Madam Kadie Foday has not had an easy life trying to make a living for herself in rural Sierra Leone. At age 53, she has no children, and her husband has passed away leaving her a widow to fend for herself. To top it off, earlier this year she was suffering from a...
The Lerato Children’s Village, operated by our longtime partner in Zimbabwe, Shinga Development Trust, strives to fulfill the needs of orphaned and vulnerable children by offering a quality home environment and services that promote the physical, social, spiritual,...
For more than 10 years, Bread and Water for Africa® has been partnering with Haramaya University (HU), a top university system in Ethiopia which operates an extensive network of clinics and hospitals throughout the country, to support its efforts to provide free,...
For the past few years, thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, we have been able to provide grant funding to the Seed School located in the slum of Kibera in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya to enable the school to provide free meals to more than 200...
This Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 8, there are thousands of children whose mothers are alive today because of the supporters of many organizations such as Bread and Water for Africa®. And by the same token there are thousands of mothers of infants and young children who...
Last summer, Richard Bataringaya, executive director of our partner in Tanzania, Action for Ngono Basin Reforestation (ACTNGONO) reached out to Bread and Water for Africa® with a request to help the residents of eight villages in the country’s Muleba District living...
This Friday, April 22, is UNESCO’s (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 52nd annual Earth Day celebration with this year’s theme being “Invest In Our Planet.” “Earth Day 2022 is focused on accelerating solutions to combat our greatest...
As of right now, there are just over 100 orphaned and abandoned children living at the Karen Baird Children’s Home (KBCH) in Sierra Leone who know exactly how fortunate they are to receive three healthy, filling meals a day, have a roof over their head and a warm bed...
Today, Thursday, April 7, is the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Day with this year’s theme of “Our planet, our health” was chosen “in the face of the current pandemic, a polluted planet, and an increasing incidence of diseases.” This call from the WHO...
Today, Tuesday, March 22, is the United Nations’ World Water Day with this year’s theme being Groundwater – Making the Invisible Visible, something Bread and Water for Africa® has been doing for decades since digging our first well in sub-Saharan Africa. “Groundwater...
The village of Bakaba in rural Chad is not easy to get to notes Kingsley Mbushou, project manager of our partner, Hope Services, headquartered in Cameroon. “It has a difficult road path that’s only easily accessible with particular car models and strong motorbikes,”...
In rural central and western Uganda, there are more than 200 villages where residents have no choice but to get their water from unprotected springs that are more often than not contaminated by human and livestock waste where bacteria, viruses and parasites breed. In...
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...
In the United States this year, Monday, February 21 is Presidents’ Day, but around the world it is also the United Nations’ International Mother Language Day. The day was established by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to...
At the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Lusaka, Zambia, orphaned and abandoned are cared for in a loving environment, and thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, are ensured of getting three healthy meals every day. Founder and director Angela...
For three decades, Bread and Water for Africa® has been providing assistance to thousands of impoverished small-holder farmers trying to eke out not just a living – but a life – on their tiny plots of land in numerous countries in sub-Saharan Africa including...
Although progress is being made against the COVID-19 pandemic in the sub-Saharan African countries where our partners operate hospitals and clinics, the situation remains dim for millions of children throughout sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report published in...
Today, Monday, January 24, is the United Nations’ International Day of Education designed to be a platform to showcase the most important transformations that have to be nurtured to realize everyone’s fundamental right to education and build a more sustainable,...
At Bread and Water for Africa® our primary concern is for children who have been orphaned or left destitute and have nowhere else to turn but to our partners in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Zambia who take them them in and consider them as if their own children. Among them is...
John was abandoned by his own mother to fend for himself on the streets of Lusaka, Zambia at the tender age of just 3 years old. Authorities rescued him from an uncertain future (to say the least) and brought him to the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre, supported...
At Bread and Water for Africa® take pride in all that we were able to accomplish in 2021 working with our partners in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — all thanks to our generous and compassionate supporters without whom...
