1.2 Billion
People globally lack a safe place to call Home.
48.5 Million
Women Households in Africa need a home
1.25 Million
Women families renting indefinitely in Uganda.
Rental trap
Home is where the heart is
Everybody has dreams and they vary from person to person. However, one dream remains common to all- owning a decent, beautiful secure home. After all, who doesn’t want to live in a home with clean running water and sanitation services that sits in a nice neighborhood and has great facilities? However, many people have yet to take advantage of this profound desire
Landlords are forcing you into a rental poverty trap when you keep paying rent without any homeownership plan! This is especially frustrating when you are working hard to steer yourself away from poverty, hunger, and inadequate shelter towards financial freedom.
The thought of owning a home can be daunting, especially when you don’t have the financial strength to fulfill your dream.
At Smart Havens Africa (SHA) we want to see you thrive, we have therefore made Homeownership affordable for you than ever before so you can become financially independent and live a dignified life. Welcome to our official website.
Who we are
We are a business that uplifts
As a social enterprise, Smart Havens Africa is committed to providing homeownership to women and low-income families in Uganda. Why? Because we have ourselves experienced this problem first hand and we understand what powerful impact an adequate shelter has on a family and how greatly it can improve their quality of life.
Thus, since our inception, we have been clear on our Mission to provide an affordable pathway to Homeownership for low-income families and a better future for women in Africa.
What we do, and
What makes us
different?
Smart Havens Africa is a social enterprise constituting a humane business that uplifts. We build communities, not single homes, and ensure families have full legal ownership of the land where their home is built, so they can never be forced to leave. Each community has access to the resources they need to thrive, including water, power, and proximity to career and educational opportunities. And, at SHA, we believe that a safe home is the foundation needed for economic uplift. It deters the evil of rental trap poverty and enables households to save more for themselves, which, in turn, instills an enhanced personal image and growth.
We center attention on providing people like you with the right quality and value at a reasonable amount thus improving your quality of life.
Our Impact
80+
Affordable, Secure Homes Built for Women and Low income families
2,000
Jobs created for Women and Youth both Contractual and Permanent
400
Lives impacted with Secure Affordable Homes to live dignified lives
$3,535
Increase in income for every Household Per Year
4,050
Africa's Rare Trees saved from being cut for Brick firing process
$1,584,000
Values of Assets Transferred to Women and low income families
Our Customers
In the Spotlight
Our Customer spotlight this week is Lilly,She is a teacher with no viable housing option for herself and her five children. For the last seven years, she has lived in a flat within a bad neighborhood. Idlers have dropped into her home to physically and psychologically harm her children. The family lives in constant fear; the children cannot play outside and wait at her friends’ shops to be picked up after school. Her husband works upcountry and cannot see the urgent need for new housing.
Lilly looks to Smart Havens Africa as a solution to finding a safe home for her family. Where other landlords have failed to recognize her family’s need for security and shelter, SHA can help her family achieve their most basic human rights.
Smart Havens Africa aims to get low-income women such as Lilly out of the rental trap by providing them with a secure affordable home to bring up children and the key tools to a financially secure future to allow the whole family to flourish while creating both social and environmental impact
Help Lilly Own a Home