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Our mission is simple, provide a brighter future for Africa's Children!
02/15/2025
For years, James Abu, 27, struggled with low harvests using traditional tools. But after joining the Farmers Training Program by RYDO-SL & Bread and Water for Africa®, everything changed.
With modern farming techniques, James doubled his rice production, bought land in Bo City, and even paid his sister’s school fees! 🎉💰
Your support is making a huge difference in Sierre Leone & bringing real change! Help more farmers like James succeed! 💙
With no formal education and two young children to care for, Hawa Sillah struggled to make a living—until she joined the Farmers Training Program by RYDO-SL & Bread and Water for Africa®.
With training, seeds, and tools, she launched her own groundnut and bean business! Now, she’s earning, saving, and securing a future for her family.
“Before, I was struggling to plan and trace my profit, but now it’s easier to keep records of my daily business,” Hawa shares.
Women like Hawa depend on the generous support of donors like yourself! Continue to make an impact in their lives! 💙
Farming sustains Sierra Leone’s economy, yet many farmers struggle to grow enough food for their families. We’re working to change that.
Through our partnership with Rural Youth Development Organization – Sierra Leone (RYDO-SL), we’re launching a six-month training program to equip 75 young farmers with essential skills in site selection, irrigation, pest control, and crop rotation. This training will help them boost harvests, safeguard crops from drought, and increase their incomes.
🌱 Stronger farmers mean stronger communities.
🌱 Your support provides tools, seeds, and training for long-term success.
Will you make a gift today? To support our training program in Sierra Leone. 💚🌍
Thanks to your support we’ve built safe, sanitary toilets for students at Konzere Primary and Secondary Schools in Malawi!
💛 Over 800 female students now have access to hygienic facilities, improving attendance and dignity, especially for girls during their menstrual cycles.
For less than $3,000, this life-changing project was made possible, and it’s already reducing dropouts and empowering students to succeed.
💙 Thank you for helping us uplift Africa—one community at a time!
01/17/2025
Our Executive Director, Bethelhem Tessema, recently visited our mobile clinic in Malawi, where residents in remote villages like Mseka face extraordinary challenges accessing basic healthcare. Many must walk long distances—even while ill—just to reach the nearest clinic.
But thanks to our partnership with OAF (Our AIM Foundation), we’ve built a mobile outreach clinic that is truly saving lives! By bringing free medical care directly to villages like Mseka, we’re making healthcare accessible to those who need it most.
On a single day, the OAF team treated 256 patients, including 46 cases of malaria—a disease endemic in over 95% of Malawi and one of the leading causes of illness and death, especially among children under five.
This life-changing work is only possible because of your support. To help us reach more remote villages and save even more lives, please consider contributing to our mission today. 💙
Conflict and instability have burdened the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for far too long, with malnutrition and lack of healthcare causing some of the world’s highest rates of maternal deaths.
🚐 We’re taking action: We are proud to announce the launch of a mobile clinic to serve isolated communities in the DRC—areas where families have no access to medical care.
Our mobile clinic will treat up to 70 people daily, reaching 4,500 individuals across 15 remote villages. It will deliver lifesaving medicines, promote disease prevention, and provide sustainable care through trained health workers and nurses.
🙏🏾 We can’t do it without you. Your contribution means more medicine, more resources, and more lives saved. 💚
Bread and Water for Africa® is partnering with TAC Asbl to launch a mobile clinic in the DRC, bringing life-saving healthcare directly to isolated communities like the Pygmies. These communities face severe poverty, discrimination, and live in remote areas with no access to medical care.
🚑 Your support puts the clinic on the road. Donate today to ensure families receive the essential healthcare they’ve been denied for far too long.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), 75% of people live on less than $2.15 a day, and indigenous communities like the Pygmies face even greater challenges—cut off from basic healthcare by poverty, discrimination, and remote locations.
Bread and Water for Africa® is stepping in. This year, we’re partnering with TAC Asbl to launch a mobile clinic to reach these isolated communities with life-saving care.
🚑 What the Mobile Clinic Will Do:
✅ Treat 50-70 individuals daily in remote villages.
✅ Provide essential medicines and hygiene education.
✅ Train local health workers for sustainable impact.
Your donation can help us provide medicine, hygiene education, help our mobile clinic stay stocked with the latest medical supplies and train medical staff to reach those in desperate need.💙
🌍✨ Happy New Year from all of us at Bread and Water for Africa! As we close the chapter on 2024, we’re filled with gratitude for the incredible impact we achieved together. Your generosity helped us bring clean water, education, and hope to countless lives across Sub-Saharan Africa. ❤️
As we enter 2025, we’re inspired to aim even higher. This year, we’ll continue working to transform lives, empower communities, and create sustainable solutions. Thank you for being an essential part of our mission. Here’s to another year of making a difference together! 🌟🎉
12/31/2024
As we count down the final hours of 2024, let’s make them count for communities across Sub-Saharan Africa. Your generosity has brought clean water, education, and brighter futures to countless families this year. 💖
There’s still time to make a difference! 💪🏾 Every donation helps us continue empowering communities and changing lives in the new year.
