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...
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’...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...