Bread and Water for Africa® Executive Director Beth Tessema recently returned from an extended visit to Kenya to meet with Phyllis Keino, our international spokesperson and founder and director of the Lewa Children’s Home, to evaluate its progress and conduct a needs...
Bread and Water for Africa® Supporters Provide Emergency Relief Following Cyclone in Zimbabwe
Last March, a catastrophic cyclone by the name of Cyclone Idai devastated portions of Zimbabwe leaving hundreds dead and many more missing. “In some parts of these regions whole families were swept away by the water that had flooded the rivers or were submerged in mud...
Bread and Water for Africa welcomes our new partner in Sierra Leone, The Rural Youth Development Organization
The Rural Youth Development Organization – Sierra Leone (RYDO-SL) operates the Mokoba Health Center in a rural region where most of the residents of the area are subsistence farmers with an average number of six children who struggle simply to survive on what they can...
Joseph Ekidor – Making His Way in the World with Educational Support
Joseph Ekidor is no longer a child at age 19, but a young adult looking to make his way in the world as he is on the verge of completing his secondary school education. It’s a bright future made possible only through his hard work and determination, the loving home he...
Ann Tiyaa – A Success Story 12 Years in the Making
18-year-old Ann Tiyaa is a Form Four (senior) at Sambut Secondary School in Eldoret, Kenya, who has made great strides in her life. For one thing, she has accomplished something only few children and youth are able to do in Kenya – attend 12 years of school and poised...
Feed the Kids of Kibera
This month, Bread and Water for Africa® executive director Beth Tessema is spending several weeks in East Africa developing new partnerships in order to enable us to provide assistance to more and more Africans, particularly children. In Nairobi, Kenya, Beth toured...
Little Nyarai Finds a Family at the Kabwata Orphanage in Zambia
Little Nyarai was only two years old when she was brought to Bread and Water for Africa® partner in Zambia, the Kabwata Orphange and Transit Centre. She is too young to understand why she is there, but old enough to ask “where’s my mommy?” The sad and tragic fact is...
Planting Season Off to a Good Start in Sierra Leone
It is with great relief that we are pleased to report good news on the agriculture front from Sierra Leone that the 2019 planting season started on time! Bread and Water for Africa® has long supported the agricultural operations of our partner in the country, Faith...
Little Nyarai Finds a Family, Planting Season off to a Good Start, and more!
One Dream… From Banana Plantations to Fish Pond… All for the Orphanage
The proverb may be a cliché, but that does make it untrue to say “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” In Zambia, that’s exactly what Bread and Water for Africa® partner Kabwata Orphanage & Transit...