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...
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Today is the International Day of Action for Women’s Health. 💗
And for many women caring for orphaned and vulnerable children across Africa, health is deeply connected to the ability to continue showing up for the children who depend on them every day.
At orphanages like Watoto Wa Africa and Lerato Children’s Home, caregivers do far more than supervise daily routines. They provide meals, emotional support, guidance, stability, and care that helps children feel safe and supported. 👩👧🧡
When women have the support and resources to care for themselves and their communities, children feel that impact too.
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For three days, three siblings had nowhere to sleep exceptexcept in a public park.
After relocating from South Africa to Zimbabwe, things quickly became unstable for the family.
Their father returned to South Africa for work, and their mother struggled deeply with the transition and her mental health. According to Lerato Children’s Home, the children experienced emotional and physical abuse before eventually ending up homeless with their mother in Mutare.
With little money, they relied on rides from strangers and sometimes walked long distances just to keep moving. Eventually, “well-wishers” helped connect them to local authorities, and the children were referred to Lerato Children’s Home. 🧡
One of the children later shared how much it meant to finally have “safe accommodation” after experiencing homelessness.
It’s hard to imagine carrying that kind of uncertainty as a child. But stories like this are also a reminder of how much a safe place and consistent care can change someone’s life. ❤️
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“I feel safe, cared for, and encouraged every day.”
That’s how 17-year-old Benson describes life at Watoto Wa Africa Orphanage in Tanzania. 🧡
Before arriving at the orphanage, Benson’s future was uncertain. Today, he’s focused on school, active in daily life at the home, and thinking seriously about the future he wants to build for himself. 📚
His caregivers say he’s grown into someone who participates, studies hard, and encourages others around him. Benson says the stability and supports he receives has helped him believe in himself and what’s possible ahead.
Sometimes the biggest change for a child is finally having a place where they can relax. A place where they know meals will be there, someone will check in on them, and they’re able to just be a kid. ❤️
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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.
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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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