BALDWIN: Now in his 90s. You would think former president Jimmy Carter would be into retirement after beating cancer. But not when he has a chance to make an impact.</s>CHRISTOPHER DAWSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Former president Jimmy Carter and his wife Roselyn are still building homes for Habitat for Humanity. An annual tradition they started more than 30 years ago.</s>JIMMY CARTER, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We've built almost 5,000 houses right now. It's been one of the most gratifying and challenging and difficult things we've ever done. Physically speaking because we've gotten steadily older, I was a lot younger when I first started.</s>DAWSON: He was 56 and fresh out of the White House when he first took up a hammer as a volunteer home builder.</s>CARTER: We hope it will go like this all over the world. We're now building one home each day for poor people in need. I happen to be in a Christian. My religious beliefs into practical use. And this is the best way I know to cross that very difficult chasm between rich people and people who never had a decent place in which to live.</s>DAWSON: Habitat for Humanity fields 1400 groups in more than 70 countries. They raise awareness of the need for more affordable housing and bring volunteers together to build and renovate homes.</s>CARTER: There is a Habitat organization needing volunteers to raise money, serve food or build a house in almost everywhere people live in the United States. Just the idea of volunteerism where you actually do some work side by side with people in need has been put on the forefront of people's consciousness through Habitat. And that's a good thing.</s>BALDWIN: That is a good thing, President Carter, thank you.
Jimmy Carter Still Building Houses for the Poor.