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...
Together We Give – so they can Eat, Grow and Study While in sub-Saharan African countries there are millions of children going hungry every day, the situation is especially dire in Kibera, the largest slum on the continent on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya where...
During the decades that Bread and Water for Africa® has been supporting children’s homes in sub-Saharan Africa countries including Kenya, Sierra Leone, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, our supporters who make it all possible are not only helping to provide for their most...
Agriculture, notes the World Bank, already Africa’s largest employer, provides the most immediate means of stimulating economic growth and employment for young people, but significant challenges remain. “To realize this potential, farming must shift rapidly from its...
According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Bank in 2014, women in sub-Saharan Africa “produce up to 80 percent of foodstuffs for household consumption and sale in local markets.” Today, not much has changed in the subsequent...