Category Archives: NGO & Community Impact

NGO partnerships and community development projects delivering affordable housing and infrastructure using Hydraform block making technology across Africa.

Empowering the Ngangelizwe Community

Hydraform is using its innovative building technology to improve the lives of the Ngangelizwe township, situated in Mthata, Eastern Cape. This project has provided 141 homes to the destitute and the homeless. Some of these families have lost their primary caregivers and are headed by the older children. The Ngangelizwe 200 project therefore provides these […]

Hydraform Helps Light the way for Future Development

Previous Next Hydraform has recently become involved with an exciting new project when we donated to Aurora Primary School. In Latin, the word “aurora” is associated with the dawn, and we believe that this faculty of education is creating a bright new future for its students. Originally established in Ivory Park in 1999, the non-subsidised independent […]

Building A School

School built with Hydraform interlocking blocks in Grand-Bereby Ivory Coast

Investing in the community that surrounds any significant business operation is nothing more than good sense. Société des Caoutchoucs de Grand-Béréby (SOGB) is engaged in the production of rubber and palm oil in the south-west region of Côte d’Ivoire. The operation is of a significant size, spread out over an area of 34 712ha (16 […]

Resettling A Community

Resettlement housing built with Hydraform interlocking blocks for mining-displaced community

Opencast mining can be hazardous to people living in the vicinity and since the minerals can’t be moved before extraction, the people must be resettled… This is exactly what happened in rural Ghana when the Endeavour Mining Company sought to extract the gold ore located at Nzema. Given the geology of the region, the most […]

Enabling Community Development

Community housing in Ghana built by Savannah Accelerated Development Authority with Hydraform

Hydraform’s relationship with the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority began in early 2012 and sprang from the need for a sustainable housing solution. The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) is an independent agency for coordinating a comprehensive development agenda for the northern savannah ecological zone in Ghana. SADA’s main objective is to promote sustainable development while […]

A Beehive Of Activity

NGO community development project using Hydraform interlocking block construction

Primarily for reasons of sustainability, the Hydraform Building System has proven very popular with NGOs all over the world One such organisation is the Malawi-based Krizevac, which has been active in the country for a decade or more and focuses on empowering poor and underdeveloped communities to lift themselves out of the mire. A key […]

Giving A Community That Feeling Of Permanence

Permanent community buildings in Rogbere Sierra Leone built with Hydraform blocks

The Rogbere project began small but today includes a junior secondary school along with teachers’ accommodation, a training centre, an orphanage and accommodation for volunteers, and it continues to grow a little more with each passing year The project began back in 2004 when a small Irish NGO, Emmaus, purchased 63 acres of land from […]

Constructing A Community

Mining community infrastructure built with Hydraform interlocking block technology

All businesses, but mining operations in particular, are under pressure to contribute to building up the community around their operations… Tendele Coal Mining operates an anthracite mine about 85km north-east of Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Back in 2007 the company decided, without being coerced into doing so, to make a meaningful contribution to […]

Building In A Remote Area

Hydraform building system used for construction in a remote area

A constant challenge when it comes to assisting communities in Africa is remoteness – some villages are simply a long way off the beaten track… A case in point is Gombani Village in Venda, situated in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Set in the mountains close to the Zimbabwe border, the village is so […]

Delivering on Government’s Housing Promises

Government housing project built with Hydraform interlocking blocks

Project Details Delivering on Government’s Housing Promises Building A Socially Responsible Business From The Ground Up. ZOMA Blockyard & Construction Business was established in January 2013 to address the funding needs of Aumazo Inc, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organisation whose mission is to empower girls in rural Cameroon with educational opportunities to attend high school […]

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