Following a successful pilot project to provide clean water to students in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who had been drinking contaminated water from nearby Lake Tumba in 2023, we are looking forward to continuing our new partnership this year with...
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Bread and Water for Africa® Clean Water Projects: A Look Back at 2023, A Look Ahead into 2024
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...
Mushroom Cultivation: A New Hope for Sierra Leone
Mushroom growing in sub-Saharan Africa? Who would’ve thought it? Well, the United Nations’ World Food Program for one. In its March 2021, report “Zimbabwe: Mushroom-growing means independence for women farmers” the WFP stated: “Mushroom farming was identified as a...
WASH Program Calls For ‘Hygiene for All’ at Konzere Primary School in Malawi
At the Konzere Primary School for Girls in the Chikwawa District of Malawi, the 789 girls who are enrolled there currently have no choice but to use a toilet facility that is described as “a miserable, unhygienic facility that brings fear and danger among them.” Alex...
Bread and Water for Africa® Enables Kibera School Students to Pursue Their Dreams
Right now, in Kenya, there are 42 primary school graduates, including the Seed School, located in the heart of the Nairobi slum of Kibera, who want nothing more than to continue their education onto secondary school where upon graduation they will realize their dreams...
Farmers Training Program Participant in Sierra Leone ‘Can’t Wait for the Next Farming Season’
Sierra Leone is among the poorest nations in the world; a country where more than half of the population suffers from malnutrition and more than 500,000 children are at immediate risk of death due to severe malnutrition and the accompanying illnesses caused by a lack...
Bread and Water for Africa® Hopes to Restore Banana Plantation for Flooded Orphans Home in Uganda
In the summer of 2020, the Kyasira Home of Hope for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVC) located on the shores of Lake Victoria in Entebbe, Uganda, was flooded by heavy rains and the lake’s rising waters leaving 62 children and their caregivers stranded, according...
Bread and Water for Africa®: A Look Ahead to Continuing to Save Lives in 2024
It’s said that an organization’s mission is defined by its budget priorities, and at Bread and Water for Africa® our priority is to save lives. That may sound like hyperbole, but it’s a literal statement of fact. For 2024, our largest single budget item – 23 percent...
Over 188,000 Lives Impacted by Bread and Water for Africa® in 2023
As we step into 2024, Bread and Water for Africa® is celebrating a multitude of mission successes throughout the past year. See all that we were able to achieve thanks to the generosity of our supporters and why we have such gratitude and a vibrant hope for the...
Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® Ensure a Merry Christmas for Orphans in Tanzania, Zambia and Elsewhere This Holiday Season
On Christmas Day this year, dozens of children living at the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre opened their presents from “Santa” as do millions in the U.S. and around the world. But in their case, it’s not their parents who place the presents under the tree, but a...
Bread and Water for Africa® Teams Up with Technologies Appropriées pour le Congo to Provide Clean Water for Thousands of Students and Villagers in the DRC
At the start of this year, the executive director of Technologies Appropriées pour le Congo, Association Sans But Lucrative (TAC Asbl), headquartered in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), reached out to Bread and Water for Africa® with a request for...
Orphaned Children in Tanzania ‘Blessed’ that Bread and Water for Africa® ‘Has Come to Their Rescue’
It has been more than a year ago that Bread and Water for Africa® provided our first grant for pilot project to a potential new partner in Tanzania, Watoto Wa Africa (Children of Africa) to prevent the orphanage it operates from being shut down. The purpose of the...
“Little” Michael at Kabwata: Blessed to Have Angela, Bread and Water for Africa® and His Namesake Looking Out for Him
Some four years ago, an infant boy was born to a teenage girl who had found a loving home at the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Lusaka, Zambia, and into the caring arms of its founder and director Angela Miyanda. It was subsequently learned as a toddler that...
Finding Hope During Poverty in Kenya: How Our Partners Help Kenyan Families
Poverty continues to remain a pressing issue for a significant portion of Kenya’s population. In 2022, 8.9 million Kenyans lived in extreme poverty, earning below $1.90 US dollars per day. These numbers highlight the significant challenges that millions face with...
