Bread and Water for Africa® first began working with Bega kwa Bega (BkB - Shoulder to Shoulder in Kiswahili) in Uganda in 2020 to construct concrete barriers around fresh water spring sites, which are necessary to prevent animal and human contamination to protect the...
For nearly his whole life, 40-year-old Denis Kiyaga, of Namagoma Village in Uganda, risked his life every time he took a drink of water from unsafe water sources in his community. But that was before Bread and Water for Africa® stepped up to protect the village’s...
In Uganda, nearly one-third of the population of more than 48 million (16 million individuals) lack access to clean water. In addition, around one-third of children live in households that are described as moderately water-deprived, with 20 percent being “severely...
In Uganda, “poor sanitation and hygiene, as well as unequal access to safe drinking water, make thousands of children very sick and at risk of death.” So says UNICEF, noting that WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) “are essential for life and health, but they are...
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...
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...
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...
In rural central and western Uganda, there are more than 200 villages where residents have no choice but to get their water from unprotected springs that are more often than not contaminated by human and livestock waste where bacteria, viruses and parasites breed. In...
On behalf of hundreds of residents of the small villages of Lukaaka and Mawonvu in central Uganda, we at Bread and Water for Africa® want to express our heartfelt gratitude to the federal employees who supported our spring protection program through their Combined...
In the Mityana, Luwero, Kiboga, Nakaseke, Nakasongola, Mubenede, and other districts in Uganda, a year ago there was an estimated 3,000 people living in 15 villages who had no source of clean, safe water for all their daily needs, reported David Ssagala, manager of...
Earlier this year, before the COVID-19 pandemic had been making inroads into sub-Saharan African countries such as Uganda, Bread and Water for Africa® agreed to support construction of 15 of our partner there, Bega Kwa Bega’s (BkB), water protection projects. The...
For years, Bread and Water for Africa® has constructed water wells and supported clean water development projects to provide life’s most vital resource. That mission is now more important than ever as communities throughout Africa lack clean water sources to wash...