Join the Drive to House South Africa in 2009

We need 2,000 South African Volunteers to participate in our one day Volunteer Builds! Do you think you can spare just one day to build a home for a family! Sign-up and do it today!

The Niall Mellon Township Trust was established in 2002 with the aim of providing quality social housing for the impoverished communities in the townships of South Africa. 

In our first year we completed 150 homes since then we have completed 11,000 homes in total.

Our success has been possible because of the generosity and support we receive from our Volunteers, the general public and the South African and Irish governments.

Building through partnership, with Volunteers, community and government has been our objective from the beginning.

Each year we bring Irish Volunteers to South Africa to participate in a week long “Building Blitz”. 

This brings to a total of 7,000 Irish and South African Volunteers who have participated in our Building Blitzes to-date.

The enormous generosity of Volunteers, partners and donors allows us to build homes in South Africa all year round and we have created employment for 2,000 people from the local townships.  

As part of the charity’s ethos we are heavily involved in training and up-skilling our South African workers.

Community development is also an integral part of the work of the charity, engaging local people in the planning and design of their new communities. All of this is done in close co-operation and partnership with the South African government at national and local level.

We are currently building in 23 townships, 13 in the Western Cape and 10 in Gauteng and although we have only been in existence for seven years we are currently the largest charity provider of quality social homes in South Africa.

You can be part of this too.

Can you spare one day out of your life to build a home for a family living in a shack? Please see out different Volunteer categories.

Schedule of dates for volunteer builds 2009

If you or your friends, family, or company would like to participate in our one day Volunteer Builds, please find a schedule of dates below:

Dates & Venues

July
SAB Build, Gauteng
25 Tsiba build, Cape Town
30 RMB build, Gauteng

August
19 George Build
27 Corporate, Gauteng (PPC confirmed)
29 Rhema, Gauteng

September
7-11 UCT Construction Students, Cape Town
10 Cape Town, Khayelitsha
19 Cape Town, Do it Day, Paarl, Project 2

October
8 Corporate, Gauteng

If you would like to take part in the Challenge

click here to download the 2009 Application Form, or call us on +27 21 426 2540 to receive one by post.

If you can’t come, perhaps you know someone who would be interested.

Donations are always greatly appreciated, and every cent give goes straight to the charity. Administration costs will not be taken from donations made.

To make a donation click here.