Zambia · Campus by campus

The boarding house
registry students
can trust.

No agents. No scams. No guesswork. safdwel is a community-verified map of boarding houses near your campus — built by students, confirmed by home owners, trusted by universities. Choose where you study and see only the houses you can actually walk to.

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Houses mapped
Boarding houses located and anchored around the campuses we serve
Live data
Student confirmations
Independent verifications by students on the ground
Live data
Community verified
Properties confirmed by 3 or more independent students
Live data
The problem
"300+ boarding house owners attended a single meeting about student housing in Kitwe. Almost none of their properties appear on any verified registry — and the same is true at every other campus in the country."
safdwel exists to change this.

Built for four stakeholders.
One shared registry.

The same verified data serves students finding housing, home owners reaching students directly, the university protecting its students, and the council maintaining standards.

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For students

Find a house without trusting an agent

See each room's own photos and video tour, live bed spaces counted from the home owner's tenant register, prices, ratings from other students, and exactly how verified every house is — before you spend a single kwacha on transport. No middlemen adding fees the home owner never asked for.

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For the university

A verified housing registry for your students

safdwel gives your student welfare team a live, auditable database of the boarding houses around your campus — who owns them, where they are, how many students have confirmed them, and which ones have been flagged for concerns. Each campus sees its own registry.

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For boarding house owners

Reach students at your campus directly — no agent commissions

List your house yourself in about two minutes: pin it on the map, get your private panel, and add rooms, prices, photos and a video tour. Your listing answers students' questions from your live data, tracks who viewed it, and keeps your tenant register and rent records — while you sleep.

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For the council & authorities

A live database of operating boarding houses

safdwel's registry gives a city council verified location data, owner identification, and occupancy information for the boarding houses operating around its campuses — data that currently exists nowhere in structured, accessible form. The work starts in Kitwe.

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Community-built.
Verification-first.

safdwel works the way census data collection works — students on the ground, structured verification, an audit trail that institutions can trust.

STEP 01

A student stands outside and captures the location

GPS anchors the house to within metres. The student adds the name, house number, and manager — the details that make it identifiable to the next person.

STEP 02

The next student confirms it independently

Standing at the same house, they see the details and a photo. They verify it matches — or flag it if something is wrong. Each confirmation adds to the trust score.

STEP 03

The owner verifies their own listing

Owner Verified means safdwel has actually been in touch with the home owner and verified the house — not a form, a relationship. Students see plainly when a listing hasn't reached that bar yet, so pretending to be a home owner earns nothing.

STEP 04

The registry becomes institutional infrastructure

Verified data feeds university welfare dashboards, council compliance tools, and eventually bank collateral verification — all from the same source of truth.

Built to protect students,
not expose them.

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Verify or flag a house anonymously
When you confirm or flag a property, the owner never learns it was you — your contribution is recorded, your identity stays private. Your details reach a home owner only if you choose to move in with them.
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No agents. No exceptions.
Agents cannot list properties on safdwel. Only verified owners can claim a listing — eliminating the source of most scams and unauthorized fees.
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Every claim has an audit trail
Who said what, when, and how it was verified — every data point on safdwel is traceable. Claims are never silently edited or deleted.
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Students can flag anything suspicious
Wrong location, scam suspected, unauthorized fee — students have a direct reporting channel. Flags go to a human review queue, not into a void.
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The map is live.
Help us fill it in.

Every boarding house you map protects the next student from a scam. Takes less than two minutes.

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