Jimmy Carter helped build 21 homes here. See his legacy live on
It is sad news first reported over the weekend. Former President Jimmy Carter is nearing the end of his remarkable life. The 98 year old has decided to stop medical treatments and instead receive at home hospice care with family by aside. And while you can see Carter's impact all around the world, you can also spot it in a neighborhood in North Nashville where News Channel fives Jason Lam visited today. In a neighborhood in North Nashville, one of former President Jimmy Carter's legacies remains. I think you can hear his legacy behind me. You hear the children playing in the streets as the 98 year old former president entered end of life hospice care over the weekend after a series of recent hospital stays.
Sherri Stinson with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville remembers the 1500 volunteers in this neighborhood back in 2019, including President Carter and his wife, Rosalind. He's the true sense of a servant leader. There's nothing glamorous about coming out to a Habitat build site and working all day long for five days. Yet that's what Carter did here despite taking a nasty fall the morning of his first day in town. They took 14 stitches in my forehead and my eyes black as you notice. And the next thing I heard was President Carter has a number one priority, but I had a number one priority and that was to come to Nashville to build houses. In fact, it was that devotion to service that brought some Titans players out to see him that week.
They said we cannot believe he fell busted his head, has a black eye and showed up to work. What a badass. I'm doing well. I feel good enough to build houses. The Carter work project built 21 homes in Nashville with help from volunteers and the homeowners themselves served with the side of Tennessee hospitality not criticized anybody that we visited before, but this has been the best food I've ever had. A legacy of service still standing tall in Nashville. No matter your age, no matter the shape that you're in, if you're determined to do something good in this world, what should stop you? It didn't stop him.
Jason Lam News Channel 5.
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