Habitat for Humanity - South Africa

The Habitat Vision:
“A world in which every person has a decent place to live”

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Habitat for Humanity South Africa (HFHSA) is a non-profit, Christian housing organization that falls under the umbrella of Habitat for Humanity International – a worldwide ministry seeking to provide simple, decent and affordable housing to communities throughout the world. HFHSA has been actively building in South Africa since 1996 and to date over 2000 houses have been constructed across 3 Regions (Western Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal) and bringing together people across racial, economic, cultural and social boundaries in a common journey of hope. A unique feature of HFHSA as an organisation is that it is invited to partner with community groups or other organisations to help address an identified housing need. Once this partnership has been formalised a lengthy process of education and training begins. This is crucial to the development of the homeowner group and is an important focus area of Habitat for Humanity South Africa's ministry. Only once the education phase is successfully completed can the construction phase begin. Although this is the most well known aspect of HFHSA it must be remembered that HFHSA is not a construction company and our building work is only a continuation of the community development that we seek to facilitate. The building schedule is therefore very different from traditional construction companies and depends largely on the relationships and strength of commitment with the individual homeowner groups. Habitat for Humanity South Africa’s building programme is influenced by three main areas – homeowner readiness, funding and volunteer availability. It is hoped that volunteer groups can appreciate the tricky balance that this poses and the implications that this has on volunteer building opportunities.
We welcome all people to join us as we build simple, decent, affordable houses in partnership with those who lack adequate shelter.

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