Millard Fuller, who founded Habitat for Humanity International with his wife Linda Fuller, has Died at Age 74

Millard Fuller, who founded Habitat for Humanity International with his wife, has died. He was 74. In a statement on the Website of the organization, it stated that Fuller died early Tuesday “after a brief illness.”

Millard and Linda Fuller founded Habitat for Humanity in 1976 — though they had been working on housing issues for years before then — and helped shape it into an aid organization that has built more than 300,000 houses around the world. Fuller had suffered from chest congestion for three to four weeks, said Holly Chapman, spokesman for the Fuller Center.

Habitat for Humanity gained publicity in the 1980s when former President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, started volunteering for the organization, which they still do. The former president was on Habitat’s board of directors from 1984 to 1987. The world has lost a great servant leader.

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