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...
Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® Ensure a Merry Christmas for Orphans in Tanzania, Zambia and Elsewhere This Holiday Season
On Christmas Day this year, dozens of children living at the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre opened their presents from “Santa” as do millions in the U.S. and around the world. But in their case, it’s not their parents who place the presents under the tree, but a...
Orphaned Children in Tanzania ‘Blessed’ that Bread and Water for Africa® ‘Has Come to Their Rescue’
It has been more than a year ago that Bread and Water for Africa® provided our first grant for pilot project to a potential new partner in Tanzania, Watoto Wa Africa (Children of Africa) to prevent the orphanage it operates from being shut down. The purpose of the...
“Little” Michael at Kabwata: Blessed to Have Angela, Bread and Water for Africa® and His Namesake Looking Out for Him
Some four years ago, an infant boy was born to a teenage girl who had found a loving home at the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Lusaka, Zambia, and into the caring arms of its founder and director Angela Miyanda. It was subsequently learned as a toddler that...
Lute: Ready to Take the ‘Next Step Forward’ into Adulthood with Opening of Hair Salon in Zambia
Lute Tembo has lived at the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Lusaka, Zambia, since she was three weeks old – and at 24 today, it had been the only home she had ever known before moving into a home nearby she shares with Kabwata staff member Beatrice, and Aggie,...
Supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® from United States Pay a Visit to the Kabwata Orphanage, and More!
On the morning of Thursday, July 6, the children of the Kabwata Orphanage & Transit Centre located in the heart of the capital of Zambia, Lusaka, who attend the nearby Eugene School were patiently waiting for “special guests” from halfway around the world. The...
How to Help Orphans in Africa
We’ve long heard about humanitarian crises on the continent of Africa and while many organizations have taken action to alleviate critical issues like access to clean water, health epidemics, rural poverty, and more – the need is still great. When there is so...
Bread and Water for Africa® Orphan Care Partner in Tanzania Provides Children With a Chance For a Bright Future
In 2022, the founder and program director of Watoto Wa Africa (Children of Africa), Josephat Kirutu reached out to Bread and Water for Africa® for urgent help in preventing the orphanage he operates in Mwanza, Tanzania for 86 children from being closed by the...
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...
Books for Hope: The Kabwata Orphanage Library Project
Whether in the United States or Zambia, children who have the opportunity to spend time “exploring” the world through books at their local libraries experience greater levels of inquisitiveness and a develop a desire to learn...