We don’t always realize how fortunate we are that our mothers had access to prenatal services and a hospital to deliver us in. In Sierra Leone, most women give birth alone in their homes with no midwife or medical aid, putting them at serious risk for complications....
Kobby was abandoned when she was only 7 years old and the first home she can remember was the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret. “When I came to Lewa Children’s Home, I felt good,” Kobby said. “I attended KipKeino Nursery School and I have continued...
You may have heard that we plan to install solar panels at Lewa Children’s Home in Eldoret, Kenya. But you may be asking yourself, “why solar power?” The answer is simple. We want to provide a brighter future for African children, and solar power does precisely that...
Africa is “going green” and we are doing our part to take advantage of the tremendous amount of solar power potential available throughout the continent. As reported recently by Africa.com, Africa has an immense energy crisis. With a population of close to 1 billion,...
Alisa’s tale is a story of tragedy and hope. The little 6-year-old had gone through a lot in her young life – being physically and emotionally abused and becoming infected with HIV. She understandably is emotionally disturbed and has difficulty concentrating.But all...
Take a look our collection of photos from the Kabwata Orphanage, and Zambia, Africa.
“One day I will be Dr. Daniel Kabweza,” says Daniel, who thanks to our supporters was able to not just attend school, but excel. He is now set to graduate and looks forward to going to university to study medicine. Daniel is one of 58 primary and high school students...
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/liSZjAXTGXg" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe> Thousands of African children will be able to greet the new year full of hope, thanks to...
Below is a letter from our spokesperson, Phyllis Keino R.N. We hope you find her words to be as inspiring and hopeful as we did. Dear Friends, On the eve of a brand new year full of hope for thousands of Africans whose lives you made better in 2017, I wish to take...
We work with amazing partners in Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Zambia to provide loving homes for orphaned and abandoned children. At these orphanages, children find a loving, caring home where they truly become family. These children receive nutritious food and the healthcare...
This past June, we organized our very first 5K run to fundraise for a water well in Kombolcha, Ethiopia. We are happy to announce that the water well, after months of geological surveys and site adjustments, is finished! Ethiopia was gripped in a devastating drought...
Phyllis Keino, our international spokesperson and founder and director of the Lewa Children’s Home in Kenya, is the mother to more than 235 orphans – including one little girl named Sheba who is almost 10 years old. Sheba was born with physical deformities of her...
While the AIDS epidemic may have fallen off the front pages in the United States, it remains an urgent and critical problem around the world – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa – causing millions of children to lose one or both of their parents at a very young age,...
Thousands of children living in rural Kenya are considered fortunate to be able to attend school. But many of them live miles from their school, and of course, there being no school buses to carry them back and forth, some walk 10 miles round trip, or even more....
Earlier this year, we ran pipes from a clean water source about two miles away from the Kebeneti SDA Dispensary in Kericho, Kenya so it would no longer have to rely on rainwater collected in storage tanks and now have access to all the water they need for patients,...
In 2009, documentary filmmaker Christopher Cannucciari visited our program partner Lewa Children's Home in Eldoret, Kenya and made a fantastic mini-documentary. He did a wonderful job capturing the life-changing impact that Phyllis Keino and Lewa have on these...
The Kebeneti SDA Dispensary in Kericho, Kenya has been providing much-needed healthcare services to the people living in this underserved area of rural Kenya since 1966. But until recently, the doctors and staff managed to get by without a reliable supply of fresh...
Life is hard for the nomadic people struggling to survive in the arid Afar region of Ethiopia. For generations, they have managed to be able to keep themselves and their cattle alive in the drought-prone region. But this year’s severe drought is the worst these people...
Over the past few weeks, communities across the globe have been faced with challenge after challenge! Weather emergencies here in the United States and Sierra Leone have hurt so many that live in the path of these destructive storms. Once again, from all of us at...
The Disaster Once again, from all of us at Bread and Water for Africa®, our hearts go out to the people of Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone has had a history of natural disasters and violence. In the 1990s they suffered through a horrific civil war, then in 2014 the...