Help us carry this momentum into 2025! 🌟 Together, we’re building hope and opportunity, one community at a time. ❤️
As we reflect on 2024, we are filled with gratitude for the incredible strides we’ve made together in uplifting and empowering communities across Sub-Saharan Africa. 🌍 Thanks to your support, Bread and Water for Africa has provided life-changing resources, opportunities, and hope to those who need it most. ❤️
We invite you to revisit the moments that defined this year by exploring our 2024 Flipbook on our website. Together, we’re creating a brighter future—one community at a time. 💪🏾
12/25/2024
🎄❤️ Merry Christmas from all of us at Bread and Water for Africa! Today, we celebrate the spirit of compassion and generosity that transforms lives. Thanks to your support, we’ve been able to bring hope and opportunity to communities across Sub-Saharan Africa. 🌍🎁
May your Christmas Day be filled with joy, love, and the warmth of family and friends. Thank you for being part of our mission to create lasting change. Wishing you a season of peace and blessings! 🌟❄️
12/24/2024
It’s Christmas Eve, and as we reflect on the past year, our hearts are filled with gratitude for the incredible community that makes our work possible. At Bread and Water for Africa®, we are deeply thankful for your support in our mission to uplift Sub-Saharan Africa. ❤️🎄
This evening, we wish you warmth, joy, and precious moments with those you hold dear. Let’s embrace the light, love, and hope that this season brings. Wishing you a peaceful and happy holiday from all of us at Bread and Water for Africa! 🌟❄️
12/04/2024
Thank you for your incredible generosity on Giving Tuesday! If you missed the chance to give yesterday, there’s still time to make a difference. You can help provide daily meals for Seed School children in Kenya’s largest slum throughout the school year!
Your support means so much as we continue to uplift the children of Africa. Thank you!
There’s still a few hours left to help make an incredible impact! Your donation today can provide daily meals for children at Seed School in Kenya’s largest slum, ensuring they have the nourishment they need to thrive throughout the school year.
Don’t wait—this is your chance to support these children and show them their futures matter.
At the Seed School in Kibera, 200 students rely on generous friends like you for their daily meals. Without these meals, education becomes impossible. Let’s not forget about these students this Giving Tuesday. We need your help to keep their plates—and their minds—full. Make a difference tToday. Every meal counts. 💙
Two meals a day 🍛, five days a week 📅—that’s our mission for 200 students at the Seed School, located in Kibera, Kenya’s largest slum. Without proper meals, learning becomes impossible. Join us this Giving Tuesday 💙 to make sure we’re there for these children! Every meal counts. Every dollar makes a difference.
For students at Kibera’s Seed School, proper nutrition is the first step toward a brighter future. Without daily meals 🍽️, learning becomes impossible. Help us reach our Giving Tuesday goal of $22,400 to keep 200 students fed the entire school year! Every meal counts. Every dollar makes a difference ❤️.
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Persistent flooding at the Kyasira Home of Hope has left orphaned children sleeping in beds just inches above water and using unsanitary restrooms. The situation is critical, as there is a high risk of the roof collapsing.
We urgently need your help to build a new orphanage on higher ground, ensuring the safety and well-being of these vulnerable children. Your donation today can make a life-changing difference.
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Bread and Water for Africa® began in 1986 as a project of Christian Relief Services to promote positive change in Africa by supporting grassroots initiatives for self-sufficiency, health and education. (this has been our mission ever since.
On December 30, 1997, Bread and Water for Africa®, a Virginia nonstock incorporated charity headquartered in Fairfax County, received IRS approval as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization and was soon certified by the Agency for International Development (USAID) as a registered Private Voluntary Organization (PVO).
Today, we maintain our independent charitable status and affiliation with Christian Relief Services Charities.
We receive funding from wonderfully supportive and caring individuals, family and community foundations, corporations, Christian Relief Services, generous Federal employees through the Combined Federal Campaign, generous state employees through state employee campaigns, wills and bequests, and employer matching contributions.
During our over 20-year history, we have provided more than $5,000,000 in grant funding to grassroots African organizations in Burundi, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Grant funding has been concentrated on projects in the areas of education, health care, clean water, agricultural self-sufficiency, orphan care and income-generating projects to support our partners’ free or low-cost programs.
We have also provided more than $120,000,000 worth of in-kind donations of medicine, medical supplies and equipment, hygiene items, books, tools, school furniture, computers and other assorted relief items to our various partners and their programs.
Today, you can change the future for African children by making a donation right here on Facebook. It doesn’t take much to make a difference, but the impact is extraordinary.
Bread and Water for Africa® is a BBB-accredited charity with a Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency. Learn more at africanrelief.org
