Who You Help
From infants to mothers, fishermen to women farmers. These are just some of the stories of the individuals throughout Africa who’s lives have changed with the support of Bread and Water for Africa
World Water Day 2024: ‘Water for Peace’ and Our Efforts in Ethiopia to Repair Wells Amidst Drought and Conflict
This year, the theme for the United Nations’ World Water Day campaign is “Water for Peace,” which focuses on the critical role water plays in the stability and prosperity of the world. As the UN notes, “When water is scarce or polluted, or when people have unequal or...
Nearly 85 percent of Rural Schools in the DRC Lack Safe Drinking Water: Bread and Water for Africa® is Working to Change That for Hundreds of Students
Following a successful pilot project to provide clean water to students in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who had been drinking contaminated water from nearby Lake Tumba in 2023, we are looking forward to continuing our new partnership this year with...
Bread and Water for Africa® Clean Water Projects: A Look Back at 2023, A Look Ahead into 2024
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...
Mushroom Cultivation: A New Hope for Sierra Leone
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...
WASH Program Calls For ‘Hygiene for All’ at Konzere Primary School in Malawi
At the Konzere Primary School for Girls in the Chikwawa District of Malawi, the 789 girls who are enrolled there currently have no choice but to use a toilet facility that is described as “a miserable, unhygienic facility that brings fear and danger among them.” Alex...
Bread and Water for Africa® Enables Kibera School Students to Pursue Their Dreams
Right now, in Kenya, there are 42 primary school graduates, including the Seed School, located in the heart of the Nairobi slum of Kibera, who want nothing more than to continue their education onto secondary school where upon graduation they will realize their dreams...
Farmers Training Program Participant in Sierra Leone ‘Can’t Wait for the Next Farming Season’
Sierra Leone is among the poorest nations in the world; a country where more than half of the population suffers from malnutrition and more than 500,000 children are at immediate risk of death due to severe malnutrition and the accompanying illnesses caused by a lack...
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®: A Look Ahead to Continuing to Save Lives in 2024
It’s said that an organization’s mission is defined by its budget priorities, and at Bread and Water for Africa® our priority is to save lives. That may sound like hyperbole, but it’s a literal statement of fact. For 2024, our largest single budget item – 23 percent...
Over 188,000 Lives Impacted by Bread and Water for Africa® in 2023
As we step into 2024, Bread and Water for Africa® is celebrating a multitude of mission successes throughout the past year. See all that we were able to achieve thanks to the generosity of our supporters and why we have such gratitude and a vibrant hope for the...
Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® Ensure a Merry Christmas for Orphans in Tanzania, Zambia and Elsewhere This Holiday Season
On Christmas Day this year, dozens of children living at the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre opened their presents from “Santa” as do millions in the U.S. and around the world. But in their case, it’s not their parents who place the presents under the tree, but a...
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...