Although progress is being made against the COVID-19 pandemic in the sub-Saharan African countries where our partners operate hospitals and clinics, the situation remains dim for millions of children throughout sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report published in...
Sierra Leone Healthcare Workers Counting on Us for PPE During COVID-19 Pandemic
In November, the Associated Press reported “Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disaster” and while we at Bread and Water for Africa® were pleased, we also realize that the detrimental impact of COVID-19 on our partners in sub-Saharan African countries...
COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: Tragically Getting Worse Before it Gets Better
As is the case in the United States, in the past few months, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been seeing an uptick in the numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases. In July, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reported that, according to the...
Protecting Frontline Workers in Cameroon Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
At Bread and Water for Africa® among our missions is to provide medicines, and medical supplies and equipment to hospitals and clinics in sub-Saharan African countries where access to healthcare is practically nonexistent for those who have little or no ability to pay...
Keeping Kenya’s children learning through COVID-19
For far too many children in Kenya, the opportunity to attend school is a privilege, not a guarantee, and during the worst of the COVID-19 and schools were closed throughout the country last year and the first part of this year, they were devasted in a myriad of ways,...
COVID-19 Vaccination: Facing the 3rd Wave and The Unknown Next Waves in Africa
While we in the United States are seeing hope that the COVID-19 pandemic is waning throughout the country – particularly in states with high vaccination rates – sadly, that is not the case in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. And today it is with heavy hearts that...
Bread and Water for Africa® Supports Food Self-Sufficiency Agricultural Program to Help Ease Hunger Posed by COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa
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...
Bread and Water for Africa®: Fighting Poverty and Saving Lives During the COVID-19 Pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa
In the 46 countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) there are just over 1 billion people (14 percent of the world’s population), the vast majority in dire poverty which has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The first confirmed case of COVID-19 was confirmed...
COVID-19: Access to Clean Water is Crucial in sub-Saharan Africa!
For more than two decades, we at Bread and Water for Africa® have remained committed to providing clean, safe drinking water for tens of thousands of children, parents and elders in sub-Saharan Africa. Over the years, we have dug wells in countries including...
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...
Africa in the Path of Covid-19 and Our Steadfast Support
Medicine Distribution to Health Centers in Sierra Leone “While so much about the virus and how it operates remains unclear, sub-Saharan Africa so far has dodged a deadly wave of coronavirus cases.” — The Washington Post, September 22, 2020 While that may be true in...