Bread and Water for Africa® Student Feeding Program in Kenyan Slum ‘A Major Accomplishment’ Says School Director
Back in June 2020, Patrick Odongo, founder and director of the Seed Foundation which operates the Seed School in the heart of the massive slum of Kibera on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, reported that beginning in January of that year that thanks to the supporters...
Lute: Ready to Take the ‘Next Step Forward’ into Adulthood with Opening of Hair Salon in Zambia
Lute Tembo has lived at the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Lusaka, Zambia, since she was three weeks old – and at 24 today, it had been the only home she had ever known before moving into a home nearby she shares with Kabwata staff member Beatrice, and Aggie,...
Eat, Grow and Study
Seed School Meals Program: Feeding Body and Mind and Spirit in the Slum of Kibera
In the massive slum on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, known as Kibera, in the midst of dire poverty and hopelessness there is a beacon of light known as the Seed School. It is where some 200 children and youth have the opportunity to begin their education, their...
Abandoned, Infant Twins Levi and Lily Find Love and More at the Only Home They’ve Ever Known
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa there are thousands of orphaned and abandoned children and youth who have much to be thankful for this upcoming holiday season thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®. They are the destitute and most vulnerable living in...
On World Food Day We Thank the Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® for Helping to Feed Thousands Daily
This Monday, October 16, is World Food Day, celebrated every year to commemorate the date of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945. This year’s theme, “Water is life, water is food. Leave no one behind.” which recognizes that...
The Making ‘A Nurse With a Difference’ in Chad Thanks to the Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®
In August, we reported on the success of our school fees support program in Chad which in cooperation with our longtime partner, Hope International Foundation (HIF), headquartered in Cameroon, was making it possible for 183 underprivileged children and youth (99 males...
‘We Will Do Well Now’ Says Teen of Herself and Two Younger Sisters Now Attending School in Tanzania
In Tanzania, an estimated two million children between the ages of 7 and 13 years old are out-of-school,” according to UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund. In addition, “Almost 70 percent of children aged 14-17 years old are not enrolled in secondary education...
Bringing Clean, Safe Water ‘To the Doorstep’ to Hundreds in Rural Zambian Villages
The rural Kalabo District in Zambia is a difficult area to work in as the terrain is mainly deep Kalahari sand resulting in most villages not having basic water supply infrastructure, according to Elisha Ng’onomo, executive director of one of our newest partners,...
Working Tirelessly to Ensure Educations for Hundreds in Sub-Saharan Africa on International Literacy Day, and Every Day
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) International Literacy Day is this Friday, Sept. 8, under the theme “Promoting literacy for a world in transition: Building the foundation for sustainable and peaceful societies.”...
Providing a ‘Ray of Hope’ for Our Seed School Scholars on Their Way to Completing Their Education
Elga Ochieng and Stephen Okoth want nothing more in life right now than the opportunity to continue to be able to complete their secondary school education. Elga and Stephen grew up in the Kenyan slum of Kibera – among the largest slums on the continent – on the...
‘Thank You for Saving My Daughter’s Life’ says Grateful Mother in Sierra Leone
The sad, tragic news is that according to the World Health Organization (WHO), Sierra Leone, where our longtime partner Rural Youth Health Organization (RYDO) partners operate free clinics for the poor, has the highest death rate from disease in the world. The number...
Giving Education, Hope and Realizing Dreams for Many at the Eugene L. Krizek School in Lusaka, Zambia
Many years ago, our longtime partner, Angela Miyanda, founder and director of the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Lusaka, Zambia, had a dream to open an early childhood center for the youngest of the orphaned, abandoned and destitute children in her care. That...
Bread and Water for Africa® Ensures Nearly 200 Children in Chad are Able to Attend School Each Year
In Chad, one of the poorest countries in the world, the rate of illiteracy among youth is about 70 percent, which according to UNICEF (originally known as the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund), “which is about more than 2 million youth who do not...
Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® from United States Pay a Visit to the Kabwata Orphanage, and More!
On the morning of Thursday, July 6, the children of the Kabwata Orphanage & Transit Centre located in the heart of the capital of Zambia, Lusaka, who attend the nearby Eugene School were patiently waiting for “special guests” from halfway around the world. The...
Bread and Water for Africa® Joins with the World Today to Celebrate the Memory of Nelson Mandela
A winner is a dreamer who never gave up. Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela never gave up – and for that reason today, July 18, we at Bread and Water for Africa® are joining in the worldwide recognition of his life on the United Nations’ Nelson Mandela International Day....
Bread and Water for Africa® Orphan Care Partner in Tanzania Provides Children With a Chance For a Bright Future
In 2022, the founder and program director of Watoto Wa Africa (Children of Africa), Josephat Kirutu reached out to Bread and Water for Africa® for urgent help in preventing the orphanage he operates in Mwanza, Tanzania for 86 children from being closed by the...
‘Farming God’s Way’ Increases Production, Conserves Precious Topsoil and Transforms Lives in Malawi
It’s called “Farming God’s Way” (FGW) and more and more small farmers in rural regions of sub-Saharan African countries, such as Malawi, are turning to this method to increase their harvests and conserve their soil and, in fact, make more fertile with each growing...
Bread and Water for Africa® Board Member Donates Sprayers to Protect Smallholder Farmers’ Crops from Pests and Diseases in Sierra Leone
Thomas M. “Tom” O’Brien is a successful businessman and entrepreneur who understands risks and rewards upon having founded four private businesses and serving as a CEO or CFO of several public corporations. At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Tom made a calculated...
Bookbags, School Supplies Lead to ‘Independent Members of Society’ for Kenyan Orphans
For more than two decades, thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, we have been able to provide grant funding to the Lewa Children’s Home in Eldoret, Kenya, ensuring that over the years hundreds, if not thousands, of orphaned and abandoned children...
Books for Hope: The Kabwata Orphanage Library Project
Whether in the United States or Zambia, children who have the opportunity to spend time “exploring” the world through books at their local libraries experience greater levels of inquisitiveness and a develop a desire to learn through reading. Sadly, in Zambia,...
Tuberculosis in Sub-Sahara Africa: The Role of NGOs Like BWA
In the United States, tuberculosis (TB) is not much on the mind of Americans in the country where 8,300 cases were reported in 2022, making the incidence rate of 2.5 cases per 100,000 persons, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Compare that...
Kebeneti Secondary School Library Project Completed: ‘The Best Place to Be’ Says Grateful Student
Even in this increasingly digital age, students of all ages all around the world still rely on the printed page and the books they’re contained in for much of their educational growth and progress – especially for those in sub-Saharan African countries where...
This Mother’s Day, Bread and Water for Africa® Recognizes ‘Mothers’ of Many in Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Mother’s Day is celebrated each year on the second Sunday in May in the United States, this year on May 14, and also on that day around the world in countries in sub-Saharan Africa including Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe where our partners the Lewa Children’s Home, the...
Transforming Lives: BWA’s Prenatal Supplement Program in Cameroon
Acute malnutrition among pregnant women and girls and breastfeeding mothers has increased by 25 percent in the past two 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...
Bread and Water for Africa®: Preventing Malaria on World Malaria Day, and Every Day!
According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Malaria Report 2022 issued in December, there were 247 million cases of malaria worldwide in 2021 resulting in 619,000 deaths with the WHO African Region continuing to carry a disproportionately high share of...
Economic Empowerment for People in Africa: Farms for the Future
When 12-century philosopher Maimonides wrote about the eight degrees of charity, he said: “Lastly, the eighth and most meritorious of all, is to anticipate charity by preventing poverty, namely, to assist the reduced brother…by teaching him a trade, or by putting him...
Bread and Water for Africa® Helps to Fight Malaria and Other Deadly Illnesses in Sierra Leone Through Shipments of Medicines and Medical Supplies to Our Healthcare Partners
In Sierra Leone, the challenges are many for more than 8.8 million residents (2023 current est.) who live in a country which spends less than 9 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on healthcare compared to 18.8 percent in the United States in 2020, according...
Kebeneti Clinic is Saving Lives in Rural Kenya with Help from Bread and Water for Africa®
The Kebeneti SDA Dispensary in Kericho, Kenya was founded in 1966 in a two-room mud building with the mission of serving children and adults in desperate need of healthcare in a rural region of the country where medical services were extremely limited. And decades...
World Health Organization and Bread and Water for Africa® Continue to Work for ‘Health For All’ on World Health Day
This Friday, April 7, marks the 75th anniversary of the World Health Organization’s World Health Day when “in 1948 countries of the world came together and founded WHO to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable – so everyone, everywhere can attain...
Living in Tanzania: How We Help With Health, Education, and More!
Tanzania is an African country located between the continent's eastern and central regions. With a population of roughly 63.3 million people, it is one of the most populous countries in Africa. Tanzania has a diversified economy featuring both industry and...
Bread and Water for Africa® Working to ‘Accelerate Change’ for Thousands This Year Through Clean Water Projects
“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...
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, Lucien 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...
Help Bread and Water for Africa® for Those Who Have Given Up Hope for Medical Treatment in Malawi
At Bread and Water for Africa® we have trusted grassroots partners in sub-Saharan Africa who we have provided support to for the orphan care, healthcare, clean water, food sustainability and other critical programs they operate for years, even decades. But our...
Bread and Water for Africa® Recognizes World AIDS Day 2022
Thursday, December 1 is World AIDS Day, an annual global health campaign by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) working to end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030. While in the United States and many other developed countries where...
Giving Tuesday 2022
Together We Give – so they can Eat, Grow and Study 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...
12-Year-Old Girl’s Journey to Support Her Family Could Have Been Tragic Without Kabwata Orphanage in Zambia
During the decades that Bread and Water for Africa® has been supporting children’s homes in sub-Saharan Africa countries including Kenya, Sierra Leone, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, our supporters who make it all possible are not only helping to provide for their most...
Agricultural Training Program for Youth in Sierra Leone Inspires Many to Grow and Sell Produce to Support Their Families
Agriculture, notes the World Bank, already Africa’s largest employer, provides the most immediate means of stimulating economic growth and employment for young people, but significant challenges remain. “To realize this potential, farming must shift rapidly from its...
Agricultural Support Program in Sierra Leone is Transforming Lives for Women Farmers, Their Families and Their Communities
According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Bank in 2014, women in sub-Saharan Africa “produce up to 80 percent of foodstuffs for household consumption and sale in local markets.” Today, not much has changed in the subsequent...
With Help from Bread and Water Africa® Kenyan Children Living in Slum Will Rise Up from Their Humble Background
In 2019, Bread and Water for Africa® began our partnership with the Seed Foundation which operates its Seed School in Kibera, a vast slum on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, among the largest on the African continent. Thanks to our supporters, we were able to provide...
Orphan Care Partners Help Children and Youth Reach Their Best Lives for the Future Thanks to Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®
Of all the worthy programs Bread and Water for Africa® funds in nearly a dozen sub-Saharan African countries – clean water, healthcare, education – nothing is more near and dear to our hearts than orphan care. That’s why for some three decades we have been supporting...
Bread and Water for Africa® Recognizes Ms. Fidence for Her Efforts in Educating Students in Nairobi Slum on This World Teachers’ Day
Wednesday, October 5, is UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Teachers’ Day, proclaimed in 1994 with the focus on appreciating, assessing and improving the educators of the world. The theme for 2022 is “The Transformation...
‘Major Milestone’ Coming to Fruition with Completion Soon of New School Building for Village Students in Chad
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...
Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® Open Doors for Zimbabwean Student Now Attending University
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...
Bread and Water for Africa® Celebrates Decades of Successes; Yet Much Remains to Be Done for Children of Africa
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...
Bread and Water for Africa® Strives to Increase Literacy for Tens of Thousands in sub-Saharan Africa Year After Year
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...
Support the Seed School Scholars Continue Their Education
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...
Rural Zimbabwe Villages are High Priority for Bread and Water for Africa® Water Project
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...
Bread and Water for Africa® Commends and Supports UN’s International Youth Day Through Food Self-Sufficiency Program for Youth in Sierra Leone
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...
Thousands of Children and Youth Benefit from Bread and Water for Africa® Education Programs Year After Year
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...
Textbooks Desperately Needed in Ugandan Schools Where 10 Students Share One Book
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...
School Building Desperately Needed in Chad for Students With Big Dreams
Longtime Bread and Water for Africa® partner Hope International Foundation (HIF) in Yaoundé, Cameroon, was founded in 1994 has provided holistic humanitarian services to more than 100,000 vulnerable persons – primarily children – since its inception in a number of...
Wheelchair Transforms Life for Handicapped Malawian Woman
In Malawi, 85 percent of the population 19 million people live in small villages that dot the rural countryside, and for those with mobility issues that means they are often confined to their mud-walled, thatched-roof homes. For adults, a trip away from their village...
A Tractor Will Bring Food for Orphaned Children and Lead Their Home on a Path to Self-Sufficiency
Today, there are more than 100 orphaned and destitute children who call the Karen Baird Children’s Home (KBCH) in Sierra Leone “my home” – for many the only true home they have ever known. The children, such as Fatmata, Joseph,...
Amie, Jusu and Jeneba Leading the Way Towards Self-Sufficiency for Small Farmers in Sierra Leone With the Help of the Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®
At Bread and Water for Africa® we strive to help individuals struggling to support themselves and their families through subsistence farming on their small parcels of land by providing our partners in sub-Saharan Africa with funding to offer training, tools and more...
For Students and Villages in The Drought-Prone Region of Ethiopia a Well Would Provide an Oasis of Water
Due to frequent drought and natural calamities, the area of Meskel Got in the Meket wordea (an administrative division of Ethiopia) of the Amhara region is one of the most drought-prone and food insecure woredas in the Amhara region. In addition, the recent internal...
Greetings and a Grateful Thank You from Agnes at Kabwata Orphanage, Zambia to the Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®
Hello, my name is Agnes, and I offer my greetings from the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Zambia where I grew up and lived for 18 years – practically all my entire life! I have no other family but my “family” here at Kabwata and it is with my gratitude that I...
Medicine Provided to Sierra Leone Health Center by Bread and Water for Africa® Alleviates Widow’s Gout Pain
Madam Kadie Foday has not had an easy life trying to make a living for herself in rural Sierra Leone. At age 53, she has no children, and her husband has passed away leaving her a widow to fend for herself. To top it off, earlier this year she was suffering from a...
At Lerato Children’s Village, A handicapped Boy Named ‘Alone’ Is No Longer Alone
The Lerato Children’s Village, operated by our longtime partner in Zimbabwe, Shinga Development Trust, strives to fulfill the needs of orphaned and vulnerable children by offering a quality home environment and services that promote the physical, social, spiritual,...
Bread and Water for Africa® Continues to Ship Lifesaving Medical Supplies to Ethiopia Despite Supply Chain Challenges
For more than 10 years, Bread and Water for Africa® has been partnering with Haramaya University (HU), a top university system in Ethiopia which operates an extensive network of clinics and hospitals throughout the country, to support its efforts to provide free,...
Feeding Students at Seed School in Nairobi Slum and Creating Educational Opportunities for More
For the past few years, thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, we have been able to provide grant funding to the Seed School located in the slum of Kibera in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya to enable the school to provide free meals to more than 200...
