Longtime Bread and Water for Africa® partner Esther Ndichafah, CEO of Hope Services, may be located in Cameroon, but that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t care equally for the children and youth of neighboring country Chad as much as she does for those in her own country...
The United Nations’ International Youth Day has been recognized each August 12 since it was first observed in 2000 and designated to draw attention to a given set of cultural and legal issues surrounding youth. The theme of this year’s International Youth Day is...
At Bread and Water for Africa® among our missions is to provide medicines, and medical supplies and equipment to hospitals and clinics in sub-Saharan African countries where access to healthcare is practically nonexistent for those who have little or no ability to pay...
July 18 marks what would’ve been Nelson Mandela’s 103rd birthday. The date is also recognized around the world as Nelson Mandela International Day by the United Nations which is asking people around the world to make a difference in their communities. This year’s...
For children living in sub-Saharan African countries such as Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Zimbabwe and elsewhere, nothing is more important for them to build a successful life than for them to get an education – a fact they know well! Unlike...
For far too many children in Kenya, the opportunity to attend school is a privilege, not a guarantee, and during the worst of the COVID-19 and schools were closed throughout the country last year and the first part of this year, they were devasted in a myriad of ways,...
While we in the United States are seeing hope that the COVID-19 pandemic is waning throughout the country – particularly in states with high vaccination rates – sadly, that is not the case in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. And today it is with heavy hearts that...
On behalf of hundreds of residents of the small villages of Lukaaka and Mawonvu in central Uganda, we at Bread and Water for Africa® want to express our heartfelt gratitude to the federal employees who supported our spring protection program through their Combined...
If something works, such as how for years the Baraka Farm has been providing support to our longtime partner, the Lewa Children’s Home in Eldoret, Kenya (founded by our international spokesperson Phyllis Keino), we strive to replicate it elsewhere in the sub-Saharan...
From the earliest days of Bread and Water for Africa® our primary focus has been providing safe, loving homes for thousands of orphaned and abandoned children in Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and most recently, Sierra Leone. Thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for...
We know the coronavirus crisis spreads throughout the world, it is increasingly clear that people in Muleba, Tanzania with the least access to clean water will feel the most dramatic effects. Action for Ngono Basin Reforestation (ACT-NGONO) in Muleba, Tanzania is...
In the 46 countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) there are just over 1 billion people (14 percent of the world’s population), the vast majority in dire poverty which has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The first confirmed case of COVID-19 was confirmed...
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, on this Sunday, May 9, sadly there are millions of children who do not have a mother to thank for bringing them into the world, feeding them when they’re hungry and comforting them when their sick, and most importantly, loving them with...
A year ago, schools throughout Kenya were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and that included the Seed School located in the largest slum in East Africa — Kibera on the outskirts of Nairobi. For more than 100 students who attend the Seed School not only were their...
What started as an idea at an UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) conference in 1969, became what we know today, Thursday, April 22, as Earth Day, is now observed -- 51 years following the very first celebration in 1970 -- in...
We at Bread and Water for Africa® fear what would have happened to 7-year-old Usif when he was severely burned over 70 percent of his small body without the nearby Rokel Clinic where he received free treatment for his injuries. Rev. Francis Mambu, executive director...
Today, April 7, Bread and Water for Africa® supports and applauds the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Day, which has been held every April 7 since 1950 to draw worldwide attention to the major importance of global health. This year’s theme, “Building a...
Bread and Water for Africa® partner Rural Youth Development Organization - Sierra Leone (RYDO-SL) has the primary goal “to provide free and affordable health services for rural people, including community-based health education, and services to families and...
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, every single day there are millions of Africans who have no choice but to fetch untreated water from contaminated sources for drinking, cooking, bathing, and washing. But thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, for more...
In the Mityana, Luwero, Kiboga, Nakaseke, Nakasongola, Mubenede, and other districts in Uganda, a year ago there was an estimated 3,000 people living in 15 villages who had no source of clean, safe water for all their daily needs, reported David Ssagala, manager of...
