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...
Wilson, Samuel and Joseph: Three Abandoned Brothers Find Love in Phyllis’ Arms
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...
Budding Bakers Get Support in Starting Their Own Cake Business in Zambia
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 –...
How to Help Orphans in Africa
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...
World Health Day 2024: Bread and Water for Africa® Endorses Theme of ‘My health, my right’
Sunday, April 7, is the World Health Organization's (WHO) World Health Day with the theme: “My health, my right” aiming to address the health challenges caused by a myriad of ways from diseases and disasters, to conflicts causing death, pain, hunger and psychological...
World Water Day 2024: ‘Water for Peace’ and Our Efforts in Ethiopia to Repair Wells Amidst Drought and Conflict
This year, the theme for the United Nations’ World Water Day campaign is “Water for Peace,” which focuses on the critical role water plays in the stability and prosperity of the world. As the UN notes, “When water is scarce or polluted, or when people have unequal or...
Nearly 85 percent of Rural Schools in the DRC Lack Safe Drinking Water: Bread and Water for Africa® is Working to Change That for Hundreds of Students
Following a successful pilot project to provide clean water to students in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who had been drinking contaminated water from nearby Lake Tumba in 2023, we are looking forward to continuing our new partnership this year with...
Bread and Water for Africa® Clean Water Projects: A Look Back at 2023, A Look Ahead into 2024
Since 1997, Bread and Water for Africa® has been working to provide people living in remote rural villages throughout sub-Saharan Africa with ready access to clean water for drinking, cooking, bathing and washing, and saving them (especially young girls) with the...








