‘Theme Park’ Offers a Tour of World Poverty

Habitat for Humanity, the nonprofit group that builds low-cost housing, is opening a “theme park” at its world headquarters in Americus this week designed to give tourists a look at the world’s worst slums.

Millard Fuller, founder of the organization, said he expects the Global Village & Discovery Center to attract as many as 70,000 tourists in its first year. “Essentially, it’s a theme park for poverty housing,” Fuller said. “You’ll come out of the center and walk right into a slum. You’ll see the kind of pitiful living conditions so many people in the world have.”