Bakaba is a small rural village in southwestern Chad that is difficult to get there on a road/path that is only possible with certain types of vehicles with four-wheel drive and “strong” motorbikes and little to no “social amenities” including electricity and running...
Taremeredzwa was an 18-years-old secondary school student at Dora High School in Zimbabwe with good grades, ambition and determination with hopes of graduating soon and attending college. But she was also on the verge of dropping out. Taremeredzwa, whose name means...
For all the natural beauty and wonders of sub-Saharan Africa, sadly the majestic continent is plagued by illness and preventable death, hunger and malnutrition, a devastating lack of clean water, a generation of children and youth whose dream of attending school is...
This Thursday, September 8, is UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) International Literacy Day, held annually since 1967 “to remind the public of the importance of literacy as a matter of dignity and human rights, and to advance...
Their names are Wanzala, Elga, Agesa, Anyango, Mbuya, Otieno B., Otieno V., Aloo, Stephen and Ochieng, and they are all promising teenagers growing up in the worst possible situations imaginable in the Nairobi slum of Kibera. They are all also bright, promising...
In the Dora Wards 5 and 35 in Mutare District in Manicaland Province in eastern Zimbabwe there are just nine boreholes in a region with 23 villages and where thousands of residents live without easy access to safe drinking water. “From these statistics, it is...
This Friday, August 12, is the United Nations’ International Youth Day “bringing youth issues to the attention of the international community and celebrating the potential of youth as partners in today’s global society.” At Bread and Water for Africa®, we commend the...
At Bread and Water for Africa® we believe that education is THE KEY out of a life of dire poverty for millions of children throughout sub-Saharan African, especially for orphaned, abandoned and destitute children and youth whose fondest wish is to be able to attend...
In schools, in the United States and elsewhere in developed countries around the world, more and more students are using tablets, Chromebooks and other electronic devices in their classrooms replacing traditional textbooks, but in Third World countries, such as...