Garth Brooks Helps Build And Repair Houses In Birmingham During Annual Habitat For Humanity Jimmy And Rosalynn Carter Work Project

Birmingham, AL (Top40 Charts/ Habitat for Humanity International) - Garth Brooks and hundreds of volunteers built and repaired houses in Birmingham as part of the 27th annual Habitat for Humanity Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project.

An avid supporter of Habitat, Brooks worked in the Wylam Oaks subdivision of Birmingham. Brooks also performed for Habitat supporters on Thursday evening.

Brooks and his wife, Trisha Yearwood, previously have volunteered with Habitat in the Gulf Coast and in Los Angeles.

Throughout the week, volunteers helped to build, rehabilitate or repair a total of 86 homes in Washington, D.C.; Baltimore and Annapolis, Md.; Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn.; and Birmingham, Ala., as part of the Carter Work Project.

Birmingham volunteers are building 10 new homes in the Fairfield and Wylam Oaks subdivisions, and an additional 18 homes will be rehabilitated or repaired.