We’ve worked with partners to provide clean water across Africa for many years. Whether it’s a school, clinic, or farm, our friends have generously supported our life-changing water projects, and 2025 is no different.
Bread and Water for Africa® programs span across Africa.Each project is innovative and locally-based and works to build healthy and sustainable communities.
In the hospitals and health clinics in Sierra Leone supported by Bread and Water for Africa® there is a significant need to replace mattresses that are deteriorating due to years of use. Clean, comfortable, and supportive mattresses are essential for patient...
Education is a lifeline for millions across Africa. It creates opportunity, improves health and income, and helps communities grow - especially in places facing deep poverty. Yet sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rate of educational exclusion in the world. One...
Across Africa, millions of young lives hang in the balance as families struggle to find enough nutritious food. According to a 2024 UNICEF report, nearly one in three children under age five in Eastern and Southern Africa (30%) and West and Central Africa (32%)...
The Carilino Orphanage, located in the Mont-Ngafula commune of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and operated by the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Bergamo, takes in orphaned and vulnerable children, providing them with a safe...
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...
Imagine “sharing a scoop hole” with hundreds of fellow villagers as your only water source. Such was the case in nearly a dozen Zambia villages until this spring when thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® we were able to step in and fund the...
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No one should have to recover on a crumbling mattress—but many in rural Sierra Leone do.
230 medical-grade mattresses are ready to ship—we just need $7,000 to get them there.
🛏️ $35 sends one
🛏️ $70 sends two
🛏️ $350 sends ten
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Right now, children and families in Kinshasa, DR Congo are walking miles or drinking from polluted springs — just to survive.
We’re raising $14,000 to build a solar-powered deep water well that will give 1,250 people — including orphaned children — safe, daily access to clean water.
Just $11.20 provides clean water for one person. Give today at: breadandwaterforafrica.harnessgiving.org/donate/?checkout=12460&selected-method=one-time&amount=3...
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🌍✨ A Health Center Reborn – Because of YOU! ✨🌍
Just a few months ago, the Kagbaima Health Center — the only medical facility serving 10 villages in rural Sierra Leone — was falling apart. Families living on less than $1 a day had nowhere to turn for care.
But today, thanks to your compassion and generosity, the doors are open again, stronger than ever. 🙌
With just $6,000 raised by supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, we:
✅ Replaced a crumbling thatch roof with a long-lasting zinc
✅ Rebuilt floors and walls
✅ Installed steel doors and windows
✅ Painted, furnished, and revived a clinic once forgotten
Now, 4,851 people — including over 2,500 women and children — have access to safe, dignified, and affordable healthcare. 💛
💉 Services now offered include:
• Antenatal and under-five clinics
• Adolescent and general care
• Health education for lasting impact
Even more inspiring? The community helped build it — contributing sand, timber, water, and hard work — from the very beginning.
As our partner Joseph shared:
“Funding a health program is saving the lives of many children, women, youth, and elderly here now. Health is wealth.”
📌 Next Steps:
To truly complete the transformation, we aim to build:
🚰 A clean water well
🚻 Toilet facilities
🛖 A shaded waiting hut for patients
🏠 Nurses’ housing
Let’s finish what we started — together.
👉 Join us in bringing lasting health and hope to Kagbaima!
#KagbaimaHealthCenter #BreadAndWaterForAfrica #ThankYou #HealthcareForAll #SierraLeone #HealthIsWealth #AfricaStrong #CommunityPower #HopeRestored
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Great and thanks to BWA and their supporting partners for their tireless supports 🙏
Indeed, health is Health. Thanks to BWA and supporters in investing in health. The people of that community are overwhelmed with the support. They owned the facility.
💧 Imagine “sharing a scoop hole” with hundreds of people just to get water.
In these villages, most families were drinking from unprotected shallow wells.
At night, people bathed and used the bathroom in the surrounding bushes.
Children were dying from preventable waterborne illnesses.
That was life in 11 rural villages in Zambia — until now.
Thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, we helped drill 11 clean water boreholes, bringing safe water to 5,640 people, including 1,521 children.
Through our partnership with Village Water Zambia, we didn’t just install hand pumps. We also taught families the importance of hygiene, toilets, and sanitation — and they’re committed to caring for these new water sources.
This is the power of your giving. 🙏 Thank you for being part of this life-giving work.
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Right now, Zimbabwe is facing its worst drought in 40 years — and for the children at Lerato Children’s Home, the impact is heartbreaking. The land is dry. Crops have failed. And the children are going hungry.
We heard the call — and we’re stepping in to help.
Bread and Water for Africa® is partnering with Lerato Children’s Home and the Shinga Development Trust to install a solar-powered drip irrigation system — a solution built to bring life back to the fields, even when the rains won’t come.
If you’ve supported Bread and Water for Africa®, this is what you’re making possible.
And you can help us do even more. Every donation brings us closer to lasting food security for children like those at Lerato.
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💛 Thank you for being part of this.
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When baby Lute was brought to Kabwata Orphanage in Lusaka, Zambia, she had no one—just a future shaped by compassion. Thanks to a $5,000 grant from Bread and Water for Africa® in 1998, that future began with hope.
Raised at Kabwata, Lute beat the odds. She completed school, earned a cosmetology certification, and later trained to support vulnerable children like herself. Today, she serves full-time at the same orphanage that once saved her life.
“She understands their struggles and dreams,” says Simambo Miyanda, Kabwata’s administrator. Lute doesn’t just work at Kabwata—she embodies its mission.
Your support changes lives. Lute is living proof. Thank you!
Read more …. africanrelief.org/lutes-journey-from-orphaned-newborn-to-beacon-of-hope-for-those-sisters-and-bro...
#OrphanCare #AfricaRising #LusakaZambia #HopeInAction #ChildSupport #BreadAndWaterForAfrica #WomensEmpowerment #Transformation #ImpactStories #KabwataOrphanage #GiveHope #ChangeLives #SupportOrphans #FromSurvivalToSuccess ... See MoreSee Less
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