Colin Farrell hasn't been confirmed yet, but developer Sean Dunne is definitely going, as is garden designer Diarmuid Gavin, RTÉ's sports presenter Des Cahill and Sharon Corr's barrister husband Gavin Bonner.

The organisers of developer Niall Mellon's fifth Annual Township Trust Building Blitz to South Africa weren't lying when they said that the volunteers will come from a range of backgrounds and professions.

Taking place on November 2nd, they will have a target to build 200 houses, a community centre and a "Garden of Hope in Freedom Park", a poor township in Cape Town, South Africa created during Apartheid with a population of over 490 families. As well as Dunne, Gavin et al, around 1,199 men and 151 women will take part to raise a minimum of €4,000 in order to make the trip.

When the homes are built , the families will be moved out of one-room shacks to two and three-bedroom homes with a kitchen and bathroom, running water, electricity and sanitation. Though the South African government has been actively involved in building some 2.1 million homes since the fall of Apartheid in 1994, 2.4 million families are still in desperate need of housing. The scope of the building blitzes has been building steadily since they started in 2002 when 150 volunteers built 25 houses in the Imizamo Yethu township. In the last five years, the trust has built over 1,500 houses in four townships in South Africa.