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Habitat for Humanity South Africa (HFHSA) has been actively building in South Africa since 1996.

As a community development organisation, HFHSA currently engages with local communities in the greater Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg areas.
HFHSA was founded in 1987. Three years after its founding, violence and unrest in the project areas brought work to a halt. It was only in 1996 that HFHSA began in earnest again. As a recognised Section 21 Non-Profit Organisation, HFHSA is ideally situated to address the severe housing needs of the country. Initially HFHSA worked with partner communities in impoverished areas. This affiliate model has been subsequently replaced with a project model in which each project is uniquely tailored to suit the needs of the homeowner group, the environmental and social conditions of the communities and the available funds.
A unique feature of HFHSA as an organisation is that it partners 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 HFHSA’s ministry.