During my visit to Ireland this weekend, I was delighted to come upon an article about The Garden of Hope. I had not heard of it before and was greatly impressed by the people who give up their time and some of their personal possessions, to give something back to society.
In this particular case The Garden of Hope is a charity project in Cape Town. The purpose of the charity is to help people in South Africa, who are living in unacceptable conditions to be moved into more sustainable communities.
People interested in giving up one month of their lives to help build a community should contact the Niall Mellon Township Trust, which is in Dublin. This is the link to their site - http://www.irishtownship.com/htm/about.htm
Diarmuid Gavin has recently returned from helping the charity project and is noted to have said that the experience had a "profound and lasting effect on him".
With the newspapers and media as a whole, supplying us with a daily feed of negative news, it was a joy to read about this project and I am sure that from the seeds of this one, implemented by Niall Mellon, many more excellent, unselfish projects will flourish in time.
AnneMarie
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