Since 1997, Bread and Water for Africa® has been working to provide people living in remote rural villages throughout sub-Saharan Africa with ready access to clean water for drinking, cooking, bathing and washing, and saving them (especially young girls) with the...
Bread and Water for Africa® Hopes to Restore Banana Plantation for Flooded Orphans Home in Uganda
In the summer of 2020, the Kyasira Home of Hope for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVC) located on the shores of Lake Victoria in Entebbe, Uganda, was flooded by heavy rains and the lake’s rising waters leaving 62 children and their caregivers stranded, according...
Bread and Water for Africa® Teams Up with Technologies Appropriées pour le Congo to Provide Clean Water for Thousands of Students and Villagers in the DRC
At the start of this year, the executive director of Technologies Appropriées pour le Congo, Association Sans But Lucrative (TAC Asbl), headquartered in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), reached out to Bread and Water for Africa® with a request for...
Bringing Clean, Safe Water ‘To the Doorstep’ to Hundreds in Rural Zambian Villages
The rural Kalabo District in Zambia is a difficult area to work in as the terrain is mainly deep Kalahari sand resulting in most villages not having basic water supply infrastructure, according to Elisha Ng’onomo, executive director of one of our newest partners,...
Bread and Water for Africa® Working to ‘Accelerate Change’ for Thousands This Year Through Clean Water Projects
“Accelerating Change” is the theme of the United Nations’ World Water Day 2023, held annually on March 22 since 1993 to highlight the importance of fresh, clean water and its WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) goals for people throughout the world. At Bread and...
Rural Zimbabwe Villages are High Priority for Bread and Water for Africa® Water Project
In the Dora Wards 5 and 35 in Mutare District in Manicaland Province in eastern Zimbabwe there are just nine boreholes in a region with 23 villages and where thousands of residents live without easy access to safe drinking water. “From these statistics, it is...
A Borehole for Bakaba: Water for All in Rural Chad Village
The village of Bakaba in rural Chad is not easy to get to notes Kingsley Mbushou, project manager of our partner, Hope Services, headquartered in Cameroon. “It has a difficult road path that’s only easily accessible with particular car models and strong motorbikes,”...
‘Clean Water for All’ is The Goal of Spring Protection Program in Uganda
In rural central and western Uganda, there are more than 200 villages where residents have no choice but to get their water from unprotected springs that are more often than not contaminated by human and livestock waste where bacteria, viruses and parasites breed. In...
Bread and Water for Africa® Provided Clean Water for 150,000+ Individuals This Year
Water is the essence of life, clean water that is. But for millions living in rural, remote villages in sub-Saharan African countries having access to safe water for drinking, cooking, bathing and washing is the exception, not the rule, as most must risk their lives...
Providing Clean Water in Ugandan Villages, One Spring at a Time
In the Mityana, Luwero, Kiboga, Nakaseke, Nakasongola, Mubenede, and other districts in Uganda, a year ago there was an estimated 3,000 people living in 15 villages who had no source of clean, safe water for all their daily needs, reported David Ssagala, manager of...
In Zimbabwe’s Time of Greatest Need, Bread and Water for Africa® is There for the Children of Lerato
For more than 20 years, the primary mission Bread and Water for Africa® has been to find loving homes for orphaned, abandoned and destitute children throughout the continent, starting with the Lewa Children’s Home in Kenya, Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in...