Surely everyone has heard the oft-quoted proverb: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” At Bread and Water for Africa® we take that maxim a step further through our agriculture programs which allow us to...
Water is the essence of life, clean water that is. But for millions living in rural, remote villages in sub-Saharan African countries having access to safe water for drinking, cooking, bathing and washing is the exception, not the rule, as most must risk their lives...
At Bread and Water for Africa® we believe that education is not just a key to success, but THE key which opens the door to a brighter future. And that is certainly the case in sub-Saharan African countries where for millions of children their greatest wish – to attend...
In November, the Associated Press reported “Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disaster” and while we at Bread and Water for Africa® were pleased, we also realize that the detrimental impact of COVID-19 on our partners in sub-Saharan African countries...
At age 6, Malawian Rita Bonzo suffered a serious accident which left her without the use the legs, and all through the rest of her childhood and into adulthood she struggled to get around with the help of others in the village of Lameck. But despite the challenges she...
Today, December 1, is the United Nations’ World AIDS Day which this year, the theme is: END INEQUALITIES. END AIDS. END PANDEMICS. World AIDS Day is organized through UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, to highlight the urgent need to end the...
Dear Friends and Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, It is with great sadness I report the passing of Clyde “C.B.” Richardson on November 6, 2021, a member of the Christian Relief Services Board of Directors (the parent organization of Bread and Water for...
While in sub-Saharan African countries there are millions of children going hungry every day, the situation is especially dire in Kibera, the largest slum on the continent on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya where hundreds of thousands live in extreme poverty, earning...
In the 1970s, Phyllis Keino, who would eventually become the international spokesperson for Bread and Water for Africa®, began fostering and taking in destitute and abandoned children in the surrounding communities around the town of Eldoret, Kenya. In December 1988,...
In addition to providing preventative health care services for infants, toddlers and their mothers and treatment, and clean water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and washing for rural villagers lacking access to safe sources, Bread and Water for Africa® prioritizes...
On December 9, 1988, Gene Krizek, founder of Christian Relief Services, announced at its board of directors meeting that “An appeal is going out this month to support Kip Keino’s orphanage.” That appeal ultimately led to the formation of Christian Relief Services’...
This coming Saturday, October 16, is World Food Day, an international day celebrated every year to commemorate the date of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945. The day is celebrated widely by many other organizations concerned...
The Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Center in Zambia provides shelter, healthcare, an education, and other necessities including ensuring that the nearly 80 orphaned and abandoned children who call Kabwata home get three nutritious, filling meals every day – something...
Earlier this year, one of our newest partners, the Our AIM Foundation (OAF), requested grant funding from Bread and Water for Africa® to assist the organization in the construction of seven boreholes (water wells) in rural villages in Malawi. OAF program manager...
As is the case in the United States, in the past few months, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been seeing an uptick in the numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases. In July, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reported that, according to the...
Dear Bread and Water for Africa® Inc. Family, The passing of Adeline “Addy” Rose Krizek this past weekend has brought messages of grief from not only those who knew her well in her community of Alexandria, Virginia, where she was revered for her selfless service to...
Since 1967, the United National Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) International Literacy Day has taken place on September 8 to remind the public of the importance of being able to read and write as a matter of dignity and human rights, and...
At Bread and Water for Africa®, we don’t just want to give a man (or woman) a bag of rice to eat for a week or two and then go hungry again, we want him to learn to grow it, and how to sell it, in order to build a life of self-sufficiency for himself and his family....
In 2019, Bread and Water for Africa® began our partnership with Rural Youth Development Organization – Sierra Leone by helping to fund the rehabilitation of its health clinic in the small village of Mokoba, the only medical facility in the area that provides free and...
Longtime Bread and Water for Africa® partner Esther Ndichafah, CEO of Hope Services, may be located in Cameroon, but that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t care equally for the children and youth of neighboring country Chad as much as she does for those in her own country...
The United Nations’ International Youth Day has been recognized each August 12 since it was first observed in 2000 and designated to draw attention to a given set of cultural and legal issues surrounding youth. The theme of this year’s International Youth Day is...
