Supporters of Jimmy Carter’s post-Presidential efforts mourn his passing

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00:00Volunteers and supporters connected to former President Jimmy Carter's philanthropic efforts in his long post-presidency

00:07mourn his passing.

00:09BOA's Cain Faribault has more.

00:11Suzanne Taylor from Buffalo, New York, admits she isn't handy.

00:17Really, I have no building skills. I'm terrified of flying.

00:21But when she went online to donate money to help Habitat for Humanity's recovery efforts

00:27after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan, something caught her attention.

00:32And the banner ad said, now accepting applications for what was then Jimmy Carter Work Project in India,

00:39and it struck me like a bolt of lightning that that was what I was supposed to do next.

00:43Taylor volunteered with Habitat for Humanity to build houses alongside Jimmy Carter in India in 2006.

00:50She participated in a dozen more building projects hosted by the former president and his wife, Rosalyn, around the globe.

00:56So when you ask me if it's because of the Carters, that is the only reason I got involved.

01:02The Carters spent a week each year building houses for Habitat for Humanity.

01:06The other 51 weeks were spent in the service of their nonprofit Carter Center,

01:11which fights disease, builds hope, and wages peace throughout the world,

01:15something Chris Jones of Portland, Oregon, didn't know when he was looking for an organization to donate money to.

01:21Jones and his wife, Barb, were impressed by the center's financial management.

01:26Turns out, I didn't know this at the time, but Jimmy Carter's quite the penny pincher,

01:29and, you know, he kept a close eye on how funds were spent.

01:35Jones not only sent money to the Carter Center over the years,

01:38but also participated in one of its key democracy programs, election monitoring.

01:43There was the Tunisian Arab Spring elections in 2014,

01:48and I got the call saying, hey, can you be in Tunisia in the next couple weeks for this mission?

01:56And I jumped at the chance.

01:57Jones later joined the center's election monitoring mission in Liberia in 2017.

02:02He's grateful that the Carters' global humanitarian work offered him an opportunity that transcended financial support.

02:09He says his election monitoring work was transformative.

02:12Monitoring polling stations, watching the counting of ballots,

02:16really gave me an appreciation of how the democratic process works in these countries.

02:21Jones says Jimmy Carter would welcome being remembered more for what he did beyond his years in the White House.

02:27I think his proudest accomplishment was the Carter Center.

02:30I really want the world to remember how transformative he was and how much good he's accomplished.

02:37Suzanne Taylor plans to continue volunteering with Habitat for Humanity and the Carter Center.

02:42She says among the greatest tributes to the Carters are the many supporters participating today and in the future

02:48who have never met either Jimmy or Rosalynn Carter in person.

02:51There are new people who are coming on board as donors and followers and builders.

02:57The Carter Center has monitored more than 100 elections and continues to fight neglected tropical diseases globally.

03:03The parasitic guinea worm, which once infected more than 3.5 million people, is down to fewer than 20 cases.

03:10The complete eradication of the disease was one of Jimmy Carter's signature efforts with the Carter Center.

03:15Cain Fairbaugh, VOA News, Chicago.

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