Devastating flooding and mudslides have hit Sierra Leone washing away entire communities on the outskirts of Freetown. Bread and Water for Africa® is responding to this emergency. Days of torrential rain have created terrifying mudslides in northern Sierra Leone,...
Any child living anywhere in the world is destined for a life of poverty without an education. Nowhere is that more true than in sub-Saharan Africa which in no way could be described as “a land of opportunity” for those who can’t read or write, add or subtract of have...
Bread and Water for Africa® is proud to announce that the construction of the Dr. Kenneth Gerdes primary school in Cameroon is completed and its doors have just opened to students eager to begin a brand new school year in a brand new school building. Last year,...
Every year on the fourth Thursday of November millions of Americans across the United States gather with their families and friends for a huge turkey dinner with all the trimmings and giving thanks for all the blessings they have received in life. In sub-Saharan...
A recent report in the Concord Times of Sierra Leone confirms what we already knew here at Bread and Water for Africa® -- that cassava, along with maize, has been identified “as two of the main pillars of West Africa’s food security that could form the backbone for a...
The proverb may be a cliché, but that does make it untrue to say “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” In Zambia, that’s exactly what Bread and Water for Africa® partner Kabwata Orphanage & Transit...
In the city of Douala, Cameroon today there was a little boy born. We’ll call him Samuel. He is fighting for his life, as is his 14-year-old mother. Why? His mother, we’ll call her Sarah, has no job. No husband. No family to support her. She struggles just to get...
In Cameroon, there is a shocking dearth of clinics and health care facilities for the country’s most vulnerable – impoverished infants, children and new mothers, particularly girls under 15 years old. It’s a dearth that leads to death. For more 20 years, Hope Services...
Hope Services in Yaounde, Cameroon was founded in 1994 with a mission to provide economically disadvantaged children, women and men with affordable health care services, and free treatment for those with no ability whatsoever to pay, to hundreds of thousands of...
In Waterloo, Sierra Leone life has changed dramatically for the better in the past year. Thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, children who had spent their days carrying water from possible contaminated sources are free from that drudgery and are...
Eldoret, Kenya, pop. 300,000, is the fastest growing city in Kenya, the second largest urban center in Midwestern Kenya and the fifth largest urban center in all of Kenya. It is a sister city to Indianapolis, IN, Ithaca, NY, Minneapolis, MN, and Portsmouth, VA. It is...
At Bread and Water for Africa® among our most generous and loyal partners is the Medical Equipment Recovery of Clean Inventory (MERCI) program operated by the University of Virginia. Through this partnership, we are able to ship millions of dollars’ worth of medical...
Salim’s story is one that begins with sadness and woe, but ends with happiness and joy. It starts when he was only four months old when his father took him to a hospital in Kenya where Salim was treated for malnourishment and pneumonia and where a defect was found in...
Right now in Sierra Leone, one in eight women risk dying during pregnancy or childbirth – one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Less than half of the infant deliveries in the country are attended by a skilled birth attendant and less than one in...
It’s springtime, and young boys and girls will soon be taking to the diamond with their gloves, balls and bats to play what is arguably the most American of sports – baseball. But these kids aren’t in Cleveland, Chicago or Cincinnati. They live in Eldoret, Kenya. Most...
Helping provide thousands of African children with an education is among the most programs of Bread and Water for Africa®. To do that requires a place that is actually conducive to learning. This year, Bread and Water for Africa® is working with our partner in...
Bread and Water for Africa® supports programs in countries such as Cameroon providing all types of assistance to people from the youngest of infants to the most senior of citizens. But, first and foremost, regardless of age, we cannot let them go hungry. During the...
Clean and safe water is such a scarce resource for so many, including in Sierra Leone. Mothers, children, the sick, and indeed entire communities suffer from inadequate and unhealthy water in far too many communities of Sierra Leone. That’s why this month, with our...
For a student to excel in any subject, they first must master the skill of reading – which, of course, requires books, lots and lots of books. That is why this month Bread and Water for Africa® is shipping a 40-foot container full of books (estimated at 22,000) to...
