“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...
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Bread and Water for Africa® Helping to Fight Deadly Cholera Outbreak in Malawi on Two Fronts
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...
Bread and Water for Africa® Strives to Break the ‘Vicious Cycle’ of Waterborne Disease and Death in Rural Democratic Republic of Congo Community
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...
Bread and Water for Africa® Clean Water Development Projects Eliminate Risk of Illness and Death for Tens of Thousands More Year After Year
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...
Seed School Feeding Program Transforming Lives for Students in Nairobi Slum Thanks to Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®
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...
2-year-old ‘Rumbie’ Living Her Best Life at Lerato Children’s Village After Suffering Hunger and Abuse
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...
Bread and Water for Africa® Providing Warm Beds for Tanzanian Orphans
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...
School Fee Support Program in Chad: “A Miracle” for Many
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...
Give a Person Cassava and Groundnuts and They Eat for Day; Teach Them How to Grow It, and They Eat (and Feed Their Children) For Their Lifetime
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...
Safe, Clean Water is Life; Contaminated Water Means Illness, Death for Untold Millions in sub-Saharan Africa
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...
Year After Year, Decade After Decade, in 2022 Bread and Water for Africa® was There Again to Help Ease Suffering and Save Lives, and a Look Ahead to 2023
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...
Thank You from Many Across sub-Saharan Africa to Our Guardian Angels
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...