Economic Growth Rwanda Project #56877

Empowerment for indigenous People; Batwa in Rwanda

by RWANDAN YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATION

Project Report | Apr 24, 2024
Batwa project progress report

By Jean Damascene Uwizeyimana | Project Leader

Dear Patrons,

Thank you very much for the support you offered to our organization to support Batwa project in Rwanda. The Empowerment for Indigenous People project aimed to uplift the Batwa community in Rwanda by providing them with resources and opportunities for socio-economic development. However, the project encountered significant challenges, primarily due to insufficient funds, resulting in the inability to achieve its intended goals.

Challenges Faced:

Financial Constraints: The project suffered from a severe shortage of funds right from its inception. This limitation hindered the implementation of key activities such as vocational training, healthcare initiatives, and income generation micro-projects initiatives within the Batwa community.
Limited Scope of Interventions: Insufficient funds constrained the project's ability to address the multifaceted needs of the Batwa community comprehensively. As a result, critical aspects such as education, cultural preservation, and land rights advocacy remained largely unaddressed.
Inadequate Capacity Building: The project intended to empower the Batwa community through capacity-building initiatives. However, due to budgetary constraints, the implementation of training programs and skill-building workshops was severely limited, hindering the community's ability to become self-reliant.
Impact on Sustainability: Insufficient funding undermined the project's sustainability efforts. Without adequate financial resources, the project struggled to establish income-generating activities or sustainable development models within the Batwa community, making it challenging to maintain the achieved progress in the long term.

Conclusion:

Despite its noble intentions, the Empowerment for Indigenous People project faced insurmountable challenges primarily attributable to inadequate funding. As a result, the project fell short of achieving its goals of uplifting the Batwa community in Rwanda. Moving forward, it is imperative to secure sufficient financial support to ensure the success and sustainability of this initiatives aimed at empowering marginalized indigenous groups, hence your support will impact positively this project.

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Dec 21, 2023
Why Project Goals Not Achieved in this Year

By UWIZEYIMANA JEAN DAMASCENE | Project Leader

Dear Patrons,
Thank you very much for the support you have offered so far, which has contributed a lot to empowering the Batwa community in Rwanda.
So far, we have raised 440 $, and we have used this money to support pottery activities. As, we have shared in the previous reports . Above 80% of a marginalized group, "Abatwa" live in chronic poverty with different negative consequences secondary to chronic poverty such as malnutrition, hygiene-related diseases, infectious diseases, and low education level.

The Abatwa's educational level remains the lowest and the dropout rate the highest in Rwanda. According to the survey conducted by COPORWA, only 34% of Batwa had attended school, less than 1% of secondary school, and no one had completed higher education.
The project needs to offer to about 1,000 Abatwa and till now we are still unable to achive the project goals as we still not have enough funds to implement this project.

We need to further their education and improve the Batwa group's socio-economic status through personal talent development and income generation micro-projects. The project needs to provide basic literacy skills in reading and writing for out-of-school youth and parents who are unable to return in schools, till now we are unable to start these humanitarian activities, and we hope to start the implementation if funds are available in the next year.

We thank you for all the support and we request you donate generously to our indigenous empowerment project so that we can achieve our goals. You could also consider making a monthly recurring donation for our project, which will help us with our ongoing work. We thank you for everything that you have done for our project, and we look forward to your continued support.

Thanks and Best Regards.

Jean Damascene UWIZEYIMANA
RWAYDAVO President

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Aug 24, 2023
Delay in starting the project activities

By Jean Damascene Uwizeyimana | Project Leader

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