Income Generation Program
OUR WORK
THE CHALLENGES
Give a Person Cassava and Groundnuts and They Eat for Day; Teach Them How to Grow It, and They Eat (and Feed Their Children) For Their Lifetime
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...
Agriculture Programs Supported by Bread and Water for Africa® Teach Men and Women to Become Self-Sufficient Farmers
Surely everyone has heard the oft-quoted proverb: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” At Bread and Water for Africa® we take that maxim a step further through our agriculture programs which allow us to...
Young Alusine Selling Surplus Rice in the Sierra Leonean Community He Loves Thanks to the Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®
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....