Today, January 24, is the United Nations’ International Day of Education which was adopted in December 2018 to celebrate the role of education for bringing global peace and sustainable development. At Bread and Water for Africa®, we recognize and appreciate today’s...
It may a be well-known cliché that if you give a person a fish he eats for a day, but teach them how to fish and they eat for their lifetime. However, that doesn’t make it any less true. And the same goes for planting, gardening and farming, especially for hardworking...
In the United States, Native Lakota Americans have a saying in their tribal language – “Mni Wiconi” – Water is Life. But tragically, for millions in sub-Saharan Africa without access to clean water who have no choice to drink from unsafe sources potentially...
Every year, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of children, mothers and fathers, and elders in sub-Saharan African countries die needlessly due to easily preventable and treatable diseases, and whose lives could be saved with basic medicines. In 2021, the most...
Across the country and the world, millions of children are eagerly looking forward to Christmas Day – and that includes many children and families in sub-Saharan Africa countries served by Bread and Water for Africa® such as Kenya, Sierra Leone, Zambia, and Zimbabwe...
At Bread and Water for Africa® we have trusted grassroots partners in sub-Saharan Africa who we have provided support to for the orphan care, healthcare, clean water, food sustainability and other critical programs they operate for years, even decades. But our...
Thursday, December 1 is World AIDS Day, an annual global health campaign by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) working to end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030. While in the United States and many other developed countries where...
Together We Give – so they can Eat, Grow and Study 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...
During the decades that Bread and Water for Africa® has been supporting children’s homes in sub-Saharan Africa countries including Kenya, Sierra Leone, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, our supporters who make it all possible are not only helping to provide for their most...
Agriculture, notes the World Bank, already Africa’s largest employer, provides the most immediate means of stimulating economic growth and employment for young people, but significant challenges remain. “To realize this potential, farming must shift rapidly from its...
According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Bank in 2014, women in sub-Saharan Africa “produce up to 80 percent of foodstuffs for household consumption and sale in local markets.” Today, not much has changed in the subsequent...
In 2019, Bread and Water for Africa® began our partnership with the Seed Foundation which operates its Seed School in Kibera, a vast slum on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, among the largest on the African continent. Thanks to our supporters, we were able to provide...