But for the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, the residents of the area surrounding the Kebeneti SDA Dispensary in rural Kenya would not have convenient access to affordable healthcare in their community. Bread and Water for Africa® established a partnership...
World Water Day 2024: ‘Water for Peace’ and Our Efforts in Ethiopia to Repair Wells Amidst Drought and Conflict
This year, the theme for the United Nations’ World Water Day campaign is “Water for Peace,” which focuses on the critical role water plays in the stability and prosperity of the world. As the UN notes, “When water is scarce or polluted, or when people have unequal or...
Nearly 85 percent of Rural Schools in the DRC Lack Safe Drinking Water: Bread and Water for Africa® is Working to Change That for Hundreds of Students
Following a successful pilot project to provide clean water to students in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who had been drinking contaminated water from nearby Lake Tumba in 2023, we are looking forward to continuing our new partnership this year with...
Bread and Water for Africa® Clean Water Projects: A Look Back at 2023, A Look Ahead into 2024
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...
Bread and Water for Africa® Hopes to Restore Banana Plantation for Flooded Orphans Home in Uganda
In the summer of 2020, the Kyasira Home of Hope for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVC) located on the shores of Lake Victoria in Entebbe, Uganda, was flooded by heavy rains and the lake’s rising waters leaving 62 children and their caregivers stranded, according...
Bread and Water for Africa®: A Look Ahead to Continuing to Save Lives in 2024
It’s said that an organization’s mission is defined by its budget priorities, and at Bread and Water for Africa® our priority is to save lives. That may sound like hyperbole, but it’s a literal statement of fact. For 2024, our largest single budget item – 23 percent...
Over 188,000 Lives Impacted by Bread and Water for Africa® in 2023
As we step into 2024, Bread and Water for Africa® is celebrating a multitude of mission successes throughout the past year. See all that we were able to achieve thanks to the generosity of our supporters and why we have such gratitude and a vibrant hope for the...
Bread and Water for Africa® Teams Up with Technologies Appropriées pour le Congo to Provide Clean Water for Thousands of Students and Villagers in the DRC
At the start of this year, the executive director of Technologies Appropriées pour le Congo, Association Sans But Lucrative (TAC Asbl), headquartered in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), reached out to Bread and Water for Africa® with a request for...
Bringing Clean, Safe Water ‘To the Doorstep’ to Hundreds in Rural Zambian Villages
The rural Kalabo District in Zambia is a difficult area to work in as the terrain is mainly deep Kalahari sand resulting in most villages not having basic water supply infrastructure, according to Elisha Ng’onomo, executive director of one of our newest partners,...
Bread and Water for Africa® Working to ‘Accelerate Change’ for Thousands This Year Through Clean Water Projects
“Accelerating Change” is the theme of the United Nations’ World Water Day 2023, held annually on March 22 since 1993 to highlight the importance of fresh, clean water and its WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) goals for people throughout the world. At Bread and...
Safe, Clean Water is Life; Contaminated Water Means Illness, Death for Untold Millions in sub-Saharan Africa
In the United States, Native Lakota Americans have a saying in their tribal language – “Mni Wiconi” – Water is Life. But tragically, for millions in sub-Saharan Africa without access to clean water who have no choice to drink from unsafe sources potentially...
Access to Clean Water is Critical to Combat Pandemic
For over 25 years, we at Bread and Water for Africa® are keenly aware of the need for clean water for children and families in sub-Saharan Africa where entire communities risk serious illness, and even death, drinking water from contaminated sources. That’s why since...