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Former President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn work together as they lay out mortar on concrete blocks of a home Monday in Maragondon, Philippines, 37 miles southwest of Manila. The house will be completed by the weekend for a mother of five who earns $5 a day making sticks for barbecued meat. Carter is leading more than 2,000 volunteers in the construction of nearly 300 low-cost homes in the former communist rebel sanctuary. "By the end of this year, we will have built about 85,000 houses somewhere in the world," Carter told reporters, referring to a house-building program launched in 1976 by Habitat for Humanity International, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization.