The Wire

Thousands of indigenous pygmies have been displaced from their forest homes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after decades of conflict. Many now live in camps on the outskirts of villages in the country’s east, where they have little, if any, access to basic services, and are subject to discrimination and abuse. Retired social work academic Dr Barbara Ferguson says the millions of dollars in aid money directed at the DRC has failed to change anything for this marginalized community. She’s set up a project with a group of pygmies to build houses, grow crops, and send children to school.