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How many people go hungry
There are 257 million people in Africa – poor infants, children, families, and people in vulnerable situations – that still go to bed on an empty stomach each night. This is unsustainable, it is also completely unnecessary.
Why should you care
Lack of access to sufficient food is truly devastating to children, families, and entire communities across Africa. Extreme hunger remains a barrier to sustainable development and creates a trap from which people cannot easily escape. Hunger means less productive individuals, who are more prone to disease and thus often unable to earn more and improve their livelihoods.
Why Our Work Matters
Bread of Life International is a non-profit organization aims to end hunger across Africa. We want all families and persons to have enough safe and nutritious and sufficient food. Africa with zero hunger can positively impact our economies, health, education, equality and social development.
The African Union Malabo Declaration and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2 call for ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, and promoting sustainable food systems by 2025 and 2030 respectively, and this is a priority of Bread of Life International.
Zero Hunger Changes Everything
Zero Hunger Changes Everything
Productivity: Hunger mean less productive individuals, people can’t function and contribute effectively to their family, community and country as a whole.
Health: Hunger means people are less prone to disease and thus often unable to earn more and improve their livelihoods.
Education: For children who are getting enough food to eat, it reduces developmental impairments, absenteeism. Most significantly, performance improves and drop-out rates decrease.
Gender Inequality: Gender inequalities influence food access. Specific gender-related issues include some cultural practices that limit women’s access to productive resources, agricultural credit and use of agricultural equipment
OUR MISSION
MEET OUR LEADERSHIP
The leaders who make up Bread of Life International are dedicated and compassionate team that come from broad range of backgrounds and have a diversity of expertise and experiences. Each person is guided by the organization’s mission to help feed the vulnerable, the poor and the deprived across Africa.
As our organization grows, we seek board members, individuals, and volunteers to join us that are passionate about helping to alleviate hunger across Africa.
CEO & Founder
Michael Sam
Michael Sam is the CEO and Founder of Bread of Life International. He has an unstoppable passion to see that every African child – especially the poor, the needy, the vulnerable, and the deprived has access to sufficient food and never have to go hungry.
Michael obtained scholarship to study at a university in United States. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Decision Information Sciences and MBA from University of Maryland, at College Park.
Read Michael’s full bio here
Michael Sam is the CEO and Founder of Bread of Life International. He has an unstoppable passion to see that every African child – especially the poor, the needy, the vulnerable, and the deprived has access to sufficient food and never have to go hungry.
Michael obtained scholarship to study at a university in United States. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Decision Information Sciences and MBA from University of Maryland, at College Park.
Read Michael’s full bio here
Daniah is a compassionate ally with deep Financial Planning and Analysis expertise acquired in senior Finance roles in the oil and gas sector. She brings tested business partnering and collaboration techniques mastered in operational and corporate settings. Daniah regularly leverages the breadth of her commercial acumen in curating innovative solutions to complex problems.
She earned her Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Toledo and Master of Business Administration from Eastern Michigan University.
Daniah lives in the central Florida area with her husband.
Kenisha is a strong advocate for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. She has years of experience of developing and implementing services that bring people together during emergency and crisis situations.
Kenisha earned her bachelor’s degree in Health Science with a concentration in Community health from Towson University, Towson MD.
Nathan has a deep background in finance/accounting, as well as all aspects of running a small business. He is involved with human resources, IT, accounting, sales, business development, and marketing/company image.
Nathan earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Wisconsin – Lacrosse with a minor in Accounting. He has spent the past 18 years growing and leading an agricultural-equipment dealership. Nathan wears many hats, but he has a strong interest in the financial aspects of the business.
Dr. Yaw Owusu has a doctorate in health policy specializing in health economics. He has worked in different roles utilizing economic analysis of socio-economic factors affecting the social services sector in meeting the needs of vulnerable children, youth and low-income households.
Yaw now focuses on compliance and implementation of health privacy law (Personal Health Information Protection Act of Ontario) concerning client health data for service delivery and data analysis. He also oversees the implementation of the child and youth privacy law within the Child, Youth, and Family Services Act in Ontario in the social services sector.
Previously, he worked with health professionals overseeing the collection and evaluation of quality indicators of the implementation of nursing best practices guidelines in the health sector of Ontario.