Who says you can’t go home again?

That’s a question being answered by about 35 hard-working volunteers from Bone Dry Roofing, a company on Indianapolis’ Northwestside.

They are determined to make a family home habitable again for a New Palestine woman who suffers from pulmonary fibrosis and dementia — and who could return to live in her home after it has some necessary renovations.

“The house had everything you needed to live there, but there was no financial way we were going to be able to do all the work with my husband out of work and my working to raise a family and care for my mother,” Alisha Caudill said recently.

One night during a job search for her husband, the couple came across a Web site for Bone Dry Roofing’s Community Assistance Program, an effort to provide makeovers for homeowners in need.

They filled out the application, hoping the home of Alisha’s mother — Katherine Koch — would be chosen.

“Short of going on national TV. . . . I didn’t know what else to do,” Caudill said. “That home was built by my grandparents in the 1960s, and it has been in the family every since.”

Koch, 61, lives a long-term rehabilitation facility in Franklin and is unaware that her three-bedroom, one-bathroom home is under renovation.

She has lived a lifetime of struggle — raising three children on her own while working as a state employee — and it is her remaining daughter’s desire to be able to see her mother live out her days in the home where she raised her children.

Kelly Croteau, a spokeswoman for Bone Dry Roofing, said Koch’s story is the kind of situation company owner Gene Judd wants to help. This is the second home to be renovated under the program.

Applicants must be in need, not be at risk for foreclosure and have been active in their community.

For the past two weeks, volunteers have been gutting the home; replacing the roof, insulation, gutters, siding and windows; and performing renovations to the home’s heating and cooling systems, bathroom and laundry facilities.

On Oct. 24, the first day of the renovation project, volunteers cleaned debris from the yard and began work on the interior and exterior of the home.

“It’s a good feeling to be able to help someone in need of assistance,” said Rose Ruddell, a Bone Dry Roofing employee. “This is a heartfelt story, and doing something like this makes your problems seem very small.”

Dave Carpenter is another Bone Dry employee who had a hand in selecting Koch’s home for renovation. He said it is always a good idea to help those in need — especially when the company has so many connections to suppliers in the area.

Carpenter said that with the demolition process out of the way, he expected the windows, roofing and framing work to be completed quickly.

“I wouldn’t want to be going through what she is going through,” he said. “She deserves to come back to her home and know it is safe for her to live in.”