While malaria is rare in the United States with roughly 2,000 confirmed cases reported annually, such is not the case in sub-Saharan Africa where in 2023 there were 246 million cases and 569,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Friday, April...
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...
This year, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Day, April 7, will kick off “a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health through its campaign “Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures” to urge governments and the health community to ramp up efforts to...
In January, we announced that Bread and Water for Africa® would be partnering this year with Technologies Appropriées pour le Congo (TAC Asbl) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to operate a mobile medical clinic program to serve the most at-risk...
In the heart of Mchinji, Malawi, lies Levison Village, a small community that had long struggled with access to clean water where for generations, the villagers had to rely on contaminated water sources, leading to frequent outbreaks of waterborne diseases and...
For nearly his whole life, 40-year-old Denis Kiyaga, of Namagoma Village in Uganda, risked his life every time he took a drink of water from unsafe water sources in his community. But that was before Bread and Water for Africa® stepped up to protect the village’s...
As it was in the first year of the now 39-year history of Bread and Water for Africa® … CLEAN WATER CONTINUES TO BE A MAJOR EMPHASIS OF OUR WORK. It started with digging deep wells to bring water to villages without access to clean water in sub-Saharan African...
“When small farmers are able to produce more while preserving the land’s fertility for future generations, they can improve their families’ nutrition and become self-sufficient for the long term.” So stated the Gates Foundation in 2011 upon U.S. philanthropist Bill...
Access to basic healthcare is something many of us take for granted. But for countless families across Africa, especially in remote villages, it remains an ongoing struggle. The healthcare initiatives of Bread and Water for Africa® strives to change that reality....
The overall objective of the Rural Youth Development Organization – Sierra Leone’s (RYDO-SL) Farmers Training and Capacity Building Project, supported by Bread and Water for Africa®, (BWA) is to improve the farming and business skills of participants in the areas of...
“Today’s youth are tomorrow’s family farmers, and maintaining interest in farming as a profession is vital to future food security.” So says Joseph Kobba, program director for our partner Rural Youth Development Organization – Sierra Leone (RYDO-SL), our in-country...
In December 2023, Alex Steven Bango, a pastor and chairman of the Faithful Heart Foundation (FHF) in Malawi, reached out to Bread and Water for Africa® for assistance in constructing desperately-need toilet facilities (latrines) at the Konzere Primary School for...