Where we build : Africa and the Middle East

Habitat for Humanity builds in 22 countries in Africa and the Middle East and we have already helped over 35,000 families. In this section, we give you a flavour of each of the countries where we are working in Africa and the Middle East, giving people a hand up out of poverty housing.

Select a country from the map to discover more about the housing situation and how Habitat for Humanity is helping to change lives or use the links below.

Map of Africa and the Middle East

Fact: Africa is the birthplace of Habitat for Humanity. It all started with the construction of the first Habitat house in October 1974, when the founder Millard Fuller, and his wife Linda, began a low-cost housing project in the city of Mbandaka, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).

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Angola
Botswana
Burundi
Cameroon
Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Democratic Republic of Congo
Egypt
Ethiopia
Ghana
Jordan
Kenya
Lebanon
Lesotho
Madagascar
Malawi
Mozambique
Nigeria
Rwanda
Senegal
South Africa
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia

Where we build : Africa and the Middle East

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