As a nonprofit and charitable organization, we partner with local African charities and NGOs to provide clean water, healthcare, food, education, orphan care, and more. Every project we support helps African children and families build a healthier, more self-sufficient future.
We’ve worked with partners to provide clean water across Africa for many years. Whether it’s for a school, clinic, or farm, these life-changing water projects improve health, reduce hardship, and offer hope for a better future. Thanks to our generous supporters, our work continues in 2026 and beyond.
We currently work with local organizations in these African countries: Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Our programs span across Africa through trusted partnerships with locally based charities and community organizations. Each partner leads projects that provide clean water, food, education, healthcare, and orphan care tailored to their communities' needs. Together, we build healthier, more self-sufficient futures.
At Bread and Water for Africa®, our mission centers on the comprehensive care and support of the most at-risk children, including those who have lost their parents, been abandoned, neglected, or abused. This commitment is not only integral to our organizational...
This week, in recognition of Mother’s Day, May 10, we at Bread and Water for Africa® are paying tribute to our “Mothers of Africa” – Phyllis Keino, Angela Miyanda, Margaret Makambira and our newest, Rosemary Kirutu, who are giving of themselves so selflessly to...
At the Kabwata Orphanage in Lusaka, Zambia, there are 106 orphaned and abandoned children and youth (62 girls and 44 boys) living there who call it home, for many, their first “real” home. With grant support from Bread and Water for Africa®, Kabwata provides...
At Bread and Water for Africa®, we are dedicated to enhancing healthcare in remote villages by providing essential mobile health services. Many of these communities face significant challenges due to their geographical isolation and the pervasive poverty that...
In 2021, Bread and Water for Africa® began a partnership with the Our Aim Foundation (OAF) to construct seven boreholes (deep water wells) in rural villages in Malawi. Today, those wells are providing clean, safe water to approximately 1,500 individuals....
Tuesday, April 7, is the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Day, celebrated annually to draw attention to a specific health topic of concern to people worldwide and to mark the anniversary of WHO's founding in 1948. On World Health Day 2026, WHO aims...
Bread and Water for Africa
Bread and Water for Africa® is a BBB-accredited charity with a Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency. Our mission is simple, provide a brighter future for Africa's Children! Learn more at africanrelief.org
In Tanzania and Zimbabwe, hundreds of children who have experienced abandonment, abuse, neglect, or the loss of their parents are growing up in places designed to give them something many never had before: stability. 🧡
Through Bread and Water for Africa®’s orphan care programs, children at Watoto Wa Africa Orphanage in Tanzania and Lerato Children’s Home in Zimbabwe receive daily meals, safe shelter, education, healthcare, and consistent support from caregivers who show up for them every day. 👧🏾📚🏡
Watoto Wa Africa is led by Josephat and Rosemary Kirutu, while Lerato Children’s Home is led by founder Margaret Makambira and her team — people who have dedicated their lives to creating safe, supportive environments where vulnerable children can grow, heal, and plan for a future.
These programs do more than meet basic needs. They help children regain a sense of safety, routine and confidence. ❤️
Over the next few posts, we’ll share some of the stories behind this work and the children whose lives are being changed through these homes.
👉 Read more about the impact of these programs: africanrelief.org/because-of-you-safe-homes-and-second-chances-in-tanzania-and-zimbabwe/ ... See MoreSee Less
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🧡 We’ve spent the past few days introducing you to women who stepped into something much bigger than themselves. 👩👧
This is the final story in this series — and in many ways, it brings everything together.
Margaret Makambira has seen what happens when a child is left without support.
At Lerato Children’s Home, she’s worked with children carrying real trauma — loss, abuse, being told they didn’t matter. And she’s stayed with them through it.
One boy she supported had already fallen into substance use at 14. After coming into her care, he was able to enroll in a diploma program.
“If I had not been placed in that home, I was going to be dead or roaming the streets with drugs.”
That kind of change doesn’t come from one moment.
It comes from someone continuing to show up — again and again.
That’s what connects every woman we’ve shared this week.
They didn’t just step in once.
They stayed.
And because of that, thousands of children have had someone to rely on — someone who became a mother in every way that matters.
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Rosemary didn’t just help start an orphanage — she stayed.
Since 2000, she’s been part of building Watoto Wa Africa into what it is today — a place where more than 100 children are cared for, not just in big ways, but in the everyday ones.
Meals. Check-ins. Conversations. Structure.
The kind of things that don’t stand out in a single moment, but over time, become everything.
Her work is quiet, steady, and constant — the kind of presence children learn to rely on.
And after years of doing it, that consistency becomes something more than support.
It becomes trust.
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Before she ever opened a children’s home, Phyllis Keino knew what it felt like to go without.
She grew up in poverty in Kenya — in a place where if you didn’t have food, you depended on someone else showing up.
“We were poor people… when we didn’t have food, other people would come and help us.”
That stayed with her.
Years later, she became that person for other children.
Through Lewa Children’s Home, hundreds of children have had a place to sleep, eat, and grow — many for the first time. Her work has stretched far beyond that, reaching communities across multiple countries.
It didn’t come from an idea.
It came from memory.
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At one point, children in Lusaka were being left behind with nowhere to go.
Angela Miyanda saw it happening during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis — and instead of looking away, she stepped in.
She opened what was meant to be a temporary place for children to stay. It didn’t stay temporary.
That space became Kabwata Orphanage.
Over time, it grew to support not just children orphaned by HIV/AIDS, but also street children and others with no one to care for them. More than 500 children have passed through those doors.
Many of them are now adults. Working. Supporting themselves. Building lives.
“The greatest achievement we celebrate is the children who have made it.”
That’s what she measures success by.
👉 Read more about Angela’s story: africanrelief.org/celebrating-the-vital-role-of-african-mothers-from-east-to-southern-africa/ ... See MoreSee Less
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Yesterday, we celebrated Mother’s Day.
But for some children, “mother” doesn’t always look the way people expect.
Over the next few days, we’re introducing our “Mothers of Africa” — women who have stepped into that role not by title, but by the care, consistency, love, and commitment they show every single day.
These aren’t just caregivers.
They’ve become mothers to thousands of children. 👧❤️
Phyllis Keino, Angela Miyanda, Margaret Makambira, and our newest, Rosemary Kirutu, have spent their lives creating something many children never had — a place to stay, food to eat, a chance to go to school, and someone who shows up for them every day.
This week, we’re sharing their stories — not just what they’ve built, but what it’s taken to keep going.
👉 Read more about how their work began: africanrelief.org/celebrating-the-vital-role-of-african-mothers-from-east-to-southern-africa/ 🧡 ... See MoreSee Less
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