Batwa communities sensitized on proper hygiene methods.
KISORO: University students under their Umbrella Bafumbira All University Students Development Associations (BAUSDA), have called upon the Batwa communities to keep proper hygiene.
The Charge was made on Tuesday during the distribution of soaps to the Batwa community of Mikingo in Kisoro district, an event held at Hill village in Kisoro municipality.
In his remarks Emmanuel Nizeyimana the Association’s President encouraged the Batwa people to work towards developing themselves rather than creating discrimination among themselves.
Nizeyimana added that they picked interest in sensitizing the Batwa parents on how they can educate their children, if they are to start seeing their own in big offices at all levels.
He confirmed to this reporter that the soap distribution activity was done in the way of teaching and encouraging Batwa people to foster proper hygiene among their families.
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The Association’s Deputy speakers Gad Nizeyimana said that Batwa people like other human beings have the privilege to look decent after bath, putting on well looking and washed clothes to which they sought of getting them soaps.
Nizeyimana noted that Batwa people have for long been isolated known of a poor hygiene community and warned them not to sell off soaps distributed among themselves but rather use them in cleansing the dirty name.
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The Chairperson of Mikingo Batwa community Francis Guriro appreciated Bafumbira All University Students Development Associations for thinking about them as some of them lack funds to buy soap and even food stuffs.
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The Batwa people are one of the oldest surviving indigenous tribes in the Districts of Kisoro, Kanungu, Bundibugyo who live high in the mountain forests, straddling several East African countries.
