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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...