Breadline Africa was established in 1993, Cape Town and registered as a non-profit organisation in South Africa. It is also registered as a charity in the UK.

The focus is clustered into three main areas:

Library Project: Container library project, in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, that provides libraries in refurbished shipping containers for under-resourced primary schools across South Africa; Early Childhood Development Centres (Nursery Schools): Infrastructure projects for pre-school facilities, providing classrooms, toilet facilities or kitchens using converted shipping containers; Initiatives and special community projects: Seaside outings, feeding programmes and school stationery packs.