A local group is reaching out to the family of Amber Harris, the Omaha girl kidnapped and killed in 2005. Boys To Men is helping to fix up the Harris home.

Boys To Men teaches disadvantaged youths the skills they need to get a job. The young men were hard at work Tuesday on a little home improvement at 16th and Spencer while learning a lesson in the process.

“What we're doing here at the Harris house is giving them what we call a community hug,” says Carlton Tucker of Boys To Men. “We figure if anybody needs a hug, it’s the Harris' and what we're doing is some general repair on their home.”

The crews are focused now on power-washing and painting the outside and will be also be replacing the windows, kitchen cabinet and flooring.

“I do believe what they're learning is to give back,” says Tucker. “It's not always taking, but sometimes you have to give back."

Twenty-three people are currently in the Boys To Men program.