Despite 14 Stitches And A Black Eye, Jimmy Carter Helps Build Habitat For Humanity Homes In Tennessee
Despite 14 Stitches And A Black Eye, Jimmy Carter Helps Build Habitat For Humanity Homes In Tennessee
Despite taking a fall on Sunday at his home in Georgia and getting more than a dozen stitches, former President Jimmy Carter made it to the opening ceremony of a Habitat for Humanity event in Nashville, Tennessee, later that day.
WATCH: Former President Carter, the oldest living former president in US history, helps lead a build of Habitat for Humanity homes in Nashville one day after falling at his home and receiving stitches above his eye.https://nbcnews.to/30OBC7W
“I fell down and hit my forehead on a sharp edge and had to go to the hospital. And they took 14 stitches in my forehead and my eye is black, as you’ve noticed,” he said. “But I had a No. 1 priority and that was to come to Nashville and build houses.”
Funds raised by the Carter Work Project will allow an additional 12 new single-family homes and 26 new townhomes to be built by the nonprofit by 2021.
Carter and his wife have been volunteering with Habitat for Humanity for 35 years, building homes all over the United States and around the world.
