“The Democratic Republic of the Congo is suffering from a severe drinking water crisis.” Those stark words came in July from Lucien Beele, executive director of one of our newest WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) partners located in the Democratic Republic of the...
In Zimbabwe, right now, there are 82 primary and secondary school students who are relying on the support of Bread and Water for Africa® to enable them to realize their dream of attending school – and completing their education – their only hope of a life out of dire...
For 200 fortunate Kenya children living in the Nairobi slum of Kibera getting an education at the Seed School not only expands their minds, giving them hope for escape one of the largest slums on the African continent, but also improves their nutritional health. Since...
Although the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Lusaka, Zambia, has had a library for the orphaned and destitute children and youth living there for many years, its materials were what Sima Miyanda described as “old, worn and out of date.” That was its status...
As with all the programs supported by Bread and Water for Africa®, our ultimate goal is to help our partners become self-sufficient by growing enough grains, vegetables, and other staple products to provide enough food for the children and families they serve and...
In 12 small, rural communities in Sierra Leone there are 50,902 girls and boys, women and men who are is desperate need of access to safe, clean water. At one time – decades ago – the residents of the villages had clean water coming fresh from the ground, but a lack...
Acute malnutrition among pregnant women and girls and breastfeeding mothers has increased by 25 percent in recent 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 Chad,...
Bananas, whether “table” bananas for eating out of hand, in cereal or ice cream splits, and the cooking banana (plantains) are an extremely nutritional food, notes the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Banana plants are also “very easy to grow...
About two decades ago, Mumba was born in a Zambian prison. The mother did not want the child to grow up in prison because of the environment was not ideal for a child, and the extended family were not anywhere close for help. Having no choice, not long after he was...
After hearing from Rev. Sr. Mary Peter Namasinga/Local Superior at the Kyasira Home of Hope for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children on the shores of Lake Victoria in Entebbe, Uganda, in October 2023 about a devastating flood in 2020 that left 62 children and their...
Millions living in impoverished sub-Saharan African countries face daunting challenges on a daily basis for their very survival, with perhaps the availability of clean drinking water and food security at the top of the list. However, besides water and food, access to...
Earlier this spring, we at Bread and Water for Africa® received a letter from Debora Mkweya, Girls’ Matron at the Konzere Primary School in Ngabu, Malawi, a small town of about 7,000, located about 60 miles from the nation’s second-largest city of Blantyre to thank us...
This Mother’s Day Bread and Water for Africa® is recognizing Angela Miyanda, founder and director of the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Zambia is our second-longest serving partner. It was in 1998, just one year after the incorporation of Bread and Water for...
Water is the essence of life, a fundamental human need without which survival is impossible. Yet, access to this basic necessity remains out of reach for millions of people across the globe, particularly in underserved African communities. The dire implications of...
Monday, April 22, is Earth Day, held annually on this date since 1970 to serve “as a reminder of the importance of environmental conservation and sustainability, encouraging us to come together and take action for a healthier planet and brighter future,” states...
In Malawi there is a small village named Mseka which is located in an extremely hard-to-reach area due to poor road infrastructure, and the hundreds of residents who call it home must travel a long distance, oftentimes ill and on foot, to the nearest health clinic....
But for the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, the residents of the area surrounding the Kebeneti SDA Dispensary in rural Kenya would not have convenient access to affordable healthcare in their community. Bread and Water for Africa® established a partnership...
Sunday, April 7, is the World Health Organization's (WHO) World Health Day with the theme: “My health, my right” aiming to address the health challenges caused by a myriad of ways from diseases and disasters, to conflicts causing death, pain, hunger and psychological...
This year, the theme for the United Nations’ World Water Day campaign is “Water for Peace,” which focuses on the critical role water plays in the stability and prosperity of the world. As the UN notes, “When water is scarce or polluted, or when people have unequal or...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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.”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...