Through this amazing project so much had been achieved at the informal settlement of Monwabisi Park – a Montessori kindergarten, soup kitchen, community, health and youth centres, a backpacker hostel and Makazi’s Guesthouse – before a fire in December 2008 destroyed everything. The community and organisers are working to rebuild it all – and the 26 other homes burnt down – as an eco-village of buildings made from sandbags.
