida. Other JCWP projects have taken place in different countries, such as the Philippines which built 293 houses, and in Houston, Texas the project built 100 houses. The 2017 Project will be held at sites across Canada July 9-14, 2017 (Habitat for