At Bread and Water for Africa® among our missions is to provide medicines, and medical supplies and equipment to hospitals and clinics in sub-Saharan African countries where access to healthcare is practically nonexistent for those who have little or no ability to pay...
July 18 marks what would’ve been Nelson Mandela’s 103rd birthday. The date is also recognized around the world as Nelson Mandela International Day by the United Nations which is asking people around the world to make a difference in their communities. This year’s...
For children living in sub-Saharan African countries such as Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Zimbabwe and elsewhere, nothing is more important for them to build a successful life than for them to get an education – a fact they know well! Unlike...
For far too many children in Kenya, the opportunity to attend school is a privilege, not a guarantee, and during the worst of the COVID-19 and schools were closed throughout the country last year and the first part of this year, they were devasted in a myriad of ways,...
While we in the United States are seeing hope that the COVID-19 pandemic is waning throughout the country – particularly in states with high vaccination rates – sadly, that is not the case in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. And today it is with heavy hearts that...
On behalf of hundreds of residents of the small villages of Lukaaka and Mawonvu in central Uganda, we at Bread and Water for Africa® want to express our heartfelt gratitude to the federal employees who supported our spring protection program through their Combined...
If something works, such as how for years the Baraka Farm has been providing support to our longtime partner, the Lewa Children’s Home in Eldoret, Kenya (founded by our international spokesperson Phyllis Keino), we strive to replicate it elsewhere in the sub-Saharan...
From the earliest days of Bread and Water for Africa® our primary focus has been providing safe, loving homes for thousands of orphaned and abandoned children in Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and most recently, Sierra Leone. Thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for...
We know the coronavirus crisis spreads throughout the world, it is increasingly clear that people in Muleba, Tanzania with the least access to clean water will feel the most dramatic effects. Action for Ngono Basin Reforestation (ACT-NGONO) in Muleba, Tanzania is...
In the 46 countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) there are just over 1 billion people (14 percent of the world’s population), the vast majority in dire poverty which has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The first confirmed case of COVID-19 was confirmed...
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, on this Sunday, May 9, sadly there are millions of children who do not have a mother to thank for bringing them into the world, feeding them when they’re hungry and comforting them when their sick, and most importantly, loving them with...
A year ago, schools throughout Kenya were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and that included the Seed School located in the largest slum in East Africa — Kibera on the outskirts of Nairobi. For more than 100 students who attend the Seed School not only were their...
What started as an idea at an UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) conference in 1969, became what we know today, Thursday, April 22, as Earth Day, is now observed -- 51 years following the very first celebration in 1970 -- in...
We at Bread and Water for Africa® fear what would have happened to 7-year-old Usif when he was severely burned over 70 percent of his small body without the nearby Rokel Clinic where he received free treatment for his injuries. Rev. Francis Mambu, executive director...
Today, April 7, Bread and Water for Africa® supports and applauds the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Day, which has been held every April 7 since 1950 to draw worldwide attention to the major importance of global health. This year’s theme, “Building a...
Bread and Water for Africa® partner Rural Youth Development Organization - Sierra Leone (RYDO-SL) has the primary goal “to provide free and affordable health services for rural people, including community-based health education, and services to families and...
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, every single day there are millions of Africans who have no choice but to fetch untreated water from contaminated sources for drinking, cooking, bathing, and washing. But thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, for more...
In the Mityana, Luwero, Kiboga, Nakaseke, Nakasongola, Mubenede, and other districts in Uganda, a year ago there was an estimated 3,000 people living in 15 villages who had no source of clean, safe water for all their daily needs, reported David Ssagala, manager of...
Action for Ngono Basin Reforestation (ACT-NGONO) operates in the Muleba District in Tanzania with the goal of refurbishing non-functional water wells in the district this year. ACT-NGONO learned of Bread and Water for Africa® online and approached us about the...
