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People Everywhere Are Working for the Greater Good in the Second Half of Life

RV Care-a-Vanners: Giving Shelter

This story follows several RV Care-a-Vanners on their journey to reinvest in community – and not just their own – by building houses with Habitat for Humanity and helping low-income families make a fresh start. At the same time, these older adults are building the kinds of relationships they found most often on the job: relationships with a purpose.

RV Care-a-Vanner volunteers lifting beam onto roof. Photo credit and copyright by Alex Harris.
RV Care-a-Vanner volunteers building a home.
Photo credit and copyright by Alex Harris.


RV Care-a-Vanners
Habitat for Humanity
121 Habitat Street
Americus, GA 31709
(800) HABITAT (422-4828), ext. 2446
www.habitat.org/gv/rv.html

Innovations
Photographs by Alex Harris
Essay by Rob Gurwitt
Audio Production by Elana Hadler
Introduction by Marc Freedman

 

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Happy beginnings

Dr. Jack McConnell unretired from golfing to start Volunteers in Medicine, a growing network of free clinics staffed by medical professionals over age 55.


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