Bread and Water for Africa® Celebrates Mother’s Day By Supporting Maternal Health in West Africa
This Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 8, there are thousands of children whose mothers are alive today because of the supporters of many organizations such as Bread and Water for Africa®. And by the same token there are thousands of mothers of infants and young children who...
Refurbished Abandoned Wells are Transforming Communities and Saving Lives in Tanzania Today!
Last summer, Richard Bataringaya, executive director of our partner in Tanzania, Action for Ngono Basin Reforestation (ACTNGONO) reached out to Bread and Water for Africa® with a request to help the residents of eight villages in the country’s Muleba District living...
At Bread and Water for Africa® Every Day is Earth Day
This Friday, April 22, is UNESCO’s (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 52nd annual Earth Day celebration with this year’s theme being “Invest In Our Planet.” “Earth Day 2022 is focused on accelerating solutions to combat our greatest...
Defend the Weak and the Fatherless; Uphold the Cause of The Poor and The Oppressed- Psalm 82:3: At The Karen Baird Children’s Home- Sierra Leone
As of right now, there are just over 100 orphaned and abandoned children living at the Karen Baird Children’s Home (KBCH) in Sierra Leone who know exactly how fortunate they are to receive three healthy, filling meals a day, have a roof over their head and a warm bed...
This World Health Day Bread and Water for Africa® Commits to Doing Even More to Prevent Illness and Treat the Sick in sub-Saharan Africa
Today, Thursday, April 7, is the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Day with this year’s theme of “Our planet, our health” was chosen “in the face of the current pandemic, a polluted planet, and an increasing incidence of diseases.” This call from the WHO...
World Water Day 2022: Groundwater – Making the Invisible Visible
Today, Tuesday, March 22, is the United Nations’ World Water Day with this year’s theme being Groundwater – Making the Invisible Visible, something Bread and Water for Africa® has been doing for decades since digging our first well in sub-Saharan Africa. “Groundwater...
A Borehole for Bakaba: Water for All in Rural Chad Village
The village of Bakaba in rural Chad is not easy to get to notes Kingsley Mbushou, project manager of our partner, Hope Services, headquartered in Cameroon. “It has a difficult road path that’s only easily accessible with particular car models and strong motorbikes,”...
‘Clean Water for All’ is The Goal of Spring Protection Program in Uganda
In rural central and western Uganda, there are more than 200 villages where residents have no choice but to get their water from unprotected springs that are more often than not contaminated by human and livestock waste where bacteria, viruses and parasites breed. In...
340 Projects… Bringing Safe and Sustainable Water Sources to Communities in sub-Saharan Africa!
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...
Bread and Water for Africa® Recognizes Importance of Multilingual Learning in Sub-Saharan African Countries
In the United States this year, Monday, February 21 is Presidents’ Day, but around the world it is also the United Nations’ International Mother Language Day. The day was established by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to...
Thanks to Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® Kabwata Orphanage Carries Out Mission of Feeding Children
At the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Lusaka, Zambia, orphaned and abandoned are cared for in a loving environment, and thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, are ensured of getting three healthy meals every day. Founder and director Angela...
Bread and Water for Africa® Food Self-Sustainability Program Transforms Lives in Sierra Leone
For three decades, Bread and Water for Africa® has been providing assistance to thousands of impoverished small-holder farmers trying to eke out not just a living – but a life – on their tiny plots of land in numerous countries in sub-Saharan Africa including...
Bread and Water for Africa® Continues Fight Against COVID-19 and Other Illnesses in sub-Saharan Africa
Although progress is being made against the COVID-19 pandemic in the sub-Saharan African countries where our partners operate hospitals and clinics, the situation remains dim for millions of children throughout sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report published in...
Bread and Water for Africa® Programs Support Mission of United Nations’ International Day of Education
Today, Monday, January 24, is the United Nations’ International Day of Education designed to be a platform to showcase the most important transformations that have to be nurtured to realize everyone’s fundamental right to education and build a more sustainable,...
