Jessica Fong

Born in Hong Kong. Lived in Vancouver, Hong Kong, Shanghai and now studying in Paris. I am fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin, English and conversational French. I'm in my last year of university, double-majoring in Business Administration and Global Communications. At the same time, I'm working as a researcher in an architect firm. When I was in high school in Shanghai, I co-founded the Habitat for Humanity Club in my school (Shanghai American School-Pudong Campus) and I went on the first Habitat trip in the Guangdong province in China. I’ve wanted to get back on another Habitat trip but it never worked out until this trip that fits perfectly in my spring break holiday.
My passions are traveling, bikrim yoga, fashion design,art, architecture, golf, exotic cuisines and experiencing different cultures. I've always wanted to travel to South America and finally, I have the opportunity to. Looking forward to meeting everyone.

Yunkyung Lee

Hello, I’m Yunkyung from Gwangju, very south and western part of Korea,
2012 is my fifth year in Latin America, Bolivia is my fifth country here and Habitat is my first.
I am staying in Honduras, I came here because I love Spanish and Latin culture so I studied Spanish and Latin America language & literature in collage.
I wanted to find a job here to live in Latin territory after graduation and I made it, so lucky! Recently I quit my fourth year job to study in Argentina and find something to do the rest of my life.

I love travel, read and writing, learning language, going museum, animal, all kind of music, meeting people, and everything something new.
I was looking for some meaningful activity, not just travel before I become a student again, and I found this opportunity for me. I am so happy to start early year with you everyone.

Forrest Yelverton

This is my second Habitat International Build (Nepal 2010) as Roger’s allure just keeps me coming back for more. I am recently liberated from 21 years as Engineering VP at a major publicly owned corporation and do not miss a single thing about my old life. I spend roughly 300 hours on a plane every year between travel for work and travel for fun or both and this will be my second venture into South America but first time to Bolivia.

My passion is bicycles. I design them, I build them, I ride them and my latest focus is the development of more elegant and efficient ways of getting one and their “stuff” from where they are to where they want to go...on a bike. When not working or riding on a bike, I’m working on the house that my wife and I built in the Colorado mountains near Lyons. We recently installed 8 more solar thermal panels in a continuing effort to be energy independent in anticipation of the coming global economic and financial collapse.

Thanks to our geriatric bird dog my wife of 29 years unfortunately can not attend the Bolivia build (She did attend Nepal) but would have been a valuable addition with her vast quiver of construction skills spanning more than 35 years! But, I’ll be telling the great stories of this build to her and my 21 year old Daughter currently studying in Kenya and Tanzania.