Action for Ngono Basin Reforestation (ACT-NGONO) operates in the Muleba District in Tanzania with the goal of refurbishing non-functional water wells in the district this year. ACT-NGONO learned of Bread and Water for Africa® online and approached us about the...
Access to clean, safe water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and washing is a key determinant for infectious disease control and prevention, however, a 2020 study reports that in sub-Saharan Africa nearly 300 million people live there in water-stressed environments....
Elizabeth lives in a rural, remote region of Sierra Leone where free, or even affordable, healthcare would be practically nonexistent without the Mokoba Health Center, operated by Bread and Water for Africa® partner there, Rural Youth Development Organization – Sierra...
This Sunday, February 21, is International Mother Language Day which was designated by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999 as part of a broader initiative “to promote the preservation and protection of all languages...
For years, Bread and Water for Africa® has been providing medicines, and medical supplies, and equipment to our partners in Africa who operate clinics and hospitals offering free and low-cost healthcare to tens of thousands of infants and children, young mothers, and...
The Centers for Disease Control has issued travel advisories for Americans considering traveling to Zambia and Zimbabwe where Bread and Water for Africa® partners the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre and the Lerato Children’s Village, respectively, operate. Of...
Bread and Water for Africa® longtime partner Shinga Development Trust in Zimbabwe, which operates the Lerato Children’s Village, was founded with the lofty goal of meeting the basic needs of orphaned and vulnerable children by providing them with a home where they...
At the Kabawata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Zambia, our longtime partner Angela Miyanda. Its founder and director, is caring for 62 children –36 girls and 26 boys – all orphaned or abandoned and brought to her by the country’s Department of Social Welfare. Among...
With the COVID -19 pandemic causing significant negative impacts in Zimbabwe, including and especially hunger in the impoverished country, this fall Margaret Makambira, founder and director of our longtime partner there, the Shinga Development Trust and its Lerato...
While 2020 was a challenging year for all of us in the United States, so was the case in the sub-Saharan African countries where we work. While we are thankful that the COVID-19 pandemic has not caused a severe outbreak resulting in tens of thousands of deaths as...
While 2020 has been a challenging year for us all, the global COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the ability of our partners and the people living in the sub-Saharan African countries they serve – including Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Zambia,...
We are honored, and humbled, to wish our visionary founder, Gene Krizek, a hearty 93rd Happy Birthday. A former Congressional Administrative Assistant, a retired Foreign Service Officer and a retired Colonel in the United States Air Force, Eugene “Gene” Krizek served...
Children and youth in Zimbabwe understand all too well that being able to go to school and getting an education is their pathway out of a life of dire poverty, menial labor, and a successful future. And thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® such as...
For more than two decades, we at Bread and Water for Africa® have remained committed to providing clean, safe drinking water for tens of thousands of children, parents and elders in sub-Saharan Africa. Over the years, we have dug wells in countries including...
Setric was born in the Nairobi slum of Kibera in 2008, and dire poverty is all she has ever known in her 12 years of life. But, despite all the challenges and roadblocks placed in her path due to the circumstances far beyond her control, the young girl on the verge of...
In January, thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, we were able to provide a grant to provide two meals each school day to 125 children attending the Seed School in the Nairobi slum of Kibera for the entire academic term. But that was before the...
In addition to, of course, food security and access to clean, safe water, addressing the lack of adequate healthcare is the most pressing need in Sub-Saharan Africa today, especially in light of the global COVID-19 pandemic. In the impoverished country of Sierra...
Earlier this year, before the COVID-19 pandemic had been making inroads into sub-Saharan African countries such as Uganda, Bread and Water for Africa® agreed to support construction of 15 of our partner there, Bega Kwa Bega’s (BkB), water protection projects. The...
Rice is among the most common staple foods in Africa, and thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® our partner in Sierra Leone, Faith Healing Development Organization (FHDO), has been able to significantly increase its rice production significantly....
