Action for Ngono Basin Reforestation (ACT-NGONO)
Founder and Director: Richard K. Bataringaya
Mission: To protect the local environment while advancing health, education, and economic growth in the wider local community
Location: Muleba District-Tanzania
The program goals of ACT-NGONO are to work directly with communities to increase their incomes, improve health and education services, increase and diversify agricultural production, protect the environment, build appropriate water supply and sanitation systems, address child malnutrition, address needs of highly vulnerable children, enhance social protection and social accountability and strengthen local capacities in development so as to bring about improvements in the lives and livelihoods of rural residents in Muleba District.
CURRENT NEEDS
Funding needs to rehabilitate and create a sustainable maintenance program for defective wells in Muleba District-Tanzania.
Latest News/Blogs
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...
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 –...
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...
Kitchen and Dining Hall Coming Soon for Kebeneti Secondary School Students
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...
The Joy They Never Forget: Christmas at the Children’s Homes
Christmas time at the children’s homes and orphanages supported by Bread and Water for Africa® in Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe is a joyous time for all the children and youth living there, thanks in no small part to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®. And...
When Medicine Means Survival: A Lifeline for Ethiopia’s Most Vulnerable
Hospitals in Ethiopia, while differing from those in the United States, have a significant impact on their communities by providing essential healthcare services. These facilities are crucial for delivering lifesaving medications and care to impoverished farmers and...
Answering the Call: Combating Extreme Poverty with Bread and Water for Africa®
In 1990, about half of the population in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and two-thirds in East Asia and the Pacific were living in extreme poverty, according to the World Bank. However, in the three decades that followed, these three regions have followed quite...