Ruyigi’s Batwa pupils face a difficult return to school
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Iwacu Burundi
Batwa families in Ruyigi, Burundi, are struggling to finance the school year amid poverty, a lack of arable land and expenses for uniforms and shoes. Parents from Rwamvura hill, in the Kigamba area, describe the difficulties faced by their children, according to the account published in the article.
Batwa families on Rwamvura hill, in the Kigamba area of Burundi, are struggling to pay for their children’s schooling because of poverty and a lack of land to cultivate, according to parents of pupils in the area. Expenses include, in particular, the uniforms and shoes required at some schools.
Barnabé Ngendakumana, the parent of a Year 8 pupil, says his child was sent home from school for not having shoes covering his feet. The previous year, when the child was in Year 7, the family had already had to find a way to buy him slippers.
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