Today, October 16, is the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation’s World Food Day which recognizes the sad fact of steady increase in hunger since 2014 together with rising obesity due to poor nutrition, clearly indicates the need to accelerate and...
Jeneba is grateful to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® for making it possible to for us to provide funding for our partner Rural Youth Development Organization Sierra Leone enabling us to renovations its Mokoba clinic where she gave birth to twins. In...
Medicines, medical supplies and equipment are always in short supply in the rural regions of sub-Saharan African countries, and with the COVID-19 pandemic continuing its spread throughout the continent these items are needed now more than ever. This month, we are...
Our longtime partner in Cameroon, Hope Services Ministry International (HSMI), was founded in 1994 to provide humanitarian services including free and low-cost health care to tens of thousands of children, women, prisoners and vulnerable people in general. Thanks to...
Medicine Distribution to Health Centers in Sierra Leone “While so much about the virus and how it operates remains unclear, sub-Saharan Africa so far has dodged a deadly wave of coronavirus cases.” — The Washington Post, September 22, 2020 While that may be true in...
In Sub-Saharan African countries such as Sierra Leone, the coronavirus pandemic has closed schools for months and because the vast majority have been unable to make the transition to online education, school closures have widening the pre-existing gap between how much...
Today, September 8, is the United Nations’ International Literacy Day which this year focuses on “Literacy teaching and learning in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.” The theme highlights literacy learning in a lifelong learning perspective, and therefore, mainly...
Dear Supporter of Bread and Water for Africa®, September 5 is the United Nations’ International Day of Charity which was declared by the UN General Assembly in 2012 to commemorate the anniversary of the passing away of Mother Teresa who devoted her life to helping the...
Community members outside the Mokoba clinic wearing reusable face masks made by a local tailor with materials provided by Bread and Water for Africa. Throughout the African continent, which had been spared thebrunt of COVID-19 pandemic in terms of confirmed cases and...
Bishop John Yambasu of Sierra Leone gives the sermon during morning worship at the 2016 United Methodist General Conference in Portland, Ore. File photo by Mike DuBose, UM News. It is with personal, heartfelt sadness that I must report the sudden, tragic death of...
At Bread and Water for Africa®, we have been promoting foodself-sustainability in Africa for over two decades. The COVID-19 era has increased the need more than ever. The COVID-19 outbreak in Zambia is having a devastating impact on the economy of the country, and on...
Imagine you are an 8-year-old whose mother tells you to watch over your 3-year-old sister until she comes back. That’s what happened to Elizabeth, however her mother never returned leaving the two girls to fend for themselves in a small village in Zambia....
The 25-year-old woman from the small village of Gandorhun in Sierra Leone had just lost her husband when she learned she was pregnant and was struggling to care for her two children. “Life had become difficult for her as she also had to take care of her pregnancy,”...
It is what we have been fearing for months ever since the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world – the coronavirus virus making significant inroads into the African continent. “After months in which Africa escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic as the global center...
Photo caption Mr. Mandela with a child on his lap, talking to her. Taken during meetings about HIV/AIDS in November 2004. © NMF Photo/Oryx Media, Benny Gool. Today, July 18, we commend the United Nations for recognizing the life and legacy of South African freedom...
Although the global coronavirus outbreak has not struck Sub-Saharan African countries like Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe as hard as the United States and Europe, the impact is still being felt. In Zimbabwe, Margaret Makambira, founder and director of the Lerato Children’s...
The city of Harbu in rural Ethiopia is home to nearly 190,000 residents who survive by growing what they can — such as rice beans, peas and lentils — on their half hectare (about 1.2 acres) tract of land. Many also raise livestock including cattle, sheep, goats,...
Among our newest partners is the Rural Youth Development Organization Sierra Leone (RYDO-SL) which has been serving impoverished communities in the Bumpe Ngao Chiefdom of the Bo District in the country, including operating a health clinic and pharmacy in the village...
