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...
In Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe right now there are hundreds of orphaned and abandoned children who have a warm bed to sleep in at night, are receiving three meals a day and are attending school without fear of being turned away due to a lack of ability to pay...
In 2019, Bread and Water for Africa® began a five-year initiative to ensure that students at the Seed School in the Kenyan slum of Kibera, located on the outskirts of Nairobi, receive meals every school day. Kibera is the largest slum in Kenya and one of the largest...
Today, October 16, is World Food Day, commemorating the date of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945, with this year’s theme of “Right to Foods for a Better Life and a Better Future.” “Around 733 million people are facing...
In Uganda, “poor sanitation and hygiene, as well as unequal access to safe drinking water, make thousands of children very sick and at risk of death.” So says UNICEF, noting that WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) “are essential for life and health, but they are...
In rural Malawi, 37 percent of households – more than one-third of the population – lack access to improved drinking water sources and toilet facilities resulting in poor sanitation and hygiene which are “major contributors to the burden of disease and child...