Andrew Reynolds Helps Housing project

muskanislam25 · Post by **muskanislam25** » Sat Jul 12, 2025 6:37 am

Andrew Reynolds: Nelson Mandela said that “The way out of the townships was through education” and of course he was right. But what I found in khayelitsha was that it’s entrepreneurship that’s been raising people out of poverty.

Ordinary people with extraordinary determination to better their lives and the lives of their families. People like Vicky, who against all odds has built a little business in khayelitsha

Vicky: We have in our children…they are growing up in shacks. That means their children will be growing up in shacks… if we don’t act soon and they will think that by being black you are supposed to live in shacks. That’s what we are trying to avoid.

Andrew Reynolds: Vicky had got her whole community together phone number data tear down their shacks and replace them with proper, brick-built, solid houses. Her whole street had embarked on an ambitious project to totally replace all of their shacks starting with 20 brand new homes.

Residents moved out of their shacks into makeshift accommodation, often with six members of the family sharing one tiny, temporary room, and then they started the process of tearing down the old shacks and replacing them with brand new buildings.

They poured their own concrete, they dug the foundations by hand and by the time I arrived they’d reached roof level. But they’d hit a problem, promised funding from the Government had not been forthcoming and was likely to be another two years. With winter coming on and no money to put on the roofs the project had come to a grinding halt as the community faced a winter without homes.

Andrew Reynolds: So if you had the funding would you be able to get the roofs on before the winter came in?

Entrepreneurs Bootcamp Attendee:

It’s been great, really enjoyed it.

Entrepreneurs Bootcamp Attendee:

I think the Entrepreneur’s Bootcamp gives everybody a chance to come along and see what they could actually become. Everybody wants to make a little bit more money and everybody wants to be a bit more successful.