Photo Caption Nurse Koroma is pictured second from left in the pink and white dress. Elizabeth Koroma is among those selfless and dedicated healthcare workers around the world fighting the coronavirus who surely deserve the title of “hero.” Elizabeth was not only a...
Kady is a 75-year-old widow living in the small village of Tenithun in rural Sierra Leone who since the passing of her husband six years ago has been surviving as a substance farmer, depending on the food she grows for herself and her son on her small tract of land....
Nearly 10 years ago, the World Health Organization estimated that there were 15 million people in Ethiopia with disabilities, representing close to 20 percent of the population. And according to the country’s Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, 95 percent of those...
As of May 26, there have been 754 confirmed coronavirus cases and 44 deaths due to COVID-19 in Sierra Leone, but the impact of the global pandemic in the country has been far worse than the numbers suggest. Businesses have been forced to close, and as during the...
Among our newest partners is the Rural Youth Development Organization Sierra Leone (RYDO-SL) which has been serving impoverished communities in the Bumpe Ngao Chiefdom of the Bo District in the country. “The goal of RYDO-SL is to transform communities by building...
Photo credit/Deutsch Welle In the Sub-Saharan African countries where Bread and Water for Africa® works, health care systems are underfunded and poorly equipped; climate change has caused everything from severe drought to cyclones, and food and clean water are in...
For the employees of the federal government, the Combined Federal Campaign allows them to pledge support to approved charitable organizations such as Bread and Water for Africa®. Today, in the midst of a global pandemic which has put a severe strain on resources in...
Angela Miyanda, founder and executive director of our longtime partner in Zambia, the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre, just reported to us some troubling news about the situation in her country: “The numbers of the COVID-19 have been rising very fast, reaching...
Their names are Darrel, Ema, Makanaka, Nyarai and Margaret and they among the dozens of orphaned and abandoned African children who have found loving homes at children’s homes — Lewa Children’s Home in Kenya, Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Zambia, and the...
For over20 years, Bread and Water for Africa® has been working in Sub-Saharan African countries such as Sierra Leone, Kenya, Cameroon, Ethiopia, and Zambia to ensure that expectant mothers are able to safely give birth to healthy baby girls and boys.hos Through our...
Mother’s Day isn’t just a day to celebrate our moms…it’s a day to celebrate our supermoms. You know who they are. Supermoms are the fearless heroes whose dedication and hard work has helped families across the world avoid hunger, illiteracy, and poverty. Cheers to you...
Mission Continues to Combat Global COVID-19 Pandemic is #GivingTuesdayNow, a new global day of giving and unity created as an emergency response to the unprecedented need caused by COVID-19. As the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic begins sweeping through the...
Lute and Kabus arrived at the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Center in Zambia at the ages of two and three, respectively, both from very difficult backgrounds. Lute lost her parents, and Kabus was abandoned by an emotionally disabled mother. After they completed high...
In the past week, Africa’s number of coronavirus cases soared by more than 40 percent, “stoking concerns that the continent could become the epicenter of the pandemic at a time when hunger is rising and doctors fear a resurgence of malaria deaths,” reported The...
In the years and decades to come, Africa will be the continent most impacted by climate change even though it has contributed the least, according to the Earth Day Network. The 54 countries of Africa emit only less than 4 percent of global greenhouse gases, compared...
For more than 20 years, the primary mission Bread and Water for Africa® has been to find loving homes for orphaned, abandoned and destitute children throughout the continent, starting with the Lewa Children’s Home in Kenya, Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in...
For over 25 years, we at Bread and Water for Africa® are keenly aware of the need for clean water for children and families in sub-Saharan Africa where entire communities risk serious illness, and even death, drinking water from contaminated sources. That’s why since...
These are the faces of the children at the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Zambia that keep us awake at night, particularly in these times of a worldwide pandemic which is just now beginning to strike the continent of Africa. Although as of April 2, the...
