Over the course of 20 years, Zariq Siddiqui has risen through the sales organization at Abbott Laboratories, Inc., the Chicago-based multinational healthcare and medical devices company. He currently serves as nutrition products sales director, overseeing sales training, analytics, and operations, as well as purchasing and distribution networks throughout the United States. In his leisure time, Zariq Siddiqui is an avid runner and hiker, and supports several charitable activities, including the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging and Habitat for Humanity. When former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn joined the work of Habitat for Humanity in 1984, it gave the fledgling organization valuable visibility. Formally incorporated in Georgia in 1977, the group arose from the development of the concept of partnership housing at Georgia’s Koinonia Farm in 1968. Houses would be built by volunteers, with the costs of materials and land financed with interest-free loans from the Fund for Humanity. The new homeowners would participate in the construction as well as repay those loans, thus funding new loans. This remains the same basic formula under which Habitat for Humanity operates today. The group built its first home in 1968 in Georgia. In 1976, they founded Habitat for Humanity in Americus and began construction of the first Habitat for Humanity house in San Antonio, Texas. Since then, Habitat for Humanity has grown to become an international organization. It has helped 29 million people worldwide build or improve their homes, including more than 7 million in 2019 alone, primarily with the hard work of 1.4 million volunteers.

1. HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - A LABOR
OF LOVE FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS
Zariq Siddiqui

2. Introduction
Over the course of 20 years, Zariq Siddiqui has risen through the sales organization
at Abbott Laboratories, Inc., the Chicago-based multinational healthcare and
medical devices company. He currently serves as nutrition products sales director,
overseeing sales training, analytics, and operations, as well as purchasing and
distribution networks throughout the United States. In his leisure time, Zariq Siddiqui
is an avid runner and hiker, and supports several charitable activities, including the
Christian Foundation for Children and Aging and Habitat for Humanity.

3. When former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn joined the work of
Habitat for Humanity in 1984, it gave the fledgling organization valuable visibility.
Formally incorporated in Georgia in 1977, the group arose from the development of
the concept of partnership housing at Georgia’s Koinonia Farm in 1968.

4. Houses would be built by volunteers, with the costs of materials and land financed with
interest-free loans from the Fund for Humanity. The new homeowners would participate
in the construction as well as repay those loans, thus funding new loans. This remains the
same basic formula under which Habitat for Humanity operates today.

5. The group built its first home in 1968 in Georgia. In 1976, they founded Habitat for
Humanity in Americus and began construction of the first Habitat for Humanity house in
San Antonio, Texas. Since then, Habitat for Humanity has grown to become an
international organization. It has helped 29 million people worldwide build or improve
their homes, including more than 7 million in 2019 alone, primarily with the hard work
of 1.4 million volunteers.