Providing a Brighter Future
for Africa's Children

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.

WATER IS LIFE.

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.

Two young African children drink clean water from a community hand pump.

Featured Programs

Health Care Program

Orphan Care Program

Agriculture Program

School Meal Program

Income Generation Program

Where We Work

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 Partners

Group of smiling children in Africa.

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.

Latest News and Impact

Growing Food, Building Independence: honoring rural women on October 15, World Food Day on October 16, and the fight against poverty on October 17.

Empowering Futures: Celebrating Rural Women’s Resilience and Innovation in Agriculture

Oct 13, 2026

Bread and Water for Africa® celebrates rural women, World Food Day and poverty eradication through agricultural training and support in Sierra Leone and Malawi.

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Food sustainability in Sierra Leone infographic showing farmer training, agricultural support, and the stories of Musu Marcus and John Abu.

Food Sustainability in Sierra Leone: Planting Seeds of Hope for a Better Future

Oct 9, 2026

For families across rural Sierra Leone, farming is far more than a livelihood. It is the foundation of daily life — putting food on the table, generating household income, paying school fees, and offering families hope for a more secure future. Yet for many smallholder farmers, producing enough food remains a daily challenge. That is […]

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Bread and Water for Africa 30-year timeline of agriculture and food sustainability programs across sub-Saharan Africa

Empowering Lives: Tackling Food Insecurity through Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

Oct 5, 2026

The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) reported in its 2026 Global Outlook mid-year update in June that food “needs remain highly concerning” around the world as 266 million people across food-crisis countries continue to face acute food insecurity. That number, more than double the number recorded a decade ago according to the WFP, includes […]

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Precious in her classroom in Zimbabwe, supported by Bread and Water for Africa’s education program

The Importance of Education in Africa: Building Brighter Futures One Child at a Time

Sep 22, 2026

Discover why education is vital to Africa’s future and how Bread and Water for Africa® helps children overcome barriers to learning.

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Musu Marcus, John Abu, and farmers training participants in Sierra Leone

Empowering Roots: Transforming Lives Through Farming and Knowledge in Sierra Leone

Sep 21, 2026

At Bread and Water for Africa®, we are passionately committed to agriculture and food self-sufficiency. Each year, we empower smallholder farmers in Sierra Leone and beyond, helping to cultivate hope and sustainability for their families. In 2026, 75 rural women and male youths participated in a week-long farmers’ training program in remote villages in Sierra […]

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Cyrille’s school portrait alongside students in Lolo and Dobiti, Chad.

Where Poverty Closes Doors, Education Opens Them

Sep 14, 2026

For millions of children in Chad, education remains a distant dream rather than a guaranteed right. Poverty, gender inequality, limited educational resources and a shortage of adequately trained teachers prevent far too many young people, especially girls, from entering the classroom and reaching their full potential. Yet, through the partnership of Bread and Water for […]

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Help Save Lives in Africa

Your gift to Bread and Water for Africa® helps provide lasting support to children, families, and communities across Africa. Through programs that expand access to clean water, nutritious food, healthcare, education, and support for orphaned and vulnerable children, your generosity helps meet urgent needs while creating opportunities for a stronger future.

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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

🌱 So much of the

🌱 So much of the work of feeding a family begins with women.

Across the communities we serve in Africa, women are planting crops, tending farms, feeding their families, and earning income from what they grow.

Through our agriculture programs, Bread and Water for Africa® works with local partners to provide women with training, seeds, tools, irrigation, and other resources that can help them grow more and build a more reliable source of food and income.

This International Day of Rural Women, we’re celebrating the women doing this work every day—and helping more of them have the resources to keep growing. 🧡

👉 Learn more: africanrelief.org/empowering-futures-rural-women-resilience-innovation-agriculture/
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We’ve introduced you to Sierra Leone. Now let’s get to know it a little better.
Here are 5 things you may not know about this West African country!
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🌱 We talk a lot a

🌱 We talk a lot about “food self-sustainability.” But what does that actually mean?

Simply put, it means helping people build a reliable source of food that can
continue long after our initial support.

For a smallholder farmer, that might mean learning a better way to grow crops, receiving seeds and tools to get started, and eventually growing enough to feed their family and sell the extra at a local market.

For a children’s home, it might mean starting a farm, installing irrigation, or raising chickens so they can provide more of their own food and spend less buying it elsewhere.

The goal isn’t just one harvest or one meal. It’s helping people build something they can continue growing themselves. 🧡

💬 What part of food self-sustainability would you like to learn more about?
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