COMMUNITY-IDENTIFIED PROBLEM Food Insecurity COMMUNITY-DESIGNED SOLUTION This community is currently in the MicroGrant process. Metric to measure progress: TBD Number of participants: 87
Background:
Ndatemwa Village in Gisagara is a community of Batwa living in the Southern Province of Rwanda. The Batwa are a resource poor and marginalized ethnic group, comprising about .4% of the country's population. Many members of the Gisagara community make and sell clay pots in the marketplace for a living, though this is a time consuming process that yields little return. Women walk two hours to collect clay for their pots, then they must walk miles to the nearest market where their pots cell for about $0.17. Soil in southern rwanda is far less fertile than that in the north, making it especially difficult to produce enough food during the dry seasons. Gisagara has also raised the concern of a jigger infestation, which can seriously affect quality of life. Facilitator: Gloriose Isugi Dada, Muhire Claude
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