If something works, such as how for years the Baraka Farm has been providing support to our longtime partner, the Lewa Children’s Home in Eldoret, Kenya (founded by our international spokesperson Phyllis Keino), we strive to replicate it elsewhere in the sub-Saharan...
Tanzania: Combating the Coronavirus Without Clean Water… Impossible
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...
Bread and Water for Africa® Helps Battle Effects of COVID-19 in Zambia and Zimbabwe
The Centers for Disease Control has issued travel advisories for Americans considering traveling to Zambia and Zimbabwe where Bread and Water for Africa® partners the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre and the Lerato Children’s Village, respectively, operate. Of...
Collaborating our health care program with UMC in the midst of global COVID-19 pandemic
Medicines, medical supplies and equipment are always in short supply in the rural regions of sub-Saharan African countries, and with the COVID-19 pandemic continuing its spread throughout the continent these items are needed now more than ever. This month, we are...
Our Journey Fighting Illiteracy in Africa Continues on Through Pandemic
Today, September 8, is the United Nations’ International Literacy Day which this year focuses on “Literacy teaching and learning in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.” The theme highlights literacy learning in a lifelong learning perspective, and therefore, mainly...
COVID-19 Pandemic Rises Throughout Sub-Saharan Africa
Community members outside the Mokoba clinic wearing reusable face masks made by a local tailor with materials provided by Bread and Water for Africa. Throughout the African continent, which had been spared thebrunt of COVID-19 pandemic in terms of confirmed cases and...
Working tirelessly to secure enough food for the children’s Home in Zambia
At Bread and Water for Africa®, we have been promoting foodself-sustainability in Africa for over two decades. The COVID-19 era has increased the need more than ever. The COVID-19 outbreak in Zambia is having a devastating impact on the economy of the country, and on...
COVID-19 Challenges Continue to Plague African Countries, and Not Just the Virus Itself
Although the global coronavirus outbreak has not struck Sub-Saharan African countries like Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe as hard as the United States and Europe, the impact is still being felt. In Zimbabwe, Margaret Makambira, founder and director of the Lerato Children’s...
Our Partner in Sierra Leone is Making Reusable Face Masks for Thousands to Help Contain Virus
Among our newest partners is the Rural Youth Development Organization Sierra Leone (RYDO-SL) which has been serving impoverished communities in the Bumpe Ngao Chiefdom of the Bo District in the country, including operating a health clinic and pharmacy in the village...
Heroes are Everywhere; Nurse Elizabeth Koroma Fought a Good Fight
Photo Caption Nurse Koroma is pictured second from left in the pink and white dress. Elizabeth Koroma is among those selfless and dedicated healthcare workers around the world fighting the coronavirus who surely deserve the title of “hero.” Elizabeth was not only a...
A tailor in Sierra Leone wants to protect his district with face masks, and we plan to help!
Among our newest partners is the Rural Youth Development Organization Sierra Leone (RYDO-SL) which has been serving impoverished communities in the Bumpe Ngao Chiefdom of the Bo District in the country. “The goal of RYDO-SL is to transform communities by building...
Sub-Saharan Africa in Midst of the Pandemic — And the Response by Bread and Water for Africa®
Photo credit/Deutsch Welle In the Sub-Saharan African countries where Bread and Water for Africa® works, health care systems are underfunded and poorly equipped; climate change has caused everything from severe drought to cyclones, and food and clean water are in...