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2025 Poster Updates Long-Term Results for Consortium of Universities for Global Health International Conference https://www.cugh2025.org/
These 25 development tools beat poverty and sustained progress for over a decade. We're scaling them up to Masoro and Kinyana, Rwanda, and Idjwi Island, Congo.
Scientific Abstract of Our Work, 2008-2025
16 year effort to develop poverty-alleviation tools for Batwa Pygmies produces significant, sustainable results ready for scale-up.
Population-based data supports our method.
Results from 2008 and 2011 population-based surveys show statistically significant community-wide poverty alleviation results using our development strategy.
A Village Success, From Begging to Small Business
Pygmy Survival Alliance has been working in a Batwa Pygmy village outside Kigali since 2008. In 2009, we saw the fruits of our unique approach to community development, when one woman from the village traveled to tell her story to another Batwa Pygmy village.
Pygmie Survival Alliance (PSA) In action
On 25 Sept 2010, PSA leader Karl Weyrauch, in conjunction with The Rwandan organization Health Development International-Rwanda (HDI-R) traveled to the village of Kabeza in eastern Rwanda to engage the people there. The team provided an immediate intervention of nutritional supplements for malnourished children, medicine to fight the pervasive intestinal worms, and shoes to prevent the transmission of skin worms through the feet.
The Abatwa (Pygmies): Challenges for a New Rwanda
