Mushroom growing in sub-Saharan Africa? Who would’ve thought it? Well, the United Nations’ World Food Program for one. In its March 2021, report “Zimbabwe: Mushroom-growing means independence for women farmers” the WFP stated: “Mushroom farming was identified as a...
Give a Person Cassava and Groundnuts and They Eat for Day; Teach Them How to Grow It, and They Eat (and Feed Their Children) For Their Lifetime
It may a be well-known cliché that if you give a person a fish he eats for a day, but teach them how to fish and they eat for their lifetime. However, that doesn’t make it any less true. And the same goes for planting, gardening and farming, especially for hardworking...
Agriculture Programs Supported by Bread and Water for Africa® Teach Men and Women to Become Self-Sufficient Farmers
Surely everyone has heard the oft-quoted proverb: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” At Bread and Water for Africa® we take that maxim a step further through our agriculture programs which allow us to...
Bread and Water for Africa® Supports Food Self-Sufficiency Agricultural Program to Help Ease Hunger Posed by COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa
If something works, such as how for years the Baraka Farm has been providing support to our longtime partner, the Lewa Children’s Home in Eldoret, Kenya (founded by our international spokesperson Phyllis Keino), we strive to replicate it elsewhere in the sub-Saharan...
Agriculture Program in Sierra Leone Provides Staples to Prevent Starvation
As of May 26, there have been 754 confirmed coronavirus cases and 44 deaths due to COVID-19 in Sierra Leone, but the impact of the global pandemic in the country has been far worse than the numbers suggest. Businesses have been forced to close, and as during the...
Tractor and More on the Way to Sierra Leone Thanks to the Royer Family Foundation
The Rural Youth Development Organization of Sierra Leone (RYDO-SL) was established in 1996 “to transform and revitalize the lives of the marginalized and oppressed populations in the communities” of the impoverished country in several ways, including agriculture. Its...
Executive Director Visits Partners in Kenya and Uganda; Seeks Potential Additional Ones
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...
Relief after Cyclone Idai, a visit to our partners, and more!
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!
Poultry Farm in Sierra Leone Provides Chicken Meat to Thousands
Thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® the poultry farm in Sierra Leone operated by our partner there, Faith Healing Development Organization (FHDO), is operating in full swing, just like Old MacDonald’s Farm with “here a cluck, there a cluck,...