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...
Providing a Brighter Future
for Africa’s Children
As a nonprofit and charitable organization, we partner with local African charities and NGOs to provide clean water, healthcare, food, education, orphan care, and more. Every project we support helps African children and families build a healthier, more self-sufficient future.
WATER IS LIFE.
We’ve worked with partners to provide clean water across Africa for many years. Whether it’s for a school, clinic, or farm, these life-changing water projects improve health, reduce hardship, and offer hope for a better future. Thanks to our generous supporters, our work continues in 2026 and beyond.
Featured Programs
Education Program

Health Care Program

Orphan Care Program

Agriculture Program

School Meal Program

Income Generation Program

Where We Work
We currently work with local organizations in these African countries: Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Our Partners

Our programs span across Africa through trusted partnerships with locally based charities and community organizations. Each partner leads projects that provide clean water, food, education, healthcare, and orphan care tailored to their communities’ needs. Together, we build healthier, more self-sufficient futures.
Answering the Call: Combating Extreme Poverty with Bread and Water for Africa®
In 1990, about half of the population in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and two-thirds in East Asia and the Pacific were living in extreme poverty, according to the World Bank. However, in the three decades that followed, these three regions have followed...
Poverty in Africa: A Comprehensive Look at Causes, Progress, and Solutions
In 2024, Sub-Saharan Africa was home to just 16% of the world’s population but accounted for 67% of all people living in extreme poverty (World Bank). These numbers show the depth of the crisis and why conversations about development, health, and opportunity on...
Hope on a Plate: Bread and Water for Africa® Changes the Course of Children’s Lives
In 2019, Bread and Water for Africa® announced the development and implementation of a School Meal program in partnership with the Seed Foundation’s Seed School located in the Kenyan slum of Kibera on the outskirts of Nairobi to provide two nutritious, filling...
When the Epidemic Stole Parents, She Became One: The Story of Kabwata Orphanage and Bread and Water for Africa® Orphan Care Program
When Angela Miyanda witnessed the devastation in her country of Zambia in the 1980s caused by the AIDS epidemic, she knew she could not just stand by as hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of the country’s children were suddenly orphaned, and infants born...
Eat. Grow. Study. Hope Begins with a Meal
This Christmas, 300 children and youth (141 girls and 159 boys) attending the Seed School in the Nairobi slum of Kibera have a special reason to be joyful – thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, one year of free education and a daily meal of...







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