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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...