For years, Bread and Water for Africa® has constructed water wells and supported clean water development projects to provide life’s most vital resource. That mission is now more important than ever as communities throughout Africa lack clean water sources to wash...
Thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, our most recent water well project was completed in Ethiopia. Thanks to all of you , as well one particularly generous supporter, Joseph Grush and his granddaughter, Alexis, more than 160 households in the rural...
For many years, Richard “Dick” Landis has been partnering with Bread and Water for Africa® to help improve the lives of Kenyan children. First was his support of the Lewa Children’s Home, the Kipkeino Primary School and Baraka Farm, all integrated under the direction...
Although providing our partners with what they need has become more challenging since the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19), rest assured, Bread and Water for Africa® continues to do everything in our power to make sure basic needs are met in the African countries...
Over the past few weeks, all of us here at Bread and Water for Africa® have been amazed by the amount of support we have received from people like you. Your generosity not only inspires us, but gives hope to so many African families, especially children, in the midst...
As the coronavirus spreads across the globe, most of the headlines on the deadly pandemic have focused on China, the United States and Europe, but as the World Health Organization reported on March 12, there are more than 100 cases recorded in 11 countries in Africa....
At Shinga Development Trust’s Lerato Children’s Home, nearly two dozen orphaned and abandoned children were living in darkness this past year. The country has struggled with crippling, rolling blackouts, leaving the children and millions of Zimbabweans without...
(Pictured: Women and their children with nurses at the Mokoba Health Center) Thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, some 5,600 Sierra Leoneans, including 2,200 boys and girls, received healthcare services at the newly-renovated Mokoba Health Center...
The need for assistance throughout Africa is great, and this year we hope to continue to be able to provide help in a variety of ways to villages and communities where it’s needed most as we have been for more than 20 years. This year, we hope to ship containers...
Abel is a poor farmer who lives in the Kailahun District in rural Sierra Leone. Last fall, Abel noticed that his foot was starting to swell, but he initially ignored it believing he could not afford to seek medical treatment even as it continued to become more and...
Kamera’s mother and father are hardworking and just like all parents in Sierra Leone and around the world only want the best for their beloved 11-year-old son. Even with a relatively good job as a police officer, and with the extra money brought into the household by...
Kuda was born in the small Kenyan village of Jera in 2007 and never knew her father who left before she was born. It was a struggle for her mother raising Kuda and her three siblings to ensure all the children got enough to eat. “This was a big challenge for the...
As one can see in our 2019 Annual Report, thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® we were able to accomplish much in the past year. This includes providing loving homes for hundreds of orphaned and abandoned children in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Zambia,...
The Rural Youth Development Organization of Sierra Leone (RYDO-SL) was established in 1996 “to transform and revitalize the lives of the marginalized and oppressed populations in the communities” of the impoverished country in several ways, including agriculture. Its...
Education is one of the primary areas of Bread and Water for Africa® partner, Bega kwa Bega (BkB) work in Uganda. One of the important education projects that BkB does is to provide textbooks and reading materials to schools in remote areas of the country. “During...
Although Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday, that does not mean that dozens of children living at the Lewa Children’s Home do not have plenty to be thankful for every single day. Thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, and of course “Mama”...
In Kibera, the largest slum in Kenya and one of the largest in the world, children go hungry as they live in squalor and their parents, if they have any, have no means of buying food for their children, many who are forced to beg or scavenge for something, anything,...
At the Lerato Children’s Home in Zimbabwe, schoolchildren do their homework in the evenings by the light of kerosene lamps which are widely used for lighting in rural areas of Africa where there is no electricity. Not only does the low light damage the children’s...
In the Bahir Dar region of Ethiopia, there are 31,904 boys and girls attending primary and preparatory schools and are in desperate need of current text and reference books. And thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® 22,000 books in a 40-foot shipping...
