10% of taxable income = a 10% smaller tax bill
Section 18A
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Registered NPC SARS 18A • PBO 930091096 Kya Sand, Johannesburg

SECTION 18A TURNS YOUR TAX INTO HOMES.

UDRS is an approved Public Benefit Organisation. Fund our modular housing programme — replacing shacks in Johannesburg's informal settlements — and deduct it under Section 18A, up to 10% of your taxable income.

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GIVE 10%.
CUT YOUR TAX BILL BY 10%.

Section 18A lets any South African taxpayer deduct bona fide donations to an approved Public Benefit Organisation, up to 10% of taxable income. Give the full ceiling and your tax bill falls by exactly 10%, at any rate. That share was leaving the business either way — this is the version where you choose where it lands.

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Taxable income for the year R10 000 000
Tax at 27%, giving nothing R2 700 000
Section 18A donation — the full 10% R1 000 000
Tax bill after the deduction R2 430 000
What that R1 million actually cost R730 000

Illustration at the 27% company rate. Not tax advice — confirm your own position with your accountant.

The programme you'd be funding

BEYOND THE
SHACK

Corrugated iron was never meant for habitat — it is inhumane for a family to call a sheet of tin home. We are piloting portable, modular housing units in Kya Sand: manufactured off-site, assembled on site in days, and designed from the start to be reproduced by the hundred rather than admired by the one.

  • Portable & modular — assembled on site in days, not months
  • Built for materially less than brick-and-mortar construction
  • Scalable from a single unit to an entire settlement
  • Assembly work goes to people from the settlement it's built in
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A completed UDRS modular home, handed over and ready to live in Residents outside newly completed modular homes A double-storey modular unit built at the UDRS workshop Modular homes going up on site, with plant and crew at work

FOUR WAYS TO COME IN

From a signed CSI programme to a pallet of materials. All four are genuinely useful; the first is the one that changes the trajectory.

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FUND IT UNDER 18A

Capital into the modular housing programme, deducted against taxable income up to the 10% ceiling, with the certificate to match.

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Per unit

SPONSOR A HOME

One named unit for one identified family, documented from delivery to handover.

How it works
Your team

CSR & EMPLOYEE DAYS

Employee volunteer days on distributions and builds, or a drive run through your offices.

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In kind

SUPPLY & LOGISTICS

Building materials, transport, warehousing, or your tradespeople for a week. Goods qualify for 18A too.

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What you get back

ACCOUNTABILITY, IN WRITING

Section 18A tax certificate — we're an approved PBO (930091096)
Written reporting on what your contribution bought and where
Photography and footage you're free to use in your own reporting
Site visits — come and see it, with your board if you like
Your money pays engineers, tutors and artisans, not slogans
A named contact who answers their phone
See who gets paid
UDRS organisers addressing a community gathering in Kya Sand
12Community workshops held
500+Individuals supported
30+Fire relief responses
After the fire, we lost everything. UDRS came with food and blankets—and they kept showing up.
— Resident, Kya Sand

THE
REALITY

For thousands in Kya Sand and surrounding settlements, home means fragile shelters, shared taps, and constant uncertainty. Fires and flooding can erase a family's stability overnight — and the family that rebuilds rebuilds the same thing, because the same thing is all there is.

2.4M South Africans in informal housing
Corrugated-iron shacks lining a dirt street through an informal settlement at dusk

WHAT WE DO

Four programmes, one goal: meet the emergency today, and build toward something permanent. Each is run hand-in-hand with the community.

Families receiving relief parcels

Community Relief

Food, blankets, and essentials to families hit by fire and flooding.

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A mother and her children

Education

Uniforms, stationery, and mentorship so children can stay in school.

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Volunteers preparing hygiene packs

Health & Hygiene

Sanitary products and hygiene packs that protect health and dignity.

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A prefab housing unit

Safe Housing

Advocacy and prefab housing pilots on the road to permanent homes.

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NOT HERE FOR A COMPANY?

Individual giving still runs every distribution we do — and it is deductible too, at your own marginal rate, with the same 18A certificate.

R1 000 A full emergency relief package for one household after a fire R500 A school uniform, stationery and books — one child stays in class for the year R150 One fire blanket, two hot meals and a hygiene packMost common
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SEE IT FOR YOURSELF

Photos, videos, and press from the ground in Kya Sand — the real work behind the numbers.

Carrying salvaged firewood After the fire — Kya Sand Video: relief handover Watch: relief handover Children at the fun day Fun day for the children Donating fire extinguishers Fire-safety support
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THE 27% IS LEAVING EITHER WAY

The only question on the table is whether it disappears into general revenue or turns into a home with a door that locks. Tell us roughly what you're considering — no proposal template, no pitch deck required.

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