We at Bread and Water for Africa® are thankful that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa appears to waning. We are hopeful that remains the case. But, we also are saddened by the deaths of more than 9,000 children, women and men in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, who...
It may be a cliché, but there’s no denying its truth – time flies. It’s hard to believe all that Bread and Water for Africa® has been able to accomplish in the past 18 years (since our inception in 1997) with our partner organizations in numerous countries throughout...
While Ebola is the most immediate health concern in Sierra Leone, that does not mean that other equally life-threatening illnesses have vanished, and our partner there, Christian Health Association of Sierra Leone (CHASL), continues on its mission to meet basic health...
While many Americans may be thinking that the Ebola crisis in West Africa is over as it’s not dominating the national news as it was last fall, that is not the case – far from it. The reality is the deadly virus is still taking the lives of many children, women and...
Local Partner: Christian Health Association of Sierra Leone Program Director: Walter Carew Areas Served: Communities located in all districts of Sierra Leone, with a total population of more than five million people. Program Goals: Christian Health Association of...
Rev. Frances Mambu, founder and executive director of our partner in Sierra Leone, Faith Healing Development Organization (FHDO), is worried about the future of his country which is continuing to experience the ravishes of the Ebola outbreak. “I’m a bit discouraged...
Please help ensure our important programs continue into the new year. Make your 2014 year-end tax-deductible gift by December 31st!
Together We Helped Make a New Life for Hundreds of Orphaned and Abandoned Children During Our 2014 Fiscal Year. 107 orphaned and abandoned children lived in the Lewa Children’s Home where they received food, healthcare, an education, and a loving place to call home....
Bread and Water for Africa® has known for years of the determination and dedication of Angela Miyanda and our partner organization that she founded in Zambia – the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Center, which serves orphans, women and other disadvantaged people. That...
Update 11/19/2014 In Liberia, the Ebola outbreak there peaked in September, and by early this month signs of normalcy are returning to the capital of Monrovia as the rate of new Ebola infections are decreasing. Sadly, that is not the case in Sierra Leone where our...
For more than 100 years, the United Methodist Church Development (UMCDO) Office in Sierra Leone has been working with the government there to establish schools and health centers in the country. While the relationship between Bread and Water for Africa® and the UMCDO...
“It is only the grace of God that is keeping us.” Alexandria, VA, Sept. 19, 2014 – According to the CDC, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has taken the lives of 2,630 people in recent months, including 562 in Sierra Leone alone, and fear grows as the death toll...
Education is also a key step to sustaining democracies, improving health, increasing per capita income, and conserving environmental resources. Recognizing the importance of basic education, Bread and Water for Africa® supports our partners’ efforts in Kenya,...
On Dec. 5, 2013, Africa, and the world, lost one of its most venerated leaders – Nelson Mandela, who passed away following a long illness. Today, July 18, would have been his 96th birthday and we here at Bread and Water for Africa® hope you will join us in honoring...
In Cameroon, a few hundred dollars can make a huge difference in building a future for a needy family. Bread and Water for Africa® through its partner in Cameroon, Hope Services, began a pilot micro-loan program providing small loans – and that’s exactly what they...
The Baraka Farm, part of the Lewa Children’s Home in Eldoret, Kenya, is seeing its “roots” spread beyond Eldoret. The Practical Dairy Training Center at the Baraka Farm , which started just two years ago as an outreach program designed to help other local farmers in...
Bread and Water for Africa® has spent weeks accepting, sorting, and preparing for shipping millions of dollars worth of medical supplies – all headed for needy communities in Africa. More than $1 million worth of supplies will be shipped to Sierra Leone, where it will...
Water is life. It can sometimes be easy for us to take this precious resource for granted thanks to its ready availability here in the United States, but access to water is a daily concern and threat in many regions of Africa. In 2009, Kenya experienced its worst...
Local Partner: Haramaya Health Center/Hiwot Fana Specialized University Hospital Local Partner Director: Professor Augustin Sesay Area Served: Eastern Ethiopia Program Goal: To provide an exceptional education and educational opportunities to Kenyan children. Program...
