Irish Build 200 Homes for S. Africa Poor

Sometimes I just have to post something positive to avoid shooting myself in the head. After reading all about the foul, vile, greedy, cruel things Bush and company do, its great to read about people who are sweet, kind and generous.

This made me cry.

Possibly it'll have the same affect on you.

For the first time, Mona Miller has a real roof, solid walls and glass windows. Lights come on at the flick of a switch, water flows from the tap and she has the dignity of a toilet.

Miller will move into her first proper home this weekend thanks to a building blitz by nearly 1,400 Irish volunteers, who completed a mission Friday to construct 200 houses in a week in the depressing, dusty - and hopelessly misnamed - Freedom Park slum.

"It's a solid home, not something that people can drive though [through -ed]," said Miller, shuddering at the memory of the drunk driver who rammed into her shack four years ago, injuring her two young children in this sprawling Cape Town slum.

"I look forward to hearing the rain on the roof because I will no longer have to get up and put buckets underneath the holes. I'm going to close my doors and sleep for a week," she said with a grin, gazing proudly as builders put finishing touches on the mustard-colored house.

In a fucking non-football sense...GO IRISH!

Ha! You thought I couldn't work a variation on the word fuck into this post? Ye of little faith. I'm the master.

Via Japan Herald.