Lisa Carter and her children will soon receive this house, the sixth house built by Women Build in Miami. Women Build is Habitat for Humanity's volunteer program bringing together women from all walks of life to address the housing crisis facing millions of women and children worldwide. Since 2011 they have construct more than 1,900 houses in the United States.
Stephanie Sylvestre cuts 2x4s, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, on the first day of Women Build's work on a new home. Volunteers with Habitat for Humanity's Women Build are building a house for a single mother, the sixth of 10 houses the organization wants to build by 2014. MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Lisa Carter, right, watches her friend and co-worker at Miami Northwestern cafeteria, Uradee Butts, drill ceiling strips on Carter's future home, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. This is the sixth home built by Habitat for Humanity's Women Build. MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
From left, volunteers Lourdes Bouzas, Maria Donayre, Stephanie Sylvestre and Ivette Aranda work on blocking the trusses of the new house for Habitat for Humanity's Women Build, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Arlette Azua marks each 2x4 for cutting door frames at a house built by Habitat for Humanity's Women Build, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. Volunteers are building the house for a single mother of three. MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Lisa Carter watches volunteers place insulation in what will be her new utility room, Saturday, Oct, 6, 2012. MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Nails for house #6 wait to be used by volunteers with Habitat for Humanity's Women Build. Volunteers are building the house for Lisa Carter, a single mother of three. MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Lourdes Matos holds a hammer as she and other volunteers from Noven Pharmaceuticals gather to go over safety precautions on the first day of building Lisa Carter's new home, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Imani Simmons, 19, a student at FIU, carries insulation up a ladder to squeeze it into the ceiling of Lisa Carter's home. Volunteers with Habitat for Humanity's Women Build are building the house for Carter, a single mother of three. MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Catherine Busot, 25, trims insulation for Laura Jimenez, left, 27, Both are members of OWIT, Organization of Women in International Trade, who volunteered Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, to help build Lisa Carter's house, for Women Build. MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Bianca Morrison, 21, a student at FIU, volunteered with a dozen fellow students to work on Lisa Carter's home, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, for Women Build. Morrison said she had never done this before but said, "Yes I would do it again!" MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Shirley Wongsam, right, a volunteer from Noven Pharmaceuticals, measures the space between trusses, for blocking, at a new house built by Habitat for Humanity's Women Build, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. Volunteers with Habitat for Humanity's Women Build are building a house for a single mother, the sixth of 10 houses the organization wants to build by 2014. MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Celeste Cacioppo, left, and Hilda Garrido, right, both volunteers from Noven Pharmaceuticals, cut 2x4s to size for the frames of the doors in the new house built by Habitat for Humanity's Women Build, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Lisa Carter, left, holds 2x4s still for Tashiba Mathis, right, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, the first day of the volunteers' work on what will be Carter's new home. Volunteers with Habitat for Humanity's Women Build are building the house for Carter, a single mother of three. MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Lisa Carter and her three children, center, are surrounded by volunteers who worked on her house Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. Carter will soon receive Women Build's sixth house in Miami. MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Lisa Carter, and her children, will soon receive Women Build's 6th house, here in Miami. Women Build is Habitat for Humanity's volunteer program bringing together women from all walks of life to address the housing crisis facing millions of women and children worldwide. Since 2011 they have construct more than 1,900 houses in the United States. MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
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