June Charity – Niall Mellon Township Trust
June is another Charity Month at DoneDeal and this month for each ad placed 30 cent will be given to the Niall Mellon Township Trust. The trust was established in 2002 with the aim of providing quality social housing for the impoverished communities in the townships of South Africa. Did you know that there are 4.3 million people living in shacks in townships across South Africa? With the generosity and support received by Irish people and from across the globe, the trust has managed to build 13,500 homes and house 80,000 people to date.
In addition, each year Irish volunteers and friends from across the globe head to South Africa in week long “Building Blitzes”. Click here for some video coverage from 2009. Maybe one or two of us here in DoneDeal might put on our hard hats and head out there in November to give a helping hand!
With your help, we want to raise funds for such an important cause. If you wish to get involved you can get more information on the website.
Could you not find a more deserving cause? Ireland needs to conserve its limited resources during these times.
South Africa is the RICHEST country in Africa yet persistently rides highest for crime, disease, corruption, illegal immigration and ineptitude.
Unlike the government Mandela promised, it now lavishes the country’s resources on beneficiating itself and its confidants with abject disregard for the squatting and squalour it alone has abetted for 14 years at rising costs to taxpayers.
Why otherwise can this charity simply never succeed by settling just 80 000 out of 4.3 million homeless (and still exponentially counting)? Surely just a sponsored working holiday week?
But which crime syndicate then runs the township to welcome, dilute and soak up even more charitable funds? City mayors in South Africa are not elected. They enjoy nepotistic appointments by provincial governments (only one Province not under the ruling party of Government).
Could Ireland afford the grandeur of a World Cup? Does Ireland have the future riches and resources of South Africa?
But South Africa has the manpower and funds to waste to even build almost ANYTHING of humanitarian need in Ireland!
Thus, instead of looking for a more deserving charity for South Africa which perhaps can achieve success through effective pressures and demands on the South African Government, to itself appropriately remedy the homelessness it continues to create through mismanagement, please just support local charities for local needs.
Thank you
Teresa
Hi Teresa, thank you for this information. We have previously picked the Simon Community and MS Ireland as our charities, however we felt that the Niall Mellon Trust does some great work and therefore picked them for the June charity month. We are glad to have been able to have help them.