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Ngangelizwe is a small township in the Eastern Cape province, in a town called Mthatha. [...]
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Project Details Helping To Build Ivorian Health Systems Hospital Saint Jean-Baptist was inaugurated earlier this [...]
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Project Details When Education & Conservation Meet National Housing Corporation (NHC) Tanzania is responsible for [...]
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Project Details Delivering on Government’s Housing Promises Building A Socially Responsible Business From The Ground [...]
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For hundreds of years there has been little revolution in the construction industry in terms [...]
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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 […]
As has happened elsewhere in Africa, the housing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo has assumed epidemic proportions. Hydraform is once again on the front line in the fight against poverty, hunger and joblessness through an association with the volunteer corps of the Confédération Syndicale du Congo (CVC), a trade union confederation, and the […]
National Housing Corporation (NHC) Tanzania is responsible for affordable quality housing delivery in that country. Since its formation, NHC has embarked on more than 5 000 units of affordable housing projects all over the country. The reference project in Dar es Salaam involved the construction of 201 houses using the Hydraform Building System. Analysis after […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Giba Business Park, a unique development set in the Giba Valley just outside Westmead in KwaZulu-Natal, has developed its facilities for a variety of its successful businesses using innovative Hydraformblock making technology. The Hydraform technology has since proved to be the ideal solution for Giba, not only from a cost perspective, but more importantly in […]
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 […]
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