Join Our Monthly Giving Program Change the future for African children by becoming a Partner for Africa’s Future and joining our monthly giving program. It doesn’t take much to make a difference. With over 900 children in the children's homes and schools that we...
Our partners in Zambia at the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre (KOTC) have provided holistic care including nutrition, education, and healthcare for hundreds of children over the years. But what sets them apart is the work captured by the second part of their name...
Agriculture comprises about 78% of Sierra Leone’s economy, employing two-thirds of the labor force. Most Sierra Leoneans rely on what they harvest for subsistence and to sell for a modest income. Through the support of Bread and Water for Africa®, Faith Healing...
Thanks to your support, since 2006 the Faith Healing Development Organization (FHDO) in Sierra Lene constructed and maintained schools, that serve a combined total of more than 724 students annually. The need in Sierra Leone is great. Areas ravaged by civil war and...
When 15 year-old school girl Lahai was impregnated by a young boy, she was disowned by her parents and shunned by friends. Left to survive the streets with no food, money or shelter, Lahai turned to El-Shaddai clinic, one of the clinics run by Faith Healing...
2013 is a special year for our volunteer spokesperson, Phyllis Keino, and the oasis of hope she has worked so hard to build – the new Lewa Children’s Home. This year marks Lewa’s 10th anniversary and a celebration of their continued efforts to save and transform the...
Since the civil war ended in 2002, Sierra Leoneans have been engaged with the reconstruction of its country’s government, infrastructure, and hope. Local organizations like Faith Healing Development Organization and people like Reverend Francis Mambu have been crucial...
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Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. - Nelson Mandela On Thursday, December 5th, Nelson Mandela passed away at the age of 95 from a lung infection – remnant, many say, from his bouts of tuberculosis during his 27 year imprisonment for anti-Apartheid...
Toss aside the usual notions of baseball being an all-American past time, - because Chicago White Sox pro-scout, Mr. John Tumminia, is taking his baseball clinic to our partners at the Kipkeino Primary School…in Kenya! A nonprofit organization founded by Mr. John...
Bread and Water for Africa® is proud to announce the completion of Phase I of its bakery project in Bangolan, Cameroon. The bakery is the second initiative in which we have partnered with Hope Services of Cameroon. This community-based initiative will allow 100 AIDS...
Bread and Water for Africa® has been working in Cameroon since 2009, partnering with Hope Services Maternity and Clinic Association in Yaoundé, the capital. Hope Services’ clinic provides services for pregnant women, lactating mothers, pediatric care and general...
In sub-Saharan Africa, a woman’s risk of death during childbirth is 1 in 30, compared to 1 in 5,600 in the developed world1 . For many mothers, fear comes along with joy during pregnancy and birth. It is a fear women feel not only for themselves, but also for their...
Time to update your address books!Our new address, effective immediately is: Bread and Water for Africa®8301 Richmond Highway, Suite 300Alexandria, VA 22309
This March 22nd marks the United Nation’s World Water Day – a day to recognize the huge role that this resource plays in our life and how many people still lack access to clean potable water sources. This year has been deemed the “International Year of Water...
Friday, March 8th is International Women’s Day. Read a personal message from our Executive Director, Beth Tessema, to find out who inspires us and why this day is so important to Bread and Water for Africa. "On this day, we can celebrate women’s achievements and the...
Bread and Water for Africa® wants to take this opportunity, on International Volunteer Day 2012, to say a huge and heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone – volunteer board members, staff and our African partners – who have contributed so much to making volunteering and...
Every day, HIV/AIDS claims another life, widows another woman, and orphans another child in the country of Cameroon. This leaves children helpless and alone to face the unthinkable dangers of street life, and leaves widows with no source of income to provide...
The challenges in Africa that we face together are not small. But our achievements are not small either. This November, we are sharing our thankfulness. We have so much to be thankful for. Most importantly we are thankful for our supporters. Click to see what else we...
Watch how one woman's vision has improved the lives of and the future for so many children in Eldoret, Kenya. Phyllis Keino's unwavering dedication to the orphaned and abandoned children of Kenya has resulted in the creation of the The Lewa Children's Home for...
