EZRA MILLSTEIN PHOTOGRAPHY

Habitat United States

Vicky Rosenzweig, from Philadelphia, helps to rehabilitate a house as part of Habitat for Humanity's 2011 Americorps Build-A-Thon. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
Tornado damage in Rosedale Courts, a neighborhood of one-story government assistance housing in Tuscaloosa. On April 27th a historic tornado outbreak ravaged six Southern states, killing hundreds, injuring many more, flattening neighborhoods and forcing the closure of a nuclear power plant in Alabama, the hardest-hit state. It was believed to be the deadliest U.S. tornado in 37 years.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
Jenny Oliva stands among the ruins of her kitchen. She and her family moved into this Habitat for Humanity home in 2008. It was severely damaged when tornados ravaged the Tuscaloosa area on April 27th, 2011. They have been staying at her parents house since then.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
     
  
A can of paint, used by Americorps Volunteers as they helped to rehabilitate a house, as part of the Habitat for Humanity2011 Americorps Build-A-Thon. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
Doug Cook (right) works with other volunteers to re-shingle the roof of the Michael Foster's home, on the first day of the 2010 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project. The project improved the living conditions of 28 families in the Wylam and Fairfield communities, through a combination of new construction, rehabilitation and repairs. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
Joey Maddox and his daughter Elaine visit the construction site of their new Habitat home, where they moved in 2008. The rest of their family includes mother Kristin, seven year-old Jourdon Pierce, six year-old Jakob Tweedel, and two year-old Ella.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
     
  
Nine year-old Destiny Jackson sits at a desk in her room, doing her homework. She and her mother Deirdre Jackson, a schoolteacher, lived in New Orleans East before losing everything to Hurricane Katrina. "We had nothing to go back to," said Deirdre, who has resettled in Jackson, Mississippi, in a house built in partnership with Metro Jackson Habitat for Humanity. She shares her home in the Poindexter Park neighborhood with Destiny, her 16-year-old nephew, Patrick, and two tuxedo cats, Adam and Eve.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
Diana Destry is overcome by emotion as she sits inside her nearly-completed Habitat for Humanity home.© Habitat for Humanity International
   
Volunteer Brian Yamaguchi, from Los Angeles, California, helps to paint the Smith family's new Habitat home on the first day of the 2010 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project. The project improved the living conditions of 28 families in the Wylam and Fairfield communities, through a combination of new construction, rehabilitation and repairs. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
     
  
Five year-old Acacia Johnson carefully sweeps the floor of her soon-to-be bedroom, in her family’s new Habitat house. Acacia lived with her mother Maryann and three year-old sister Amaya in a small home in Fairbanks, until they moved into this new three-bedroom Habitat home in July 2008. It keeps them warm during the long Alaskan winters. The girls have already found a way to combat the darkness of winter in the 49th state, by painting their bedrooms pink and purple.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
Five year-old Acacia Johnson looks out the window of her soon-to-be bedroom, in her family’s new Habitat house. Acacia lived with her mother Maryann and three year-old sister Amaya in a small home in Fairbanks, until they moved into this new three-bedroom Habitat home in July 2008.© Habitat for Humanity International
   
This woman and her dog live in a drafty trailer in Soldotna. Several families have moved out of the trailer parks and into Habitat houses. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
     
  
Two native Alaskan children live in a run-down trailer park in Anchorage. Several families have moved from these mobile homes into Habitat houses.© Habitat for Humanity International
   
Global Village volunteers take a break from building a new Habitat house.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
Kali Brand (pictured) lives with her mother Amber and sister Javian, in a new Habitat home in the 32nd and Spenard Townhome Community. Construction began on this 12-townhome community in the Spenard area of Anchorage in May, 2006, and over 3,300 different volunteers have donated more than 48,000 hours. There are currently nine homeowner families living there, and the final three families are diligently working on their sweat equity hours with hopes of closing on their homes by late summer or early fall. © Habitat for Humanity International
     
  
Angelina Lopez tends her garden in the front yard of her Habitat home. She and her daughter Janai moved into the house in 2005. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
Dawn Lovett is one of 10 homeowners who have settled into their Habitat homes in Diamondhead, Mississippi, near Gulfport, that were built during the 2008 Carter Work Project. Before Hurricane Katrina, Lovett rented an apartment; post-Katrina, she had been forced to live in a FEMA trailer in a dangerous neighborhood. Now, she lives in the security of Diamondhead with her 17-year-old daughter, Britney Necaise and 2-month-old daughter Kadence (pictured). © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
A volunteer helps to build Habitat's 300,000th house worldwide. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
     
  
Rose Garraux holds her 10 month-old daughter Medney, after the walls of their new Habitat home were raised by volunteers. The house is Habitat's 300,000th. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
Volunteers help to build Habitat's 300,000th house worldwide. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
Children play in the cul-de-sac in front of Nancy Hermanson's house. Nancy and her seven children, Jerry (18), Raesha (13), Dwuane (12), Raylene (10), Jenne (5), Ethen (4) and Jeovahnni (2), moved into a new Habitat home in January 2009. Nancy works as an insurance agent at LA Insurance. She graduated from the Section 8 Family Self Sufficiency program through the Las Vegas Housing Authority. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
     
  
39 year-old Victor Valdera looks out the window of his Habitat home, which was completed during the Summer of 2009. Victor was electrocuted at the age of five and lost both of his arms. His 66 year-old mother Herna is his full-time caretaker; she feeds, dresses and bathes him. Victor has been in and out of hospitals and doctorÕs offices for his entire life, and will inevitably end up using a wheelchair. They have lived in an asbestos-lined second-floor apartment for over eight years. Their new house has been specially designed to meet Victor's needs, with ramps, extra large rooms and other features. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
Volunteer Nyoka Pierce, from Baltimore, installs siding on a new Habitat home during the 2009 Americorps Build-a-Thon. 500 Habitat for Humanity Americorps members and alumni helped 20 families build houses in the community hardest hit by the Iowa floods of 2008.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
During the 2009 Americorps Build-a-Thon, 500 Habitat for Humanity Americorps members and alumni helped 20 families build houses in the community hardest hit by the Iowa floods of 2008.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
     
  
Volunteer Jason Skipworth, from Virginia, helps to build a new Habitat house during the 2009 Americorps Build-a-Thon. 500 Habitat for Humanity Americorps members and alumni helped 20 families build houses in the community hardest hit by the Iowa floods of 2008.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
The sun sets behind Hanalei Bay on Kauai's North Shore.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
A fire dancer performs a traditional Hawaiian dance.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein