Jimmy Carter resting after being released from night in Winnipeg hospital

Jimmy Carter was released from a Winnipeg hospital on Friday and briefly returned to a Habitat for Humanity build site before being taken away for further rest.

A statement from the Carter Center,a not-for-profit organization founded by the former U.S. president, said he wanted toattendthe 8 a.m. devotional at the build site, helping kick off the day.

He then left for some rest but planned to return for the closing ceremony at the site, and to thank all of the volunteers for their work, a Habitat for Humanity spokesperson said.

• Jimmy Carter gets medical attention after collapsing

The Carter Center said 92-year-oldandhis wife,Rosalynn, appreciate the many well-wishes they received worldwide after his hospitalizationbecame headline news.

One of those came Thursday evening from another ex-president, Bill Clinton.

Carter required the medical attention Thursdaymorning after feeling unwell and collapsing at the Habitat build site in the city's St. James neighbourhood.

He spent the nightat St. Boniface Hospital, where he was treated for dehydration.

Habitat for Humanity executives said on Thursday that Carter had gone to the hospital for observation and rehydration.

They also said he contacted them from the hospital and advised them he was feeling fine and wanted everyone to keep building the homes, which are intended forlower-income families.

On Friday, Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman tweeted a photo of him greeting Carter upon his return to the build site.

Carterthe U.S. president from 1977 to 1981 and Rosalynnarelongtime supporters of Habitat for Humanity and are helping the not-for-profit organization with a blitz build of 25 homes in the city.

The last time Carter was in Manitoba was 1993, when he lent a hand at the construction sites for 18 other Winnipeg homes through the Habitatorganization.

Sandy Hopkins, chief executive of the Manitoba chapter of Habitat for Humanity,said earlier this week thatCarter wanted to return to the city because of Habitat'scommitment to provide40 per cent of the latest homes to Indigenous people.