Today, January 24, is the United Nations’ International Day of Education which was adopted in December 2018 to celebrate the role of education for bringing global peace and sustainable development. At Bread and Water for Africa®, we recognize and appreciate today’s...
Give a Person Cassava and Groundnuts and They Eat for Day; Teach Them How to Grow It, and They Eat (and Feed Their Children) For Their Lifetime
It may a be well-known cliché that if you give a person a fish he eats for a day, but teach them how to fish and they eat for their lifetime. However, that doesn’t make it any less true. And the same goes for planting, gardening and farming, especially for hardworking...
Safe, Clean Water is Life; Contaminated Water Means Illness, Death for Untold Millions in sub-Saharan Africa
In the United States, Native Lakota Americans have a saying in their tribal language – “Mni Wiconi” – Water is Life. But tragically, for millions in sub-Saharan Africa without access to clean water who have no choice to drink from unsafe sources potentially...
Year After Year, Decade After Decade, in 2022 Bread and Water for Africa® was There Again to Help Ease Suffering and Save Lives, and a Look Ahead to 2023
Every year, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of children, mothers and fathers, and elders in sub-Saharan African countries die needlessly due to easily preventable and treatable diseases, and whose lives could be saved with basic medicines. In 2021, the most...