materials, concrete bricks, rubber tyres, beer. The roads are clear, no traffic jams and hardly any vehicles on the road. Turning off the motorway, we head down through the villages, passing churches erected in the same style as a circus tent, an ostrich farm beside the police station and people sitting on the side of the road watching the irregular traffic pass by hoping for a lift. Arriving at our accommodation, we gain the opportunity to unpack before heading out to the project. Anthony enjoyed the benefits of air conditioning whilst we all prepared to meet those we would be helping. Personally, Pete and I had a refreshing cold shower due to Nirmal using up all the hot water, but we soon warmed up due to the 35C temperature, it will be fun working in this kind of heat tomorrow! After a change of clothes, we re-boarded the bus and headed to the Zenzeleni project. The bus trip took us through all the types of life seen in South Africa, passing through authorised developments where the government had allowed people to build and unauthorised developments which lay at the mercy of the government as to whether they would be able to stay there or not. Approaching the Zenzeleni project, the minibus hits the end of the tarmacked road, continuing on into the dirt. The bumps increase as the road carries on and we see the project. It is fair to say that the photographs we had seen before were not