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...
At the Konzere Primary School for Girls in the Chikwawa District of Malawi, the 789 girls who are enrolled there currently have no choice but to use a toilet facility that is described as “a miserable, unhygienic facility that brings fear and danger among them.” Alex...
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...
In Tanzania, an estimated two million children between the ages of 7 and 13 years old are out-of-school,” according to UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund. In addition, “Almost 70 percent of children aged 14-17 years old are not enrolled in secondary education...
Elga Ochieng and Stephen Okoth want nothing more in life right now than the opportunity to continue to be able to complete their secondary school education. Elga and Stephen grew up in the Kenyan slum of Kibera – among the largest slums on the continent – on the...
In Chad, one of the poorest countries in the world, the rate of illiteracy among youth is about 70 percent, which according to UNICEF (originally known as the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund), “which is about more than 2 million youth who do not...
Even in this increasingly digital age, students of all ages all around the world still rely on the printed page and the books they’re contained in for much of their educational growth and progress – especially for those in sub-Saharan African countries where...
In the Kibera slum on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, our partner, the Seed Foundation, operates its Seed School which serves as an educational oasis in the midst or sheer and unimaginable poverty. Without it, it is highly doubtful that the 200 children who attend...
Today, January 24, is the United Nations’ International Day of Education which was adopted in December 2018 to celebrate the role of education for bringing global peace and sustainable development. At Bread and Water for Africa®, we recognize and appreciate today’s...
Bakaba is a small rural village in southwestern Chad that is difficult to get there on a road/path that is only possible with certain types of vehicles with four-wheel drive and “strong” motorbikes and little to no “social amenities” including electricity and running...
Their names are Wanzala, Elga, Agesa, Anyango, Mbuya, Otieno B., Otieno V., Aloo, Stephen and Ochieng, and they are all promising teenagers growing up in the worst possible situations imaginable in the Nairobi slum of Kibera. They are all also bright, promising...
In schools, in the United States and elsewhere in developed countries around the world, more and more students are using tablets, Chromebooks and other electronic devices in their classrooms replacing traditional textbooks, but in Third World countries, such as...