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Announcement :: Housing |
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HomeBuilders Blitz: 4 Houses in 5 Days |
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by Eileen Gebbie
Email: volunteer (nospam) cuhabitat.org (verified)
Phone: 2173556460
Address: 111 N Market St Champaogn |
19 May 2006
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From 5 - 9 June, Habitat for Humanity will build four homes in five days in N. Champaign. |
Over 27,000 people live in poverty in Champaign County. Those families are unable to improve their situation for many reasons, among them the discrepancy between wages and housing costs in this community. As you know, Habitat for Humanity is just one partner for families in need, offering a "hand up" through no-interest mortgages and decent, appropriately-sized homes.
Over the last 16 years, we've built 40 homes. From June 5 - 9 we will build four, all within a three-block radius in north Champaign, through the HomeBuilders Blitz program. Through Habitat's homes, these families will have a new beginning for themselves as will their neighborhood.
The home materials and construction labor have been generously donated by area businesses (The Atkins Group, Ramshaw Real Estate, Signature Homes, TimberCreek Developers and many of their subcontractors and suppliers) but we are calling on all citizens to make time to fill our thousands of volunteer hours in food service, parking and on-site materials management.
If you are interested and available in helping this first week of June (and would like to sign up for one of the orientations listed above), contact me at 217/355.6460 x10 or volunteer (at) cuhabitat.org. I will review volunteer schedules and openings and get you signed up for the orientation of your choice.
Thank you for your help in making these 4 homes a reality for the Starns, Webb, Grantham, and Winston families! I look forward to seeing you on the worksite the first week of June!
Eileen Gebbie
Habitat Volunteer & Outreach Manager |
See also:
http://www.cuhabitat.org
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