Access Building For Humanity!

Volunteers from Access Freight International (PTY) Ltd participated in a ‘day build’ with Habitat for Humanity that Access sponsored.

Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is a non-profit, Christian housing organization that operates as a worldwide ministry seeking to provide simple, decent and affordable housing to communities, in need, throughout the world.

Habitat for humanity embraces the vision of “A world in which every person has a decent place to live”.

Habitat for Humantiy South Africa (HFHSA) has been actively building in South Africa since 1996 and to date over 2200 families have been served across 17 communities. As a community development organisation HFHSA engages with local communities in the greater Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg areas. 

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.

Access helped build a home in the Umgababa Integrated Housing Project on the South Coast of KZN and chose to specifically build for ‘orphans and vulnerable children’. The family that we helped was the Mbambo family. There are 8 people (4 of whom are children) living in a house made with wattle and mud without a toilet or running water.

This experience opened our volunteer’s eyes to the needs of people less fortunate than us. It helped us to be a lot more grateful for what we have.

We hope to take part in another build in the near future and help another family in need.