Access to clean, safe water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and washing is a key determinant for infectious disease control and prevention, however, a 2020 study reports that in sub-Saharan Africa nearly 300 million people live there in water-stressed environments....
Elizabeth lives in a rural, remote region of Sierra Leone where free, or even affordable, healthcare would be practically nonexistent without the Mokoba Health Center, operated by Bread and Water for Africa® partner there, Rural Youth Development Organization – Sierra...
This Sunday, February 21, is International Mother Language Day which was designated by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999 as part of a broader initiative “to promote the preservation and protection of all languages...
For years, Bread and Water for Africa® has been providing medicines, and medical supplies, and equipment to our partners in Africa who operate clinics and hospitals offering free and low-cost healthcare to tens of thousands of infants and children, young mothers, and...
The Centers for Disease Control has issued travel advisories for Americans considering traveling to Zambia and Zimbabwe where Bread and Water for Africa® partners the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre and the Lerato Children’s Village, respectively, operate. Of...
Bread and Water for Africa® longtime partner Shinga Development Trust in Zimbabwe, which operates the Lerato Children’s Village, was founded with the lofty goal of meeting the basic needs of orphaned and vulnerable children by providing them with a home where they...
At the Kabawata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Zambia, our longtime partner Angela Miyanda. Its founder and director, is caring for 62 children –36 girls and 26 boys – all orphaned or abandoned and brought to her by the country’s Department of Social Welfare. Among...
With the COVID -19 pandemic causing significant negative impacts in Zimbabwe, including and especially hunger in the impoverished country, this fall Margaret Makambira, founder and director of our longtime partner there, the Shinga Development Trust and its Lerato...
While 2020 was a challenging year for all of us in the United States, so was the case in the sub-Saharan African countries where we work. While we are thankful that the COVID-19 pandemic has not caused a severe outbreak resulting in tens of thousands of deaths as...
While 2020 has been a challenging year for us all, the global COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the ability of our partners and the people living in the sub-Saharan African countries they serve – including Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Zambia,...
We are honored, and humbled, to wish our visionary founder, Gene Krizek, a hearty 93rd Happy Birthday. A former Congressional Administrative Assistant, a retired Foreign Service Officer and a retired Colonel in the United States Air Force, Eugene “Gene” Krizek served...
Children and youth in Zimbabwe understand all too well that being able to go to school and getting an education is their pathway out of a life of dire poverty, menial labor, and a successful future. And thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® such as...
For more than two decades, we at Bread and Water for Africa® have remained committed to providing clean, safe drinking water for tens of thousands of children, parents and elders in sub-Saharan Africa. Over the years, we have dug wells in countries including...
Setric was born in the Nairobi slum of Kibera in 2008, and dire poverty is all she has ever known in her 12 years of life. But, despite all the challenges and roadblocks placed in her path due to the circumstances far beyond her control, the young girl on the verge of...
In January, thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, we were able to provide a grant to provide two meals each school day to 125 children attending the Seed School in the Nairobi slum of Kibera for the entire academic term. But that was before the...
In addition to, of course, food security and access to clean, safe water, addressing the lack of adequate healthcare is the most pressing need in Sub-Saharan Africa today, especially in light of the global COVID-19 pandemic. In the impoverished country of Sierra...
Earlier this year, before the COVID-19 pandemic had been making inroads into sub-Saharan African countries such as Uganda, Bread and Water for Africa® agreed to support construction of 15 of our partner there, Bega Kwa Bega’s (BkB), water protection projects. The...
Rice is among the most common staple foods in Africa, and thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® our partner in Sierra Leone, Faith Healing Development Organization (FHDO), has been able to significantly increase its rice production significantly....
Today, October 16, is the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation’s World Food Day which recognizes the sad fact of steady increase in hunger since 2014 together with rising obesity due to poor nutrition, clearly indicates the need to accelerate and...
Jeneba is grateful to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® for making it possible to for us to provide funding for our partner Rural Youth Development Organization Sierra Leone enabling us to renovations its Mokoba clinic where she gave birth to twins. In...
