This year, 287 students including 153 girls and 134 boys in the Republic of Chad were able to continue their education without fear of being forced out of the classroom due to a lack of ability to pay their school fees or purchase mandatory school uniforms and...
In March, we reported our efforts to repair nonfunctioning water wells in Ethiopia amidst severe drought and conflict in the Amhara region of the vast country. It was on that World Water Day, March 24, that we announced that “our immediate mission is to help repair...
For nearly three decades, Bread and Water for Africa® (BWA) has provided the essentials to countless orphaned and impoverished children across Africa. Through our dedicated Orphan Care Program and education programs in Africa, we are transforming lives by providing...
“The Democratic Republic of the Congo is suffering from a severe drinking water crisis.” Those stark words came in July from Lucien Beele, executive director of one of our newest WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) partners located in the Democratic Republic of the...
In Zimbabwe, right now, there are 82 primary and secondary school students who are relying on the support of Bread and Water for Africa® to enable them to realize their dream of attending school – and completing their education – their only hope of a life out of dire...
For 200 fortunate Kenya children living in the Nairobi slum of Kibera getting an education at the Seed School not only expands their minds, giving them hope for escape one of the largest slums on the African continent, but also improves their nutritional health. Since...
Although the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Lusaka, Zambia, has had a library for the orphaned and destitute children and youth living there for many years, its materials were what Sima Miyanda described as “old, worn and out of date.” That was its status...
As with all the programs supported by Bread and Water for Africa®, our ultimate goal is to help our partners become self-sufficient by growing enough grains, vegetables, and other staple products to provide enough food for the children and families they serve and...
In 12 small, rural communities in Sierra Leone there are 50,902 girls and boys, women and men who are is desperate need of access to safe, clean water. At one time – decades ago – the residents of the villages had clean water coming fresh from the ground, but a lack...
Acute malnutrition among pregnant women and girls and breastfeeding mothers has increased by 25 percent in recent years in a dozen countries, for the most part all located in sub-Saharan Africa, including countries where Bread and Water for Africa® works such as Chad,...
Bananas, whether “table” bananas for eating out of hand, in cereal or ice cream splits, and the cooking banana (plantains) are an extremely nutritional food, notes the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Banana plants are also “very easy to grow...
About two decades ago, Mumba was born in a Zambian prison. The mother did not want the child the child to grow up in prison because of the environment was not ideal for a child and the extended family were not anywhere close for help. Having no choice, not long after...