“Accelerating Change” is the theme of the United Nations’ World Water Day 2023, held annually on March 22 since 1993 to highlight the importance of fresh, clean water and its WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) goals for people throughout the world. At Bread and...
The headlines are disturbing and tragic: “Children face acute risk amid Malawi’s deadliest cholera outbreak” – The Guardian, March 10, 2023 “Malawi’s deadly cholera epidemic hits the poor hardest” – Reuters, March 9, 2023 And this from Rudolf Schwenk, UN Children’s...
Through the internet, word of the accomplishments of Bread and Water for Africa® is spread to the four corners of the world. And that includes even the far reaches of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). A few months ago, Lucian Beele, executive director of the...
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...
In the Kibera slum on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, our partner, the Seed Foundation, operates its Seed School which serves as an educational oasis in the midst or sheer and unimaginable poverty. Without it, it is highly doubtful that the 200 children who attend...
Rumbidzai has gone through a lot in her life: abandoned by her mother; suffered severe malnutrition; and exhibiting convincing evidence of physical and mental abuse. “Rumbie,” as she is now fondly known, is just 2 years old and had spent the first years of her life in...
Psalms 10:14 But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless. At Bread and Water for Africa®, we value our longtime partners in orphan care in...
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...