(CNN) -- If you're looking for love and not having much luck, maybe you could increase your success by getting a bit more passionate -- about helping others.



Dave Chung and Kim Benty share a love of volunteer work in New Orleans.



When singles write to advice columnists complaining about being lonely, they are often urged to volunteer.



Duane Bates, the public relations director for Habitat for Humanity, says it's not unusual for their volunteers to meet on a building site and "end up together."



Victor Fasolino was living in New Jersey and his future wife, Lora, was living in Seattle, Washington, when the two met in Hungary in 1996 while volunteering on a Jimmy Carter Work Project for Habitat.



"I thought she was an attractive young lady," recalls Victor Fasolino, adding that they were working 10-12 hour days so it wasn't until the project was almost complete that they got to spend much time together.



Both were committed volunteers and had signed up for a Habitat fundraising bike ride of 500 miles two weeks after they returned to the United States. They got to know each other while pedaling from Kentucky to Atlanta, Georgia.



The two got married one year later atop a house they helped build during another project in Pikesville, Kentucky. Other volunteers had cleaned and scraped a ladder so the bride wouldn't get her wedding gown dirty climbing to the roof. The groom wore a tuxedo, a local minister officiated and a fiddler joined them on the roof to provide the music.



This year, Victor, 56, and Lora Fasolino, 46, will again work on former President Carter's 2009 Habitat work project, building houses in five countries: Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and China -- along the Mekong River in southeast Asia.



In 2007, Dave Chung and Kim Benty found each other while helping Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans, Louisiana.



Chung had been a pro golfer playing mini-tours in California and living half the year in Toronto, Ontario, when he got the urge to drive down to New Orleans to volunteer.



"I really liked the place, and the people," says Chung. "The original plan was to come down here for two months and go to a friend's wedding, but I ended up staying."



At first the 30-something golfer worked for Habitat for Humanity, learning plumbing and wiring. Then he went to work with Liz McCartney, 2008 CNN Hero of the Year, at the St. Bernard Project.



Meanwhile, Kim Benty, 36, an interpreter for the deaf in the western New York town of Batavia, began a series of trips in July 2007 to work with volunteers in the same area.



Benty was smitten after meeting Chung on her first trip, but he merely smiled and went back to work.



"He was doing a little of everything, a runner, bringing supplies, our construction manager," Benty remembers. "I thought, you know, I am just another volunteer to him."



There were several more trips, a few chance meetings -- but no sparks. But something changed when they met yet again in December 2008 at a friend's Christmas party. "We just hit it off that night," Chung says.



Chung says he was attracted to her for a million little reasons: "She's attractive, fun to be around and both of us are kind of easygoing."



But then it was time for Benty to go back to New York and for Chung to make the long drive to Canada to see his relatives.



Chung's New Year's Eve plans fell though, so he asked Benty about coming down. They hung out for a few days and Chung was set to drive by himself back to New Orleans.



"She hopped in the car with me, and came down. It really surprised the people who knew her," Chung says, "because she is the kind of person who likes to plan everything."



"Ha, it did surprise people," Benty admits. "I am very
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question: Who got married?, answer: Victor Fasolino | question: Where did the couple work?, answer: New Orleans. | question: What organization did the couple volunteer for?, answer: Habitat | question: Where did the couple get married at?, answer: atop a house they helped build | question: Where did couple get married?, answer: Pikesville, Kentucky. | question: What did the organization spokesperson say?, answer: it's not unusual for their volunteers to meet on a building site and "end up together." | question: What passion brought Carol and John Coonrod together?, answer: a love of volunteer work | question: What organization were the couple working for when they met?, answer: Jimmy Carter Work Project