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Executive Director Visits Partners in Kenya and Uganda; Seeks Potential Additional Ones
Bread and Water for Africa® Executive Director Beth Tessema recently returned from an extended visit to Kenya to meet with Phyllis Keino, our international spokesperson and founder and director of the Lewa Children’s Home, to evaluate its progress and conduct a needs...
Bread and Water for Africa® Supporters Provide Emergency Relief Following Cyclone in Zimbabwe
Last March, a catastrophic cyclone by the name of Cyclone Idai devastated portions of Zimbabwe leaving hundreds dead and many more missing. “In some parts of these regions whole families were swept away by the water that had flooded the rivers or were submerged in mud...
Bread and Water for Africa welcomes our new partner in Sierra Leone, The Rural Youth Development Organization
The Rural Youth Development Organization – Sierra Leone (RYDO-SL) operates the Mokoba Health Center in a rural region where most of the residents of the area are subsistence farmers with an average number of six children who struggle simply to survive on what they can...
Relief after Cyclone Idai, a visit to our partners, and more!
Joseph Ekidor – Making His Way in the World with Educational Support
Joseph Ekidor is no longer a child at age 19, but a young adult looking to make his way in the world as he is on the verge of completing his secondary school education. It’s a bright future made possible only through his hard work and determination, the loving home he...
Ann Tiyaa – A Success Story 12 Years in the Making
18-year-old Ann Tiyaa is a Form Four (senior) at Sambut Secondary School in Eldoret, Kenya, who has made great strides in her life. For one thing, she has accomplished something only few children and youth are able to do in Kenya – attend 12 years of school and poised...
Borehole for Abomvomba Village, Cameroon: “Objective Achieved”
Abomvomba is a small village of about 650 residents about 22 miles from the much larger city of Ebolowa in Cameroon, places it’s likely very few Americans have ever heard of. Recently at Bread and Water for Africa® we first heard of Abomvomba from our partner in the...
Moye: From Death’s Door to ‘Happily Rejoicing’
Moye had been living a happy life in the small Sierra Leonean village of Kojowolo before the deadly Ebola outbreak of 2014 tragically took the lives of his wife and their two children, leaving the 62-widower all alone in the empty house. He managed to carry on his...
Water for Abomvomba village, Moye’s life saved, and more!
Feed the Kids of Kibera
This month, Bread and Water for Africa® executive director Beth Tessema is spending several weeks in East Africa developing new partnerships in order to enable us to provide assistance to more and more Africans, particularly children. In Nairobi, Kenya, Beth toured...