Every story has a beginning. For many communities across Africa, their stories began with hardship and uncertainty. But with your help, these narratives are being rewritten into tales of hope, resilience, and transformation.
Welcome to our Success Stories—a testament to what we can achieve together.
Orphan care
Mumba’s Story: From the Kabwata Orphanage to Medical University Graduate
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...
Lute: Ready to Take the ‘Next Step Forward’ into Adulthood with Opening of Hair Salon in Zambia
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,...
Bookbags, School Supplies Lead to ‘Independent Members of Society’ for Kenyan Orphans
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...
Books for Hope: The Kabwata Orphanage Library Project
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,...
12-Year-Old Girl’s Journey to Support Her Family Could Have Been Tragic Without Kabwata Orphanage in Zambia
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...
African Children Bear the Brunt of Being Undernourished
At Bread and Water for Africa® our primary concern is for children who have been orphaned or left destitute and have nowhere else to turn but to our partners in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Zambia who take them them in and consider them as if their own children. Among them is...
John: From Life on the Streets as a Toddler to Promising High School Student
John was abandoned by his own mother to fend for himself on the streets of Lusaka, Zambia at the tender age of just 3 years old. Authorities rescued him from an uncertain future (to say the least) and brought him to the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre, supported...
Infant Twins Levi and Lily Found a Loving Home in the Lewa Children’s Home
In the 1970s, Phyllis Keino, who would eventually become the international spokesperson for Bread and Water for Africa®, began fostering and taking in destitute and abandoned children in the surrounding communities around the town of Eldoret, Kenya. In December 1988,...
Lerato Children’s Home: Empowering Melissa and Others to Reach Their Full Potential
Bread and Water for Africa® longtime partner Shinga Development Trust in Zimbabwe, which operates the Lerato Children’s Village, was founded with the lofty goal of meeting the basic needs of orphaned and vulnerable children by providing them with a home where they...
Putting Smiles on Orphans’ Faces in Zambia
At the Kabawata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Zambia, our longtime partner Angela Miyanda. Its founder and director, is caring for 62 children –36 girls and 26 boys – all orphaned or abandoned and brought to her by the country’s Department of Social Welfare. Among...
Health
Back on His Feet: How Timely Care Helped James Provide for His Family
James Senesie, a dedicated 40-year-old construction laborer from Mowoto Village, works tirelessly to provide for his loving wife and three children every day. While lifting heavy blocks at a construction site, he encountered a painful setback—severe muscle spasms that...
Life-Saving Care for Vulnerable Children
In August 2025, 23-year-old Hannah Kainesie experienced a parent's worst nightmare when her little one faced severe dehydration due to persistent diarrhea. Residing in Mogbevo Village with her husband and two young children, Hannah navigates the challenges of...
From Fear to Control: Brima’s Journey with Diabetes
After months of experiencing unexplained weight loss, fatigue, and frequent urination, 55-year-old Brima Abdulai, a dedicated rice farmer from Mofwe Village, embarked on a three-mile journey to the Kaniya Health Center in search of answers. There, Nurse Francess...
When Medicine Means Survival: A Lifeline for Ethiopia’s Most Vulnerable
Hospitals in Ethiopia, while differing from those in the United States, have a significant impact on their communities by providing essential healthcare services. These facilities are crucial for delivering lifesaving medications and care to impoverished farmers and...
Thanks to You: Kagbaima Health Center Reborn Through Collective Generosity
Last September, we reported on the great need for the rehabilitation of the Kagbaima Health Center in Sierra Leone, where thousands live on an income of less than $1 a day, and a $10 medical bill would equal two weeks’ pay. The Kagbaima Health Center, the only medical...
On This World Health Day, Hundreds of Sierra Leoneans Are Healthier and Happier This Year Thanks to the Partnership Between the Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, Rural Youth Development Organization-Sierra Leone and MAP International
This year, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Day, April 7, will kick off “a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health through its campaign “Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures” to urge governments and the health community to ramp up efforts to...
Medicine Provided to Sierra Leone Health Center by Bread and Water for Africa® Alleviates Widow’s Gout Pain
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...
Medicines Shipped to Sierra Leone Reduced High Blood Pressure for Nyanwo
Bread and Water for Africa® partner Rural Youth Development Organization - Sierra Leone (RYDO-SL) has the primary goal “to provide free and affordable health services for rural people, including community-based health education, and services to families and...
Caring for the Most Vulnerable: An Impact Story from Mokoba Village-Sierra Leone
Elizabeth lives in a rural, remote region of Sierra Leone where free, or even affordable, healthcare would be practically nonexistent without the Mokoba Health Center, operated by Bread and Water for Africa® partner there, Rural Youth Development Organization – Sierra...
The Survival of My Twins and Me- Mokoba Clinic, Sierra Leone
Jeneba is grateful to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® for making it possible to for us to provide funding for our partner Rural Youth Development Organization Sierra Leone enabling us to renovations its Mokoba clinic where she gave birth to twins. In...
Education
The Making ‘A Nurse With a Difference’ in Chad Thanks to the Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®
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...
School Fees Program in Chad Enables Students ‘To Trace a Beautiful Path to Their Future’
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...
Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® School Fees Assistance Program Described as ‘Guardian Angels’ by Zimbabwean Student
For children living in sub-Saharan African countries such as Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Zimbabwe and elsewhere, nothing is more important for them to build a successful life than for them to get an education – a fact they know well! Unlike...
Feeding Program in Kibera is a Gateway to the Aspiring Scientist and Artist
Setric was born in the Nairobi slum of Kibera in 2008, and dire poverty is all she has ever known in her 12 years of life. But, despite all the challenges and roadblocks placed in her path due to the circumstances far beyond her control, the young girl on the verge of...
Education is the Future!
Kamera’s mother and father are hardworking and just like all parents in Sierra Leone and around the world only want the best for their beloved 11-year-old son. Even with a relatively good job as a police officer, and with the extra money brought into the household by...
Transforming the Lives of Children in Kibera
Kuda was born in the small Kenyan village of Jera in 2007 and never knew her father who left before she was born. It was a struggle for her mother raising Kuda and her three siblings to ensure all the children got enough to eat. “This was a big challenge for the...
Joseph Ekidor – Making His Way in the World with Educational Support
Joseph Ekidor is no longer a child at age 19, but a young adult looking to make his way in the world as he is on the verge of completing his secondary school education. It’s a bright future made possible only through his hard work and determination, the loving home he...
Agriculture/Food Self-sufficiency
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...
Greetings and a Grateful Thank You from Agnes at Kabwata Orphanage, Zambia to the Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®
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...
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....