At Bread and Water for Africa® our primary concern is for children who have been orphaned or left destitute and have nowhere else to turn but to our partners in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Zambia who take them them in and consider them as if their own children. Among them is...
John was abandoned by his own mother to fend for himself on the streets of Lusaka, Zambia at the tender age of just 3 years old. Authorities rescued him from an uncertain future (to say the least) and brought him to the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre, supported...
At Bread and Water for Africa® take pride in all that we were able to accomplish in 2021 working with our partners in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — all thanks to our generous and compassionate supporters without whom...
Surely everyone has heard the oft-quoted proverb: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” At Bread and Water for Africa® we take that maxim a step further through our agriculture programs which allow us to...
Water is the essence of life, clean water that is. But for millions living in rural, remote villages in sub-Saharan African countries having access to safe water for drinking, cooking, bathing and washing is the exception, not the rule, as most must risk their lives...
At Bread and Water for Africa® we believe that education is not just a key to success, but THE key which opens the door to a brighter future. And that is certainly the case in sub-Saharan African countries where for millions of children their greatest wish – to attend...
In November, the Associated Press reported “Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disaster” and while we at Bread and Water for Africa® were pleased, we also realize that the detrimental impact of COVID-19 on our partners in sub-Saharan African countries...
At age 6, Malawian Rita Bonzo suffered a serious accident which left her without the use the legs, and all through the rest of her childhood and into adulthood she struggled to get around with the help of others in the village of Lameck. But despite the challenges she...
Today, December 1, is the United Nations’ World AIDS Day which this year, the theme is: END INEQUALITIES. END AIDS. END PANDEMICS. World AIDS Day is organized through UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, to highlight the urgent need to end the...
Dear Friends and Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, It is with great sadness I report the passing of Clyde “C.B.” Richardson on November 6, 2021, a member of the Christian Relief Services Board of Directors (the parent organization of Bread and Water for...
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 hundreds of thousands live in extreme poverty, earning...
In the 1970s, Phyllis Keino, who would eventually become the international spokesperson for Bread and Water for Africa®, began fostering and taking in destitute and abandoned children in the surrounding communities around the town of Eldoret, Kenya. In December 1988,...