Any school needs classrooms, a library, and a laboratory. It also needs a kitchen to prepare the food for hungry students, as well as a place for them to gather to sit and enjoy their meal break in between their classwork. Such as the Kebeneti Secondary School in...
For one brief, heartbreaking period in their young lives all that the three brothers Wilson, Samuel and Joseph had was themselves after unbelievably being abandoned by their mother. And it was on a dark, rainy evening in Kenya when a neighbor heard their desperate...
In Zambia, Angela Miyanda takes in the country’s most vulnerable children and provides them with a loving home. But equally important is the fact that in doing so, she also prepares them for the day they will walk out when they must be ready to live on their own –...
While many organizations that help orphans in Africa work to address critical issues like clean water, healthcare, poverty, and education, millions of children remain highly vulnerable. When there is so much to do, it can seem like a long-enduring uphill battle. We...
Tanzania faces a significant orphan crisis, with an estimated one million children and youth living without one or both parents, according to the Tanzania National Census in 2022, a number that has likely only risen in the past three years, primarily due to factors...
At Bread and Water for Africa®, nothing fills our hearts with joy more than seeing the smiling faces of orphaned, abandoned and other vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa who have found loving homes where, thanks to our supporters, they are sheltered and fed,...
In Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe right now there are hundreds of orphaned and abandoned children who have a warm bed to sleep in at night, are receiving three meals a day and are attending school without fear of being turned away due to a lack of ability to pay...
Of all the programs that Bread and Water for Africa® supports, including WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) projects, agriculture and food self-sustainability, education and healthcare, it is orphan care that is nearest and dearest to our hearts which melt when we...
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...
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...
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...
Last summer, Richard Bataringaya, executive director of our partner in Tanzania, Action for Ngono Basin Reforestation (ACTNGONO) reached out to Bread and Water for Africa® with a request to help the residents of eight villages in the country’s Muleba District living...
We know the coronavirus crisis spreads throughout the world, it is increasingly clear that people in Muleba, Tanzania with the least access to clean water will feel the most dramatic effects. Action for Ngono Basin Reforestation (ACT-NGONO) in Muleba, Tanzania is...
Action for Ngono Basin Reforestation (ACT – NGONO) operates in the Muleba District in Tanzania with the goal of refurbishing non-functional water wells in the district this year. ACT – NGONO learned of Bread and Water for Africa® online and approached us...