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...
For Students and Villages in The Drought-Prone Region of Ethiopia a Well Would Provide an Oasis of Water
Due to frequent drought and natural calamities, the area of Meskel Got in the Meket wordea (an administrative division of Ethiopia) of the Amhara region is one of the most drought-prone and food insecure woredas in the Amhara region. In addition, the recent internal...
Bread and Water for Africa® Continues to Provide Clean Water during the Coronavirus Pandemic
As the coronavirus spreads across the globe, most of the headlines on the deadly pandemic have focused on China, the United States and Europe, but as the World Health Organization reported on March 12, there are more than 100 cases recorded in 11 countries in Africa....
22,000 Books on the Way to Ethiopia to Provide Knowledge to Tens of Thousands Eager to Learn
In the Bahir Dar region of Ethiopia, there are 31,904 boys and girls attending primary and preparatory schools and are in desperate need of current text and reference books. And thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® 22,000 books in a 40-foot shipping...
World Food Day, 22,000 books for Ethiopia, and more!
From Abandoned Toddler to College Student, A Poultry Farm in Full Swing, and more!
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...
Water…… a sustainer of life for Abomvomba community in Cameroon
Abomvomba is a small village of about 650 residents about 22 miles from the much larger city of Ebolowa in Cameroon, places it’s likely very few Americans have ever heard of. Recently at Bread and Water for Africa® we first heard of Abomvomba from our partner in the...
A visit to our partners in Ethiopia, World Water Day, and more!
Sierra Leone Maternal Care: Meet Mamie Baindu
We don’t always realize how fortunate we are that our mothers had access to prenatal services and a hospital to deliver us in. In Sierra Leone, most women give birth alone in their homes with no midwife or medical aid, putting them at serious risk for...
Kobby’s Story -Lewa Children’s Home
Kobby was abandoned when she was only 7 years old and the first home she can remember was the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret. “When I came to Lewa Children’s Home, I felt good,” Kobby said. “I attended KipKeino Nursery School and I have...
Water Well Update
This past June, we organized our very first 5K run to fundraise for a water well in Kombolcha, Ethiopia. We are happy to announce that the water well, after months of geological surveys and site adjustments, is finished! Ethiopia was gripped in a devastating drought...