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Many thanks to all of you who have supported us.You are the best.2012 is going to be better and bigger.
We are building a primary school, equivalent to grades 1-7 in the states. Children will learn reading, writing, math, basic life skills, and agriculture. Each classroom will hold up to thirty students. The school will have water barrels to catch rain water. This in turn can provide water for cleaning, cooking, and agriculture. We are also implementing gardening.
Visit our Partners website and make a donation.Your Generous support will ensure we provide essential services to our students.Thanks for making a difference
Many thanks to all of you who have supported us.You are the best.2012 is going to be better and bigger.
We are building a primary school, equivalent to grades 1-7 in the states. Children will learn reading, writing, math, basic life skills, and agriculture. Each classroom will hold up to thirty students. The school will have water barrels to catch rain water. This in turn can provide water for cleaning, cooking, and agriculture. We are also implementing gardening.
Visit our Partners website and make a donation.Your Generous support will ensure we provide essential services to our students.Thanks for making a difference
We work with the Batwa tribe in southwest Uganda, to create community based, self sustainable programs that provide food, shelter and life skills to over 750 Batwa.
The plight of the Batwa pygmies in southwest Uganda
In central Africa, the pygmy tribes, otherwise known as the Forest People, have been evicted from their ancestral forest. These original inhabitants of central Africa lived in these forests as hunter-gatherers until 1991, when they were forcefully removed from the forest to create National Parks. They were promised land and compensation from the government but have received nothing to this day. In southwest Uganda, the Batwa are presently found in Kabale, Kanungu and Kisoro. Now a significant minority, they are forced to lurk around, suffering untold poverty, diseased, illiterate, stigmatized and beg for their living. They are one of the poorest persons in the southern hemisphere. There is an estimated 25,000 Batwa who live in south western Uganda. They face systematic discrimination, with apartheid like qualities. |
Cecilia's story
Cecilia is an old woman that suffered from the Batwa's eviction. She was rendered landless, and is a squatter on other tribal land. She lost her forest lifestyle and now suffers severe poverty. She has a rare facial disease that prevents her from breathing well, eating properly and speaking. Cecilia is also looking after her grandson and an orphan. Her grandson is all that she has. He is caught between two worlds. The world of his grandmother, that was forest based, and the new life in the harsh situation they are now forced into. Global Batwa Outreach has provided Cecilia and the boys a new house, clothes, bedding and food for the family. The boys are now attending a local school! We are also providing school uniforms and lunches! |
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