by Nicole Miller | Mar 7, 2025 | African Road Partners, Misc., News and Updates
Indigenous Batwa leaders are tackling an often neglected essential need in Burundi. A new initiative is taking shape in three indigenous communities, with the aim to enhance women and girls’ dignity, improve women’s health and girls’ participation in...
by Nicole Miller | Apr 8, 2024 | African Road Partners, African Road projects, Misc.
In August of 2023, 1,440 Batwa indigenous people from 18 villages received legal identity, access to essential social services, and basic rights for the first time through ID Kits. Eight months later, the ongoing impact of those ID Kits are still being felt and cherished. In March 2024, Changemaker Evariste Ndikumana and the ASSEJEBA team met with recipients of those ID Kits from August 2023, and listened as they shared on how their lives have changed.
by Nicole Miller | Feb 11, 2023 | African Road Partners, African Road projects, Misc., News and Updates
There is much celebration and joy happening in Burundi, as remarkable progress with the construction of brick houses is being made in the indigenous Batwa village of Gahombo. Most families in the indigenous villages of Gahombo, Ndava, and Mwendo, live in makeshift...