On May 12-16, 2016 volunteers from the Habitat for Humanity affiliate in the San Francisco East Bay and Silicon Valley region traveled to El Salvador to help build two homes through the Global Village program. As the affiliate’s fifth trip to the region, this was a fantastic opportunity to reconnect with friends in Usulutan, El Salvador, to work very hard to help two more deserving families, and to help address the critical housing crisis in El Salvador. The homes were in early construction phases and volunteers spent their days digging...

Through the Habitat Hand-Up Home Repair program, Habitat for Humanity Orange County was able to help U.S. Army veteran Jim Torres and his wife with necessary repairs to their home.   “You will see vets who are embarrassed about where they are living,” says Jim, who works with disabled veterans. “Habitat comes in and takes them from their chin on their chest to their head held high. The first time I saw that I said, ‘I’ve got to keep sending people there.’” Today, Jim, a disabled veteran himself, is the one...