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Thunderstorms. High 87F. Winds ENE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 100%.
Clear to partly cloudy. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low 68F. Winds light and variable.
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Thunderstorms. High 87F. Winds ENE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 100%.
Clear to partly cloudy. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low 68F. Winds light and variable.
Sunshine and some clouds. High around 90F. Winds light and variable.
Mamii (far right) and her son (far left) help move a wall panel into position during a Habitat for Humanity ‘panel build’ for their home in Murfreesboro recently.
Mamii (far right) and her son (far left) help move a wall panel into position during a Habitat for Humanity ‘panel build’ for their home in Murfreesboro recently.
The journey to Murfreesboro’s Habitat for Humanity — Legacy Pointe subdivision has taken new homeowner Mamii more than 20 years and two continents.
She helped to build wall panels in the parking lot of First United Methodist Church in Murfreesboro recently, along with more than 100 volunteers from the First United and St. Mark’s United Methodist churches.
The “panel build” is a technique that uses volunteers to pre-fabricate all the walls for a Habitat for Humanity home. After the 100-volunteer panel build, the new home’s walls are trucked to the Legacy Pointe subdivision and installed on the home’s concrete pad.
When Mamii was 5, she faced a 500-mile walk with her family away from a guerilla war in the Republic of the Congo to a Tanzanian refugee camp with more than 100,000 other refugees. She first lived in a stick hut covered with sheets of fabric, and then in a mud hut built of bricks she and her family made themselves.
Mamii and her young family were selected in the asylum lottery and arrived in Nashville in 2016, one woman and two children among 17 families, a total of more than 120 persons. Mamii and her family stayed in an extended stay hotel for more than six months before the group was transferred to a Murfreesboro apartment complex.
World Relief continued to assist by helping enroll the children in school and helping the adults find jobs. Mimii had worked at Tyson Foods in Shelbyville and now works for Advanced Auto’s Parts Distribution Center in Smyrna.
In 2017 she moved into another apartment. She is currently in her Habitat-sponsored, 30-week Financial Literacy and Homeowner Education program, and is contributing a minimum of 300 hours of “sweat equity,” assisting in the construction of her home.
“We are so grateful and blessed to have the continuing support of these two United Methodist Churches,” Rutherford County Habitat for Humanity Executive Director Terri Shultz said. “With higher costs of lumber and many construction materials, this commitment of support means we can help more families realize their dreams of an affordable home.”
Legacy Pointe currently is home to 14 families and will eventually have 77 houses for low- and moderate-income individuals and families. Mamii’s house is scheduled to be built by the end of the year and she said she hopes to move her family into the home by Christmas.
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