African Children Bear the Brunt of Being Undernourished
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: From Life on the Streets as a Toddler to Promising High School Student
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...
What We Have on The Table For 2022
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...
Agriculture Programs Supported by Bread and Water for Africa® Teach Men and Women to Become Self-Sufficient Farmers
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...
Bread and Water for Africa® Provided Clean Water for 150,000+ Individuals This Year
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...
Education Is THE Key That Opens the Door for a Brighter Future for African Children
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...
Sierra Leone Healthcare Workers Counting on Us for PPE During COVID-19 Pandemic
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...
A Heartwarming Story from Malawi: A Wheelchair for Rita Who Can Now Move Independently Throughout Her Village
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...
World AIDS Day: Children Who Survive Their Parents and Siblings in Zambia
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...
Memorial Tribute to CB Richardson: Serving Selflessly for Four Decades
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...
Eat, Grow and Study
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...
Infant Twins Levi and Lily Found a Loving Home in the Lewa Children’s Home
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,...
It’s Harvest Time for Farmers in Africa, A Season Of Abundance
In addition to providing preventative health care services for infants, toddlers and their mothers and treatment, and clean water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and washing for rural villagers lacking access to safe sources, Bread and Water for Africa® prioritizes...
A Tribute to Eugene Lad Krizek
On December 9, 1988, Gene Krizek, founder of Christian Relief Services, announced at its board of directors meeting that “An appeal is going out this month to support Kip Keino’s orphanage.” That appeal ultimately led to the formation of Christian Relief Services’...
Every Day is World Food Day at Bread and Water for Africa®
This coming Saturday, October 16, is World Food Day, an international day celebrated every year to commemorate the date of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945. The day is celebrated widely by many other organizations concerned...
The Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Center: Growing Food for Healthy Growing Children
The Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Center in Zambia provides shelter, healthcare, an education, and other necessities including ensuring that the nearly 80 orphaned and abandoned children who call Kabwata home get three nutritious, filling meals every day – something...
Bread and Water for Africa® and Our AIM Foundation Partner to Construct Wells in Malawi; Planning on More in Coming Year
Earlier this year, one of our newest partners, the Our AIM Foundation (OAF), requested grant funding from Bread and Water for Africa® to assist the organization in the construction of seven boreholes (water wells) in rural villages in Malawi. OAF program manager...
COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: Tragically Getting Worse Before it Gets Better
As is the case in the United States, in the past few months, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been seeing an uptick in the numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases. In July, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reported that, according to the...
A Tribute to Addy Rose Krizek: A Mother to Many Africa’s Children
Dear Bread and Water for Africa® Inc. Family, The passing of Adeline “Addy” Rose Krizek this past weekend has brought messages of grief from not only those who knew her well in her community of Alexandria, Virginia, where she was revered for her selfless service to...
We Strive to Close the Digital Divide and Illiteracy Gap in sub-Saharan Africa
Since 1967, the United National Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) International Literacy Day has taken place on September 8 to remind the public of the importance of being able to read and write as a matter of dignity and human rights, and...
Young Alusine Selling Surplus Rice in the Sierra Leonean Community He Loves Thanks to the Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®
At Bread and Water for Africa®, we don’t just want to give a man (or woman) a bag of rice to eat for a week or two and then go hungry again, we want him to learn to grow it, and how to sell it, in order to build a life of self-sufficiency for himself and his family....
More Than Ever, Clean water is Crucial at the Taninnahum Health Center and Community
In 2019, Bread and Water for Africa® began our partnership with Rural Youth Development Organization – Sierra Leone by helping to fund the rehabilitation of its health clinic in the small village of Mokoba, the only medical facility in the area that provides free and...
























































































































