Former United States’ President Jimmy Carter, who has been diagnosed with cancer, will travel to Nepal to build homes with 1,500 volunteers in November, according to Habitat for Humanity. 

In August,  Carter  revealed that he had been diagnosed with cancer in his brain but still hoped to make a scheduled trip to Nepal. “I really wanted to go to Nepal to build houses,” he had said.  

Habitat for Humanity in a press statement, released on Tuesday, said that he received consent from his medical team to travel to Nepal. Carter and his wife Rosalynn will participate in Habitat for Humanity’s 32nd annual Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project , from Nov. 1-6,  in Chitwan.  “During the week, 1,500 volunteers from within Nepal and around the world will help build permanent homes in partnership with low-income families in the Nayabasti Gairigaun village. A majority of these families are Dalits, who are considered the lowest group in the Nepali caste system,” reads the statement. 

Carter’s melanoma, a form of skin cancer, has been discovered in four places on his brain and is likely to “show up other places in my body”, the former US president said speaking to reporters last month. 

The 39th president of The United States and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, he went on to establish the Carter Center. He  has travelled the world as a peace broker and human rights advocate.  He was last in Kathmandu in Nov. 2013, for a week-long visit to observe Nepal’s Constituent Assembly elections.