While the hospital was started particularly to provide health care to the Batwa, it quickly found itself treating all people living in the area.
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A Vice documentary in 2015 showed how Batwa communities were characterized by poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, lack of education facilities and discrimination.
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Although it is no longer profitable since industrialized pottery became cheaply available, the Batwa cling to the activity for its cultural and social significance.
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Unable to access their ancestral lands and practice traditional cultural and economic activities, the Batwa now perceive their pottery as an expression of their identity.
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The people are predominantly from the Bakiga tribe, but also from Batwa ( Pygmies ), the Banyarwanda and the Bahororo ( Toro ) tribal clans.
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Batwa pygmies inhabited the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest for thousands of years, but became conservation refugees largely as a result of efforts to protect endangered mountain gorillas.
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Batwa men struggle with alcoholism, known to occur in communities facing cultural collapse as men can no longer carry out traditional roles and provide for families.
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Now, hungry Batwa Pygmies of southeastern Congo say they have no choice but to resume their hunt for lowland gorillas and antelope that live in the national park.
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While the Batwa adapted to the changes in their environment by adopting new economic activities and thus traditions and identities, they continue to face challenges to their survival.
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Benon Mugarutwa, who traveled from Rwanda for an international conference of tribal people in India, says his Batwa tribe was forced off land earmarked for a gorilla reserve.
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