EN: Connecting the Dots with ALEX AHIMBISIBWE - Batwa Indigenous Development Organisation

The Batwa are an Indigenous People of Africa's Great Lakes region. For thousands of years, the Batwa of South-western Uganda lived as hunter-gatherers in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. In the early 1990s, the creation of a national park led to their eviction from their ancestral home, leaving Batwa communities landless and pushed to the margins of society. In this episode, we travel to Kashija village, in Kisoro District, to meet Alex Ahimbisibwe, the director of the Batwa Indigenous Development Organisation, or BIDO. Founded in 2015, BIDO works to overcome this marginalization through community development led by the Batwa themselves. Azimuth has been a partner of BIDO since 2022. We continue to support two crucial BIDO initiatives: an agriculture project building food security and food sovereignty in the community, and an education project accompanying Batwa children — and their parents — along their school journey. We recorded this conversation during our visit to Kashija. We hope it brings you closer to the Batwa, and to the work BIDO is doing in Uganda. . Learn more about our partnership with BIDO: https://azimuthworldfoundation.org/partnerships/grassroots-organizations/bido/ . Follow BIDO's's work: https://batwaz-bido.org // https://www.instagram.com/batwa_indigenous_development/ . WATCH the video version of this interview or READ a transcript here: https://azimuthworldfoundation.org/stories/alexbido . AZIMUTH WORLD FOUNDATION - JOIN THE CONVERSATION: - WEBSITE: https://www.azimuthworldfoundation.org - INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/azimuthworldfoundation - FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/azimuthworldfoundation - LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/azimuth-world-foundation/