To say that the Batwa people, a pygmy tribe in Uganda, are struggling seems an understatement. Driven from its ancestral forest in 1992, the tribe is afflicted by excruciating poverty and all the social ills that come along with losing home and livelihood.
Drug and alcohol abuse, HIV and environmental disasters have taken their toll. In 2002, when the last census was taken, the Batwa numbered only about 3,500.
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