The Batwa Development Program (BDP) was formed to “help the Batwa help themselves“ and exists to address the root causes of extreme poverty and poor health of the Batwa. The Batwa lived for millennia in the area that is now the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest as skilled hunters and gatherers who utilized every part of the forest,...
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Bwindi Community Hospital (BCH) is a 128-bed full-service hospital, ranked among the best in Uganda. In 2000, Scott and Carol Kellermann’s survey of the Batwa pygmies unveiled a forgotten people group with no land or permanent homes. Throughout the region, virtually no medical care was available for over 100,000 people, most o...
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In a remote corner of Uganda, the Batwa pygmies are learning to thrive again. In 1992, the Batwa pygmies, indigenous nomads of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda, were evicted from the forest when it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site to protect the mountain gorillas. The exiled Batwa were homeless, with no land, resource...
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“For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Luke 19:10 Then Now Medical care under a ficus tree with IVs hanging from branches | 41% of Batwa children die before their 5th birthday | 45% of children born to HIV-positive mothers are HIV-positive | No land N...
Continue Reading“For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Luke 19:10 “Zaccheus was trying to see who Jesus was, and was unable because of the crowd, for he was small in stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree in order to see Him, for He was about to pass thr...
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