ATLANTA, June 22,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This month, Habitat for Humanity
International and Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR)
are collaborating to highlight the way in which access to a
healthy, safe and affordable home may foster and improve occupants'
health during National Healthy Homes Month, which takes place
annually in June.
Through National Healthy Homes Month, the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development seeks to increase awareness
of the critical need for healthier and safer housing, with the
overall goal of improving the health of individuals and families,
with particular focus on vulnerable populations.
Home is seen as a place of comfort, safety and security, but
more than 17 million people in the U.S. do not have access to the
stability that home provides. In fact, one in seven households
continue to spend more than half of their income on housing costs,
leaving little left to pay for nutritious food, lifesaving medicine
and other necessities.
Throughout the month, Carrier employee volunteers are
participating in several Habitat for Humanity builds and projects
across the nation, including in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, North
Carolina and New York.
Additionally, Carrier has donated innovative, energy-efficient
cooling systems and other products such as air purifiers and Kidde
smoke alarms to Habitat for Humanity.
"Creating a healthy, safe and affordable indoor environment is
critical to the long-term success of Habitat homeowners," said
Justin Keppy, President,
NA Residential & Light
Commercial HVAC, Carrier. "Carrier is dedicated to enabling access
to healthier, safer, more efficient and productive indoor
environments through our innovative suite of Healthy Homes
solutions."
Carrier will also support Habitat for Humanity as a gold sponsor
of the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project, which will take
place in Charlotte, North Carolina
this year. This is the organization's third time supporting the
event.
"When a family moves into a decent home that they can also
afford, it frees them from the economic burden of making impossible
trade-offs like healthy food and medical care," said Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity
International. "We know that home is much more than four walls and
a roof, and we are grateful to have partners like Carrier that
share our belief that safe, decent and affordable homes should be
accessible to all."
About Habitat for Humanity
Driven by the vision that everyone needs a decent place to live,
Habitat for Humanity found its earliest inspirations as a
grassroots movement on an interracial community farm in south
Georgia. Since its founding in
1976, the Christian housing organization has since grown to become
a leading global nonprofit working in local communities across all
50 states in the U.S. and in more than 70 countries. Families and
individuals in need of a hand up partner with Habitat for Humanity
to build or improve a place they can call home. Habitat homeowners
help build their own homes alongside volunteers and pay an
affordable mortgage. Through financial support, volunteering or
adding a voice to support affordable housing, everyone can help
families achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they
need to build better lives for themselves. Through shelter, we
empower. To learn more, visit habitat.org.
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