Medicines, medical supplies and equipment are always in short supply in the rural regions of sub-Saharan African countries, and with the COVID-19 pandemic continuing its spread throughout the continent these items are needed now more than ever. This month, we are...
Our longtime partner in Cameroon, Hope Services Ministry International (HSMI), was founded in 1994 to provide humanitarian services including free and low-cost health care to tens of thousands of children, women, prisoners and vulnerable people in general. Thanks to...
Medicine Distribution to Health Centers in Sierra Leone “While so much about the virus and how it operates remains unclear, sub-Saharan Africa so far has dodged a deadly wave of coronavirus cases.” — The Washington Post, September 22, 2020 While that may be true in...
In Sub-Saharan African countries such as Sierra Leone, the coronavirus pandemic has closed schools for months and because the vast majority have been unable to make the transition to online education, school closures have widening the pre-existing gap between how much...
Today, September 8, is the United Nations’ International Literacy Day which this year focuses on “Literacy teaching and learning in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.” The theme highlights literacy learning in a lifelong learning perspective, and therefore, mainly...
Dear Supporter of Bread and Water for Africa®, September 5 is the United Nations’ International Day of Charity which was declared by the UN General Assembly in 2012 to commemorate the anniversary of the passing away of Mother Teresa who devoted her life to helping the...
Community members outside the Mokoba clinic wearing reusable face masks made by a local tailor with materials provided by Bread and Water for Africa. Throughout the African continent, which had been spared thebrunt of COVID-19 pandemic in terms of confirmed cases and...
Bishop John Yambasu of Sierra Leone gives the sermon during morning worship at the 2016 United Methodist General Conference in Portland, Ore. File photo by Mike DuBose, UM News. It is with personal, heartfelt sadness that I must report the sudden, tragic death of...
At Bread and Water for Africa®, we have been promoting foodself-sustainability in Africa for over two decades. The COVID-19 era has increased the need more than ever. The COVID-19 outbreak in Zambia is having a devastating impact on the economy of the country, and on...
Imagine you are an 8-year-old whose mother tells you to watch over your 3-year-old sister until she comes back. That’s what happened to Elizabeth, however her mother never returned leaving the two girls to fend for themselves in a small village in Zambia....
The 25-year-old woman from the small village of Gandorhun in Sierra Leone had just lost her husband when she learned she was pregnant and was struggling to care for her two children. “Life had become difficult for her as she also had to take care of her pregnancy,”...
It is what we have been fearing for months ever since the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world – the coronavirus virus making significant inroads into the African continent. “After months in which Africa escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic as the global center...
Photo caption Mr. Mandela with a child on his lap, talking to her. Taken during meetings about HIV/AIDS in November 2004. © NMF Photo/Oryx Media, Benny Gool. Today, July 18, we commend the United Nations for recognizing the life and legacy of South African freedom...
Although the global coronavirus outbreak has not struck Sub-Saharan African countries like Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe as hard as the United States and Europe, the impact is still being felt. In Zimbabwe, Margaret Makambira, founder and director of the Lerato Children’s...
The city of Harbu in rural Ethiopia is home to nearly 190,000 residents who survive by growing what they can — such as rice beans, peas and lentils — on their half hectare (about 1.2 acres) tract of land. Many also raise livestock including cattle, sheep, goats,...
Among our newest partners is the Rural Youth Development Organization Sierra Leone (RYDO-SL) which has been serving impoverished communities in the Bumpe Ngao Chiefdom of the Bo District in the country, including operating a health clinic and pharmacy in the village...
Photo Caption Nurse Koroma is pictured second from left in the pink and white dress. Elizabeth Koroma is among those selfless and dedicated healthcare workers around the world fighting the coronavirus who surely deserve the title of “hero.” Elizabeth was not only a...
Kady is a 75-year-old widow living in the small village of Tenithun in rural Sierra Leone who since the passing of her husband six years ago has been surviving as a substance farmer, depending on the food she grows for herself and her son on her small tract of land....