Batwa

COMMUNITY OF POTTERS

Mubuga Sector

Rwanda

Support of the Sustainable Development

Promoting the Rights of the Batwa

GYC and Partners Future Plans

Food

Sustainable Projects

Continuous Advocacy

Promotion of the Importance of

Education within the Community

Increasing the Visibility of the Community as part of the

Rwandan Society

HEALTHCARE

EDUCATION

• The Potters live in areas of Uganda, Eastern DRC, Burundi, and Rwanda.
• Some researches indicate that they are between 30000 and 35000 in Rwanda.
• Because of deforestation, they were pushed from their ancestral land (forests) for cattle and cultivation purposes.
• After losing this land without indemnity and their consent, they adopted the pottery, the only source of their income.

GYC INVOLVEMENT

HOUSING

Short History of the Potters Community

• Indigenous people of Rwanda, also known as the potters or the “Batwa.”
• Pygmies indigenous people were the first to inhabit the equatorial forests.
• They used to be called “people of the forest”.
• This community constitutes a political, social and ethnic minority in whole central African region.

SECURITY

Follow-up Timeline

December 2015

• Activities?

2016

March

June/July 2015

December

- Activities?

January

2016

August

Evaluation of progress

August 2015

June

GLOBAL YOUTH CONNECT

- Activities?

in partnership with

The Community of Potters of Rwanda (COPORWA)

Main Issues

2009-2015