Mfuleni Township Project | Accommodation in Somerset West | Guest House stay close to Mfuleni

Mooring House, Guest House in Somerset West provides suitable accommodation for volunteers assisting with the Mfuleni Township Project. Easy access to and from the N2 route to the Township roughly a 20 minute drive away.Just off the N2 and cllose to Blue Downs.

The build will take place in Mfuleni which is a relatively new township about 40 kilometres from Cape Town, South Africa (about 1 hour by bus). It is a predominantly "Black" (African) township, although there are also some "Coloured" members of the community. [Wikipedia]The area got its name from the Xhosa word meaning “by the river”. People started to settle there in the 1960s. In the beginning it was a transit area for migrant labourers.The first houses were built in 1976 and most of the dwellings are houses or brick structures with a yard (44%), however, there are also many informal shacks without water and electricity supply (36%).Founded by Irish property developer and philanthropist Niall Mellon in 2002, the charity began building houses in its first township, Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay, in 2003.Since then, Mellon's volunteers have built over 600 quality homes in Imizamo Yethu and a second township, Netreg off Cape Town's N2, where the organisation started work in April 2006Every year the charity organises a building blitz where Irish volunteers are asked to raise €4 000 each and travel to Cape Town for a week-long intensive build.As the 350 men and women prepare for the 2006 volunteer blitz in Mfuleni, NMTI's third township, the organisation has already started recruiting what it hopes will be a massive 1 000 volunteers for "the largest ever exodus of Irish people to a charity event overseas" in November 2007