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House Handovers

18 Nov 2011

Today, Nov. 18th, 500 South Africans lives in the township of Witsand were utterly changed. Children, parents and grandparents left behind damp unsanitary conditions and the constant threat of shack fires to begin a new life free of fear and brimming with possibility thanks to the Irish volunteers who...

Cork Local Papers Anne Marie Kelly

17 Nov 2011

Anne Maire Kelly is on her fourth Niall Mellon Township Trust Blitz. The Carlton Kinsale Hotel & C-Spa General Manager was so committed to returning this year that she took out a personal loan just to get to Witsand Township to help build houses, change lives and have the best craic in the world....

Sunday World - Cashel Community School

17 Nov 2011

Cashel Community School teacher Brendan Ryan is on his seventh Niall Mellon Township Trust Blitz. It's his fifth year taking along a small team of his sixth year students bringing up the total of Cashel Community School student blitzers between the ages of sixteen and nineteen to thirty four. Brendan...

Clare Local Papers- Maurice Costelloe

16 Nov 2011

56 year old Maurice Costello of Ogonnelloe, Co. Clare has been on eight Niall Mellon Township Trust Building Blitz’s. When I ask him what brings him back to the Cape Town Townships he smiles and says it’s the friends his made, not just in his fellow Irish co-workers but also in the people...

Blachardstown/Tullamore local papers.Terry Hilliard

15 Nov 2011

Paddy Molloy is on his 2nd Niall Mellon Township Trust Building Blitz. Last November he travelled with good friend Terry Hilliard but this year Terry isn’t here not because he didn’t want to return, he did and had planned to do so but earlier this year, still only in his forties he suffered...

600 Irish People Trarvel To South Africa

12 Nov 2011

The Irish Economy is in turmoil and many of our people are facing real hardship in their own lives, simply trying to survive and to stay above water. Despite this over 600 Irish People will leave Ireland leave this coming Friday to volunteer and work for a week in one of the poorest Townships in South...

A Job Well Done!

19 Nov 2010

A Job Well Done! 750 Niall Mellon Township Trust Volunteers hand over homes to 800 People in South Africa. The bright colours of the 11 volunteer teams that handed over 140 houses to the people in the township of Wallacedene represented the joy and overwhelming elation felt by the 800 people who...

The Irish are Back! – 750 volunteers walk onto site on the

14 Nov 2010

The Irish are Back! – 750 volunteers walk onto site on the Niall Mellon Township Trust Building Blitz The sense of excitement and anticipation as the 750 volunteers landed in Cape Town for the Niall Mellon Township Trust Building Blitz was quite extraordinary. From all parts of Ireland and from...

750 volunteers to descend on Cape Town

10 Nov 2010

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it’s off to work we go…. This Saturday 13th will see 750 Irish volunteers leaving the shores of Ireland to go on the Niall Mellon Township Trust Building Blitz. These volunteers, from all walks of life, have over come the recession obstacles in Ireland and are doing their...

Irish Volunteers “Pitch” in to help community of Wallacedene.

13 Nov 2009

For the past eight years the Irish volunteers of the Niall Mellon Township Trust and the children of the townships in which they build, have kicked ball in the sand amongst the miles of ramshackle shacks. Today, inspired by the sheer joy on the faces of the children at the sight of a football, the Trust...

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House Handovers

Cork Local Papers Anne Marie Kelly

Sunday World - Cashel Community School

Clare Local Papers- Maurice Costelloe

Blachardstown/Tullamore local papers.Terry Hilliard

600 Irish People Trarvel To South Africa

A Job Well Done!

The Irish are Back! – 750 volunteers walk onto site on the

750 volunteers to descend on Cape Town

Irish Volunteers “Pitch” in to help community of Wallacedene.

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