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One thing that people can say is that everyone desires to have a place to sleep, eat and live. Many people like the idea of having a place they can call home. One organization, Habitat for Humanities, has made ownership a possibility for anyone who desires to have it. For years people have been searching for a less expensive way to begin their journey out of their predicament of not having their own place to lay their head. Nothing can ever come without hard work though; to become a candidate for owning a home, people have to go through numerous classes and engage “sweat equity”. This organization has changed the lives of over a million families in over 1,400 bases internationally. Where this great organization came from is the real question. The answer, an idea; before the idea came a feeling or motion that one person felt they should act on. Millard Fuller, the man who felt there were too many homeless people in the world and decided to do something about it. Millard Fuller was born in …show more content…

Fuller made a lasting impression on President Clinton and it was noted that he said, "Habitat has revolutionized the lives of thousands... Millard Fuller has done as much to make the dream of home ownership a reality in our country and throughout the world as any living person." (“Linda and Millard Fuller,” 2009). Habitat for Humanity had enlarged to residing in Hungry, Romania, Mexico and India (“Linda and Millard Fuller,” 2009). Millard Fuller was accused of inappropriate behavior directed towards a female employee in the late 1990’s. Causatively, Fuller was forced to step down from leadership in 2005 even though there was an insufficient amount of evidence. Instantly after leaving Habitat for Humanity Fuller and his wife founded a new organization by the name of Fuller Center for Housing. They built on top of the partnerships they had already created (“Linda and Millard Fuller,”

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