Bread and Water for Africa® Executive Director Beth Tessema recently returned from an extended visit to Kenya to meet with Phyllis Keino, our international spokesperson and founder and director of the Lewa Children’s Home, to evaluate its progress and conduct a needs...
Last March, a catastrophic cyclone by the name of Cyclone Idai devastated portions of Zimbabwe leaving hundreds dead and many more missing. “In some parts of these regions whole families were swept away by the water that had flooded the rivers or were submerged in mud...
The Rural Youth Development Organization – Sierra Leone (RYDO-SL) operates the Mokoba Health Center in a rural region where most of the residents of the area are subsistence farmers with an average number of six children who struggle simply to survive on what they can...
Joseph Ekidor is no longer a child at age 19, but a young adult looking to make his way in the world as he is on the verge of completing his secondary school education. It’s a bright future made possible only through his hard work and determination, the loving home he...
18-year-old Ann Tiyaa is a Form Four (senior) at Sambut Secondary School in Eldoret, Kenya, who has made great strides in her life. For one thing, she has accomplished something only few children and youth are able to do in Kenya – attend 12 years of school and poised...
Abomvomba is a small village of about 650 residents about 22 miles from the much larger city of Ebolowa in Cameroon, places it’s likely very few Americans have ever heard of. Recently at Bread and Water for Africa® we first heard of Abomvomba from our partner in the...
Moye had been living a happy life in the small Sierra Leonean village of Kojowolo before the deadly Ebola outbreak of 2014 tragically took the lives of his wife and their two children, leaving the 62-widower all alone in the empty house. He managed to carry on his...
This month, Bread and Water for Africa® executive director Beth Tessema is spending several weeks in East Africa developing new partnerships in order to enable us to provide assistance to more and more Africans, particularly children. In Nairobi, Kenya, Beth toured...
Little Nyarai was only two years old when she was brought to Bread and Water for Africa® partner in Zambia, the Kabwata Orphange and Transit Centre. She is too young to understand why she is there, but old enough to ask “where’s my mommy?” The sad and tragic fact is...
It is with great relief that we are pleased to report good news on the agriculture front from Sierra Leone that the 2019 planting season started on time! Bread and Water for Africa® has long supported the agricultural operations of our partner in the country, Faith...
An obstetric ultrasound is a critical tool in ensuring a fetus is healthy and developing normally – and thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® one is on the way to a newly-opened hospital in Cameroon. Recently we were proud to announce – again thanks...
Thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® the poultry farm in Sierra Leone operated by our partner there, Faith Healing Development Organization (FHDO), is operating in full swing, just like Old MacDonald’s Farm with “here a cluck, there a cluck,...
With assistance from Bread and Water for Africa®, our partner organization in Cameroon, Hope Services, was able to construct a clinic in the city of Douala. And with that project completed we are now on to our task of filling it with the medicines, medical supplies...
In Zambia, Angela Miyanda takes in the country’s most vulnerable children and provides them with a loving home. But equally important is the fact that in doing so, she also prepares them for the day they will walk out when they must be ready to live on their own –...
We at Bread and Water for Africa® began to get to know him as a 2-year-old toddler when he was brought to the Lewa Children’s Home in Eldoret, Kenya, and into the loving arms of Lewa founder and executive director Phyllis Keino after being abandoned by his mother....
For one brief, heartbreaking period in their young lives all that the three brothers Wilson, Samuel and Joseph had was themselves after unbelievably being abandoned by their mother. And it was on a dark, rainy evening in Kenya when a neighbor heard their desperate...
Any school needs classrooms, a library, and a laboratory. It also needs a kitchen to prepare the food for hungry students, as well as a place for them to gather to sit and enjoy their meal break in between their classwork. Such as the Kebeneti Secondary School in...
Abomvomba is a small village of about 650 residents about 22 miles from the much larger city of Ebolowa in Cameroon, places it’s likely very few Americans have ever heard of. Recently at Bread and Water for Africa® we first heard of Abomvomba from our partner in the...
