Former President Jimmy Carter, 94, is set to resume building houses with Habitat for Humanity after he underwent hip surgery months ago.
He and his wife, Rosalynn, 92, will be in Nashville in early October to help build 21 homes, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“There have been many times when people have tried to count President Carter out, and they have never been right,” said Bryan Thomas, a spokesman for Habitat for Humanity International. “We are excited that they will both back.”
The couple has helped build more than 4,300 homes in 14 countries since 1984.
Carter underwent surgery in May after he fell and broke his hip at his home in Plains, Georgia, as he was preparing to go turkey hunting. Around the same time, 92-year-old Rosalynn was hospitalized due to feeling faint.
Carter returned to teaching his usual Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church less than a month after he had surgery.
A former submariner in the Navy and Annapolis graduate, Carter is the oldest living former U.S. president. He served one term in the White House from 1977 to 1981 after defeating President Gerald Ford, who assumed the presidency after the Watergate scandal, in 1976. Carter lost to Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election.
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