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A year in Health Care in Africa
Tragically, millions in sub-Saharan African countries die needlessly every year, particularly young mothers and their infant children. Otherwise healthy children and adults are sickened and die from easily preventable and treatable illnesses due to a lack of safe...
A year of Education
In Kenya, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of orphaned and destitute children who have any place to call home, who don’t know where their next meal is coming from, and who have no one to love them and keep them safe. But thanks...
Hope Services’ Esther Ndichafah: Our ‘Mother Teresa of Cameroon’
It is not far-fetched to describe our partner Esther Ndichafah, founder and director of our longtime partner Hope Services Ministry International, as the “Mother Teresa of Cameroon.” We know of no one who has done more for those most in need in her impoverished...
Giving Tuesday: Medical Supplies for the Cameroon
Thanks to the support of African children through your generous gifts to Bread and Water for Africa®, we started funding the construction of a clinic/hospital in Douala about three years ago. The clinic was supposed to open in May of 2018, but because of the election...
November E-News
Esther Ndichafah, Harvest Time, Giving Tuesday, and...
Harvest Time is Now in sub-Saharan Africa
Right now it’s harvest time throughout sub-Saharan Africa including the countries where we support farming operations to Baraka Farm in Kenya which provides food and support to the Lewa Children’s Home, to the smallholder farmers who subsist on what they can grow on...
Tractor for Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone, the soil and growing conditions are ideal for large-scale farming. But people are starving because of a lack of farming equipment necessary to cultivate large tracts of land which tragically lay fallow. However, thanks to our supporters, this fall we...
School Fees in Chad
For untold thousands of children in Chad, just getting clean water to drink and food to eat is a struggle, particularly for orphans and the poorest of the poor in this destitute country – and the idea of going to school is beyond the realm of possibility. But thanks...
Water and Chicken Project in Sierra Leone
In the United States, access to clean water and having an abundant supply of farm-fresh eggs for cooking and baking are taken for granted. Very few homes in the U.S. don’t have running water and a carton of eggs in the refrigerator. That’s not the case in Sierra...
Our International Spokesperson Phyllis Keino Receives Humanitarian Award
For the last 50 years, Bread and Water for Africa® international spokesperson Phyllis Keino has been “a mother to thousands” of children rescued from the streets of Eldoret, Kenya who have been lovingly taken in by the woman they grow to call “mum.” In recognition of...