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Move-in day: Habitat for Humanity helps out a family that fled Katrina

HARRISBURG — More than six years after Hurricane Katrina forced them from their home in a New Orleans suburb, the seven-member Robin family on Sunday got the keys to the first house they’ve owned since.

It’s a brand new one, too.

The 1,400-square-foot, four-bedroom house on a quiet Harrisburg side street is the 14th home dedicated by the Junction City/Harrisburg/Monroe offshoot of Habitat for Humanity to a partner family since the nonprofit organization’s founding in 1995.

Work on the latest house began in June and was completed thanks to more than 1,000 work hours put in by 67 volunteers, and thanks to approximately $14,000 worth of donated or discounted materials and services from a myriad of local businesses.

Roy and Melissa Robin and their five boys — River, Trenten, Sef, Destin and Hunter — together clocked more than 700 work hours of their own. Struggling to contain their collective excitement, the family proudly showed off the home to about 50 volunteers, family members and new neighbors Sunday afternoon.

“That’s my high school over there,” said River, 17, pointing to a purple building over the backyard fence. “And those are the train tracks that Hunter can see from his room. He loves trains. Right, Hunter?”

Turning red, Hunter, 5, gave a quick, bashful nod.

“This is just a dream,” Melissa said.

Things were very different six years ago when most of the family was crammed into a single-wide trailer in Oklahoma with 10 other people, desperately seeking some news about their home outside New Orleans.

Evacuations were nothing new to the Robins, who had driven to the trailer, owned by a relative, a couple of days before Hurricane Katrina hit.

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About a year ago, a good friend of mine approached me to build his new home. My friend is an aid worker and spends a lot of his time away from the UK, when he is in the country he spends a lot of his time seeing people in different areas of the country, so obviously the mobile house is the way forward.

I have lived in vehicles on and off for many years and with his additional experience of this lifestyle in mind we have designed something that works really well as a small home.

The complexity of the build is something that I wasn’t really quite prepared for, and has caused me several sleepless nights to say the least, however, I think I can finally see an end in sight.

You can view Dan’s project in much more detail on his blog http://dmc-makerofthings.blogspot.com/ as I have just posted a few of his pictures. Great job Dan, your friend will have many goods years in your beautiful cedar strip trailer.

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