{loadposition tour2012sm} {loadposition tour2012} On August 27th, our tour departed from Nairobi, Kenya for our first stop at the Treetops Hotel in the Aberdares Highland range where we were serenaded by a herd of 38 elephants at the water hole outside of our hotel...
The orphaned and abandoned children of Lewa Children's Home realize the importance of education. Kipkeino Primary School has long been supported by Bread and Water for Africa® and since it’s construction, it has earned a reputation for quality education, upstanding...
A staggering 97% of those living with HIV/AIDS reside in low and middle income countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (aids.gov). In Zambia, 13.5% of adults are living with HIV/AIDS, the 6th highest rate of adults living with HIV/AIDS in the world...
Sustainability. It’s the key to growth and stability in Africa. It ensures that African people will remain empowered with tools and resources to thrive in their communities and to build a better tomorrow for their children. Since 1989, the Baraka Farm has been an...
When Jos Creemers arrived to work at Baraka Farm from the Netherlands in 1993, the agricultural sector of Eldoret, Kenya was almost in ruins. Jos has transformed the Farm by focusing on projects that ensure sustainability. With his help, the Baraka Farm has been...
This past weekend, Phyllis was awarded the Jury Chairman’s Award for Philanthropic Excellence by the East Africa Association of Grantmakers (EAAG) during the 2012 East Africa Philanthropy Awards in Entebbe Uganda! This past weekend, Phyllis was awarded the Jury...
World Environment Day reminds us that out of 7 billion people on earth, only 5 billion have access to clean water and sanitation. It reminds us that one in four people in Sub-Saharan Africa will suffer from malnourishment. World Environment Day reminds us that without...
You may remember that in 2010, Bread and Water for Africa® and its supporters funded the construction of the Early Childhood Learning Center in Zambia. The learning center was intended to serve as a school for the benefit of children in the Kaweza District (a remote...
Imagine starting your morning as usual and then hearing the nearby faint cry of an infant. You look around. You see no family, no passerby to speak of. Just some nearby bushes and shrubbery. On investigating you find a small child wrapped in a mere cloth. Left to die....
If a child experiences malnutrition in their early childhood, it is impossible to compensate for the losses in their growth and health. Malnutrition means not only an increased vulnerability to diseases, stunted growth, and a weakened learning ability, but it also...
Send our Super Moms a Mother's Day Card! Mother’s Day isn’t just a day to celebrate our moms. It’s a day to celebrate our supermoms. You know who they are. Supermoms are the fearless heroes whose dedication and hard work has helped families across the world avoid...
Today, there are over 14 million orphaned children in Africa, many of these children having lost parents to the horrors of AIDS. In response to this crisis, Bread and Water for Africa® has been partnering with the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre (link to...
Many years ago, a woman named Ballu came to Mamie after hearing of the high quality care provided by the clinics. Ballu was facing severe pregnancy complications that could have proved fatal, but thanks to Mamie and her nurses Ballu delivered a healthy baby girl....
This Sunday, April 22nd, the world will come together in celebration of Earth - the planet every one of us so fondly calls ‘home’. Please join us in celebrating this year’s Earth Day by doing your part to make sure that our planet stays clean and beautiful for the...
...but not Everyone Celebrated This year's World Health Day – the annual celebration commemorates the anniversary of the WHO’s formation in 1948 – held special significance at Bread and Water for Africa®. It called us to action to eradicate one of the most neglected...
Thousands of children die every year from water-borne illnesses that are easily preventable. Where there is unsafe water, there are diseases. Where there is clean water and sanitation - there is health; there is life. Particularly in the rural communities of Sierra...
Access to clean running water is something many of us take for granted. In Africa, the stories are heartbreaking. Without clean water, people are forced to share watering holes with animals, allowing communities to easily contract waterborne diseases. In addition to...
Buy a Gift, Change a Life... Food, doctor’s visits, clean water, training…give the gifts that change lives in Africa.
Social Justice is the way in which human rights are manifested in the everyday lives of people at every level of society. The World Day of Justice was created in recognition of the need to promote all efforts toward reducing poverty, exclusion, and unemployment...