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volunteer in 2022 COVID-19 BUILDING BLITZ PROJECT AT WESBANK NO.1 PRIMARY SCHOOL HANDOVER
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CANCELLATION OF 2021 MELLON EDUCATE BUILDING BLITZ
Once again, we find ourselves in the very sad position of having to cancel our 2021 Building Blitz.
Message from Niall Mellon

While the impact of Covid-19 has no borders rich or poor, those living in the developing world will suffer the most. We must extend our immediate support to them, at a time when hunger, fear, illness and uncertainty about the future has never been more real.”

Niall Mellon, Mellon Educate Founder

About Mellon Educate

Founded in 2002, Mellon Educate has provided 175,000 Africans with new homes.
Our new mission is to provide better standards of education to 100,000 children in Africa.

Every year, Mellon Educate organises their now renowned “building blitz” trip to Africa for volunteers from all over the world to travel and lend a helping hand building better infrastructure in poor African communities.

In conjunction with the South African government, we’ve housed 175,000 local people in high grade permanent homes, replacing dilapidated shack living conditions. Since 2013, Mellon Educate has set about improving access to better standards of education in African townships.

To date, the charity has built/renovated 32 schools, providing over 50,000 young children with a better chance at life. We are building towards educational programmes throughout Africa that will benefit over 100,000 primary school kids.

FitBlitz 2021

Walk / Run / Wheel 100km with us during the month of May and help equip a child in Africa with an essential tool for life; Education.
Are you up for the challenge?

Join the FitBlitz
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LEARNER LIVES IMPROVED

Volunteer in 2022

One week of the Mellon Educate ‘Building Blitz’ will change your life.
More importantly, it will change the lives of thousands of impoverished children who desperately need your help.

Volunteer in 2022

  • “I see tremendous strength across our Mellon Covid 19 Team, to just do what needs to be done, without any thought of personal impact. When we distribute the parcels, I see a frighteningly endless need for food, desperate hunger on the faces of so many we help.  I feel gratitude for the amazing support we have from our teams in Ireland and the UK, and for our incredible volunteers….I think of Niall, his vision and leadership and the legacy of 18 years supporting people in the poorest communities…I feel great pride!”

    Bernadette Smyth, Strategic Partnerships

  • Africa gets into your blood and calls you back year after year. Little did I think that when I signed up that it would become such a huge part of my life and that it would be on a building site in South Africa that I would meet my husband!

    Tracey Weldon

  • I became involved after seeing Niall on the Late Late Show. I can honestly say that it has changed my life. I have been exposed to the reality of poverty up close and this has stopped me taking anything for granted and spoiling my children too much. 

    Sandy Dunne

WESBANK NO.1 PRIMARY SCHOOL HANDOVER

Mellon Educate have now completed our adapted Cover-19 Building Blitz project at Wesbank No.1 Primary School! It is a great success story and an example of us all working together even in these challenging times… read more.

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