Photo credit/Deutsch Welle In the Sub-Saharan African countries where Bread and Water for Africa® works, health care systems are underfunded and poorly equipped; climate change has caused everything from severe drought to cyclones, and food and clean water are in...
While Ebola is the most immediate health concern in Sierra Leone, that does not mean that other equally life-threatening illnesses have vanished, and our partner there, Christian Health Association of Sierra Leone (CHASL), continues on its mission to meet basic health...
Local Partner: Christian Health Association of Sierra Leone Program Director: Walter Carew Areas Served: Communities located in all districts of Sierra Leone, with a total population of more than five million people. Program Goals: Christian Health Association of...
Update 11/19/2014 In Liberia, the Ebola outbreak there peaked in September, and by early this month signs of normalcy are returning to the capital of Monrovia as the rate of new Ebola infections are decreasing. Sadly, that is not the case in Sierra Leone where our...
This summer, more than 600 Africans, including many in Sierra Leone, have died due to an outbreak of the Ebola virus, including many health workers themselves trying to save lives. For many years, Bread and Water for Africa® has been working with its partner there the...
Toss aside the usual notions of baseball being an all-American past time, - because Chicago White Sox pro-scout, Mr. John Tumminia, is taking his baseball clinic to our partners at the Kipkeino Primary School…in Kenya! A nonprofit organization founded by Mr. John...
The most compelling thing one would notice about Reverend Mambu when meeting him for the first time is easily his warm smile. A smile that reveals nothing of the horrors and hardships he has witnessed and endured with his fellow Sierra Leoneans over the past decades....
Click to view Mozambique's informationClick to view Zimbabwe's information Mozambiqe - Country Information Capital:Maputo History:A Portuguese colony for nearly 500 years, Mozambique finally gained independence in 1975. A civil war ensued immediately and lasted until...
Capital:Lusaka History:A British colony (under the name Northern Rhodesia) until 1964, Zambia was led until 1991 by President Kenneth Kaunda. Kaunda was a strong supporter of other African independence movements, notably in Angola, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique, as well as...
Capital:Harare History:A series of Shona and later Ndebele empires dominated in the millennium prior to the onset of British colonialism, which began in the 1880s. With most other African nations independent by the mid 1960s, Ian Smith, a white Zimbabwean,...
Capital:Freetown History:Inhabited for millennia, Sierra Leone played a key role in the slave trade from its earliest days. Originally controlled by the Portuguese, the area later passed into British hands. The British sent a number of waves of freed slaves to settle...
Capital:YaoundéHistory:Cameroon was created by combining two regions, one of which had been colonized by the French and another (the much smaller part) colonized by the British. Since independence, in 1961, there have only been two leaders. Paul Biya has held power...