Build A Meeting Room For "Left Behind" Students

Hello PSA donors and followers. This GlobalGiving update Report is different. This Report is about research done by Rui Diogo and his team, who have presented us with his Video of the Batwa Pygmy current situation and how they got here. It is an excellent brief history and synopsis of who they are in today's world. 

AZIMUTH WORLD FOUNDATION

Presents 

Connecting the Dots 

With Josefa Cariño Tauli

Video link -  55 minutes 

Connecting the Dots with Rui Diogo

 

Connecting the Dots with Rui Diogo

 In July of 2022, Rui Diogo and his team toured East-Central Africa. 

They contacted Pygmy Survival Alliance, and we guided them to Cyaruzinge Village. As they were researching the Indigenous people of Africa, The community of Batwa in Cyaruzinge was the perfect group of people to interview and observe. The video is an excellent presentation of who the Pygmies were and are. 

Thank you Azimuh World Foundation, Rui Diogo, and his team for such a clear picture of what happened in the history of the Batwa people and who they are today. 

Near the closing of the video, Rui mentions PSA work and HDI’s contributions to the people who were left behind in history. 

Large accomplishments have happened recently.  The Multipurpose building is being built, expecting to move in before the first of 2023. The regulations for building in Rwanda changed this year, making it a long process getting the building permit, finally, the community has been able to build. The bricks are installed, the metal roof is on and the internal furnishings will hopefully be done in December.  PSA will be taking part in GlobalGiving on Giving Tuesday, November 29.   

SHARE, a monthly ongoing program has begun in the village teaching family planning to teen mothers and young women.

Computer training for the Irerero teachers is taught in the evenings. Cartoons are shown to the children two evenings a week in the preschool, music, and dance are enjoyed one or two nights a week by the children and young teens. Everyone is looking forward to the new multi-purpose room being completed so more than one activity can be offered every day. Giving the community opportunities for growth, classes, and fun entertainment in the evenings. This is very exciting to the community, as they are happy when they dance and sing, and they do music because they are happy, creating more social cohesiveness.

The teachers will divide the children into three groups to have more manageable numbers of preschoolers. 130 children are now attending Irerero, and the multipurpose building will allow the community to have space to move forward in feeding the 35 children who are 6-month-olds to 3-year-old, adding on to the duties of the Kitchen staff who are feeding the children a nutritional meal every school day.

Large accomplishments have happened recently.  The Multipurpose building is being built, expecting to move in before the first of 2023. The regulations for building in Rwanda changed this year, making it a long process getting the building permit, finally, the community has been able to build. The bricks are installed, the metal roof is on and the internal furnishings will hopefully be done in December.  PSA will be taking part in GlobalGiving on Giving Tuesday, November 29.   

Soccer continues on Saturdays. The children have received new uniforms and soccer balls so they can compete in the local events.

Research is being done on the infrastructure needed to begin the building of the New Amakondara Preschool. Sanitation is the focus at the moment, deciding which method will be the best for the sustainability of the school.

Vocational education continues. The young women who completed the hairdressing internship can support themselves working in the Kigali salon. They also are teaching other women the basics at the salon in the Cyaruzinge village. The sewing internships are working well, they are being taught more skills in cutting out patterns and sewing a larger number of clothing pieces.

Links:

• PSA Facebook link