Table Quiz for Niall Mellon Trust

Trust has rehoused 100,000 people in AfricaThere's a Table Quiz in Bardons on Wednesday 15 May in aid of Sarah Kavanagh's upcoming trip to Kenya as a volunteer with the Niall Mellon Township Trust.

Sarah has to raise €4,500 for the trip. The usual Ts&Cs, €10 per person and four to a team. Kicks off sharp at 9pm.

The Niall Mellon Township Trust is a house building charity which works throughout the year in the townships of South Africa. The Trust runs its own skills development programme, training people from those townships in a wide range of construction disciplines, as well as operating a short-term volunteer overseas programme bringing volunteers to build houses in the townships.

It was started in 2002 by Irish developer Niall Mellon, who was so deeply moved by the plight of impoverished families in the Townships of South Africa that he set up the charity with a view to doing something concrete about it.

To date the Trust has housed in or around 100,000 people. It is extending its work to Kenya this year, with a Building Blitz in October to construct a primary school for the children of Saint Catherine's Primary School in Mukuru, Nairobi.