Volunteers begin African ‘building blitz’

THIS morning three chartered jumbo jets took off from Dublin, and one from Shannon, to ferry an army of tradesmen and volunteers for a week-long building frenzy in Africa.

The group’s seven-day mission will be to build a record 200 houses in one of Cape Town’s most deprived neighbourhoods.

By the time the 2007 Niall Mellon Township building blitz is finished, 1,350 Irish volunteers will have provided housing for 1,200 citizens of Freedom Park.