1310 N Champaign , Champaign

Homebuilders Blitz 2006

1 Neighborhood

Four Families

Four Homes

Five Days

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Meet Bevin Webb and her three children

Bevin Webb juggles her three adorable children – Tiana (8), Sierra (2), who also goes by SiSi), and Isaiah (1 year) – in their tiny apartment with so much ease, it’s hard to believe she’s a 25-year-old single mother with a full-time job at Carle’s The Caring Place. Her apartment is spotless. All three of her children have big brown eyes just like their mother.

One day, after reviewing the plans for her new three-bedroom Habitat home, she asked Tiana to take SiSi and Isaiah to to play for a while. After the children are gone, she spoke of life in one of Urbana’s most crime-ridden areas of town.

“Every day when I bring the children to school and day care, we have to wade through broken beer bottles and used condoms,” she said, her voice lowered so the children – just in the next room in the tiny apartment – won’t hear. “Every day on the way home, we have to make our way through dozens of men standing around, drinking beer, and sitting on the hoods of the cars in the parking lot. They whistle, they ask me if I have a man, they look at my children.”

It’s clear that Bevin is very eager to leave this place. “My children aren’t safe here – they need a place where they can go outside and play and be safe. Habitat is going to make that happen for us. I am just so grateful.”

The Webb's three-bedroom home will be built for them at 1403 N. Walnut in Champaign by The Atkins Group during the Home Builders Blitz, June 5 through 9, 2006.

by Vickie Jo Varvel