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...
Millions living in impoverished sub-Saharan African countries face daunting challenges on a daily basis for their very survival, with perhaps the availability of clean drinking water and food security at the top of the list. However, besides water and food, access to...
Earlier this spring, we at Bread and Water for Africa® received a letter from Debora Mkweya, Girls’ Matron at the Konzere Primary School in Ngabu, Malawi, a small town of about 7,000, located about 60 miles from the nation’s second-largest city of Blantyre to thank us...
This Mother’s Day Bread and Water for Africa® is recognizing Angela Miyanda, founder and director of the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Zambia is our second-longest serving partner. It was in 1998, just one year after the incorporation of Bread and Water for...
Water is the essence of life, a fundamental human need without which survival is impossible. Yet, access to this basic necessity remains out of reach for millions of people across the globe, particularly in underserved African communities. The dire implications of...