Jimmy Carter Work Project

Durban, South Africa — June 3 – 7, 2002

Working Together, Building Homes and Hope in South Africa

The 2002 Jimmy Carter Work Project was the largest event in the Project's 18-year history. It involved the building of 1,000 new homes in 18 countries across the African continent. Volunteers began building the homes in communities throughout Africa early in the year, and the project culminated June 3-7 with a 100-house blitz hosted by the city of Durban, on South Africa's east coast. The theme of the project, "Ilima Africa," a Zulu phrase for "working together," said it all: Thousands of people from all over the world coming together to make a difference.

Another Zulu word, "Ethembeni," meaning "a place of hope," also holds great meaning for the project and the blitz host city. Ethembeni is the new name for the Durban, South Africa neighborhood that was rebuilt as part of the blitz.

A platinum sponsor for the JCWP, Dow funded the construction of 10 homes: nine at sites across Africa and one in Durban. During the five-day blitz, Dow employees and customers from the United States, Europe and South Africa worked with excited new homeowner Nonhlanhla Mvelese, pounding nails, raising walls and putting a roof on her simple, decent cement block home. In addition, the roofs of all 100 Habitat homes in Durban are insulated with more than 140,000 board feet of STYROFOAM* ROOFMATE* extruded polystyrene insulation from Dow's Dilovasi plant in Türkiye.

Expanding on its support of the 2002 JCWP, Dow also funded the renovation of a community center in Durban, as well as 10 homes to be built there through the end of 2003.

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