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...
Earlier this year, one of our newest partners, the Our AIM Foundation (OAF), requested grant funding from Bread and Water for Africa® to assist the organization in the construction of seven boreholes (water wells) in rural villages in Malawi. OAF program manager...
As is the case in the United States, in the past few months, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been seeing an uptick in the numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases. In July, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reported that, according to the...
Dear Bread and Water for Africa® Inc. Family, The passing of Adeline “Addy” Rose Krizek this past weekend has brought messages of grief from not only those who knew her well in her community of Alexandria, Virginia, where she was revered for her selfless service to...
Since 1967, the United National Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) International Literacy Day has taken place on September 8 to remind the public of the importance of being able to read and write as a matter of dignity and human rights, and...
At Bread and Water for Africa®, we don’t just want to give a man (or woman) a bag of rice to eat for a week or two and then go hungry again, we want him to learn to grow it, and how to sell it, in order to build a life of self-sufficiency for himself and his family....