Bread and Water for Africa UK

Announcement - BWA are merging!

We are very excited to announce a brand new partnership with a charity after our own heart - Street Child. Find out what's happening and what it means for BWA and our wonderful projects in Africa. Read more
Coronavirus Emergency Appeal

Our communities in Africa are at great risk. We're acting fast with our partners to find viable solutions to the crisis. We need your help to provide basic food and water to protect hundreds of the poorest and most vulnerable families. Read more

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£6 Provide a family with a tap-equipped plastic bucket and soap so they can wash their hands.

£24 Provide an extremely vulnerable family with a supply of emergency food for a month.

£84 Provide an entire community of 300 households with clean water supply for one week.

£36 Provides school uniform and books for 1 child for a year at school

£9 Provides a child with a nutritional lunch every day for a month in Sierra Leone

£60 Will cover a group therapy workshop for up to 15 people to help build mental resilience

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We believe that no child should be too hungry to learn, play and grow. With your help, we provide food, education and healthcare to some of Africa's most vulnerable children.

Julius the gardener is watering the We Are the Future school garden in ABerdeen, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Education

We work to help the poorest communities in Africa send their children to school.

Health

We work to improve access to healthcare, including maternal and mental health.

Nutrition

We fight malnutrition through improved food production and access to clean water.

829k

Is the number of people we've helped gain better access to healthcare, education and nutrition.

2M

2 million is the number of meals we have distributed to malnourished children in 10 different countries in Africa.

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News

Announcement - BWA are merging!

We are very excited to announce a brand new partnership with a charity after our own heart - Street Child. Find out what's happening and what it means for BWA and our wonderful projects in Africa. Read more
Reflecting on our success last year - part three

In a three part series we reflect on the successes we have achieved in the past year and the projects we were able to fund, the reasons why they are so important to us and what impact they might have. In this report we focus on new classrooms in Sierra Leone. Read more
Reflecting on our success last year - part two

In a three part series we reflect on the successes we have achieved in the past year and the projects we were able to fund, the reasons why they are so important to us and what impact they might have. In this report we focus on Lewa Children's home. Read more

Blog

Community gardens to promote food security

In this article we provide you with a short insight into food insecurity, its impact on diets and health and an overview of the evidence on community gardens and their effectiveness in reducing food insecurity. Read more
Why school feeding? What impact do those interventions really have?

A short but value-packed evaluation of African school feeding programmes, their effectiveness and the impact on health, nutrition and educational outcomes. Read more
COVID-19 in Africa: Understanding the Virus in a local context.

Jonathan Conway explores how COVID-19 behaves across the African continent, providing reference to scientific explanations and future research implications. Part 1 of 3 Read more