The Charity's 8th Building Blitz will take place in Wallacedene from 7th to 13th November 2009.

• Wallacedene has a population of 21,000 and is one of the poorest townships in Cape Town. You will be building houses for a community group or “project” known as Masizakhele 3.
• Wallacedene, an informal housing settlement was formed between 1985 and 1989 and some of the residents have been on housing waiting lists for fifteen to twenty years.
• There is severe over-crowding in the area with anything from seven to fifteen people living in just one shack. Levels of HIV/AIDS and TB are very high, as with other townships.
• It is estimated that one in three suffers from HIV and it is recorded that there is a particularly high incidence of HIV amongst children aged thirteen and upwards.
• Secondary School education for local children on average ends at grade 8 (first year in secondary school). Employment centre ’s around hawking, selling commodities like maize; fruits and vegetables and even sour milk.
• There are ten churches altogether, thirteen crèches, and four schools (including three primary schools and one high school)

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