Right now, in Kenya, there are 42 primary school graduates, including the Seed School, located in the heart of the Nairobi slum of Kibera, who want nothing more than to continue their education onto secondary school where upon graduation they will realize their dreams...
Finding Hope During Poverty in Kenya: How Our Partners Help Kenyan Families
Poverty continues to remain a pressing issue for a significant portion of Kenya’s population. In 2022, 8.9 million Kenyans lived in extreme poverty, earning below $1.90 US dollars per day. These numbers highlight the significant challenges that millions face with...
Bread and Water for Africa® Student Feeding Program in Kenyan Slum ‘A Major Accomplishment’ Says School Director
Back in June 2020, Patrick Odongo, founder and director of the Seed Foundation which operates the Seed School in the heart of the massive slum of Kibera on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, reported that beginning in January of that year that thanks to the supporters...
Eat, Grow and Study
Seed School Meals Program: Feeding Body and Mind and Spirit in the Slum of Kibera
In the massive slum on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, known as Kibera, in the midst of dire poverty and hopelessness there is a beacon of light known as the Seed School. It is where some 200 children and youth have the opportunity to begin their education, their...
Abandoned, Infant Twins Levi and Lily Find Love and More at the Only Home They’ve Ever Known
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa there are thousands of orphaned and abandoned children and youth who have much to be thankful for this upcoming holiday season thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®. They are the destitute and most vulnerable living in...
Bookbags, School Supplies Lead to ‘Independent Members of Society’ for Kenyan Orphans
For more than two decades, thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, we have been able to provide grant funding to the Lewa Children’s Home in Eldoret, Kenya, ensuring that over the years hundreds, if not thousands, of orphaned and abandoned children...
Kebeneti Clinic is Saving Lives in Rural Kenya with Help from Bread and Water for Africa®
The Kebeneti SDA Dispensary in Kericho, Kenya was founded in 1966 in a two-room mud building with the mission of serving children and adults in desperate need of healthcare in a rural region of the country where medical services were extremely limited. And decades...
Infant Twins Levi and Lily Found a Loving Home in the Lewa Children’s Home
In the 1970s, Phyllis Keino, who would eventually become the international spokesperson for Bread and Water for Africa®, began fostering and taking in destitute and abandoned children in the surrounding communities around the town of Eldoret, Kenya. In December 1988,...
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,...
They Eat, Grow, Study: School Feeding Changing Life in Kenya!
In January, thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa®, we were able to provide a grant to provide two meals each school day to 125 children attending the Seed School in the Nairobi slum of Kibera for the entire academic term. But that was before the...
Water for Shinabeles villagers, a special thanks to our supporters, and more!
A gift to Kenyan Children- Thank you! Asante Sana!
For many years, Richard “Dick” Landis has been partnering with Bread and Water for Africa® to help improve the lives of Kenyan children. First was his support of the Lewa Children’s Home, the Kipkeino Primary School and Baraka Farm, all integrated under the direction...