SANDA is dedicated to providing quality services, ensuring public accessibility and increasing awareness of issues affecting Deaf people at all levels in South Africa.

SANDA provides a broad continuum of comprehensive social and human development services to all Deaf South Africans at national, provincial and local level in the knowledge that Deaf people are a natural and integral part of South African society, and should have opportunities to contribute their experience, talents and capabilities to national, provincial and local development.

SANDA was founded at an important moment in the history of South Africa, namely, the coming into being of a decade of a democratic dispensation – ten years of post-apartheid government.