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...
Imagine “sharing a scoop hole” with hundreds of fellow villagers as your only water source. Such was the case in nearly a dozen Zambia villages until this spring when thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® we were able to step in and fund the drilling...
“In 2025, an estimated 7.6 million people, including 3.5 million children, will require urgent humanitarian assistance in Zimbabwe due to the El Niño-induced drought, a food and nutrition crisis, floods and public health emergencies.” * We at Bread and Water for...
In 1998, the organization that would become Bread and Water for Africa® awarded a grant of $5,000 to the Kabwata Transit Centre (later the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre) in Lusaka, Zambia, upon the request of its founder, Angela Miyanda, who had formed a...