Jimmy Carter redefined what a president can do after departing the White House, leaving a lasting imprint through his work overseas, particularly in the realm of public health.
Former President Jimmy Carter, left, and Suleiman Jasir al-Herbish, the director general of the OPEC Fund for International Development, in 2010. The fund provided financial support for the Carter Center’s efforts to eliminate Guinea worm disease.
In his decades as a former president, he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, helped bring lifesaving treatments and sanitation to poor people around the world.
Former President Jimmy Carter visited a village in what is now South Sudan in 2011 to inspect progress in efforts to eradicate Guinea worm disease, supported by The Carter Center.
Rising from Georgia farmland to the White House, he oversaw the historic Camp David peace accords, but his one-term presidency was waylaid by troubles at home and abroad.
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