Any school needs classrooms, a library, and a laboratory. It also needs a kitchen to prepare the food for hungry students, as well as a place for them to gather to sit and enjoy their meal break in between their classwork. Such as the Kebeneti Secondary School in...
For one brief, heartbreaking period in their young lives all that the three brothers Wilson, Samuel and Joseph had was themselves after unbelievably being abandoned by their mother. And it was on a dark, rainy evening in Kenya when a neighbor heard their desperate...
In Zambia, Angela Miyanda takes in the country’s most vulnerable children and provides them with a loving home. But equally important is the fact that in doing so, she also prepares them for the day they will walk out when they must be ready to live on their own –...
While many organizations that help orphans in Africa work to address critical issues like clean water, healthcare, poverty, and education, millions of children remain highly vulnerable. When there is so much to do, it can seem like a long-enduring uphill battle. We...
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...
In Zambia, fresh, clean water is a precious commodity. And not only is ensuring there is enough safe water for people to drink and for domestic and hygiene purposes difficult enough, it is even harder to create available water resources to adequately irrigate crops....
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...