Today marks the start of Delta’s six city building blitz for Habitat for Humanity. While the airline has been involved with Habitat for a number of years, this is the first time employees from across the nation will be simultaneously building homes in multiple cities, which include Atlanta, Cincinnati, Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis, and New York.

Habitat For Humanity’s mission is to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. To accomplish this goal, people of all backgrounds, races and religions are invited to build houses together in partnership with families in need, using volunteer labor and donations of money and materials.

To this end, Delta Air Lines and the Delta Air Lines Foundation have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars for the six city builds. Over $85,000 of this was raised from Delta’s recycling programs. Perhaps even more important than the monetary donation, however, is the labor provided by the 2200 Delta employees who will donate their time to work along side the future homeowners to build houses over the next several weeks.

“Delta people have a long tradition of supporting the communities where we live and work with more than one million hours of service donated to Habitat for Humanity in the last decade,” said Ed Bastian, president of Delta Air Lines. “We are proud to be an integral part of making affordable, decent housing a reality for many low-income families around the world.”

For more information, visit Habitat for Humanity or if you’d like to support Habitat by donating SkyMiles, please visit our SkyWish site.

Frank
Manager, External Affairs and Community Relations