Mbeiza Lynn Felicia
It was December 2019. A new disease was starting to sway in Wuhan China and then boom! To the whole world now. Washing hands, face masks and distancing socially has become the new normal and will definitely be for some time.
Despite the world’s efforts to control the virus, despite advertising on the different media, not so much thought had been put on the indigenous groups. The Batwa in Uganda’s Bwindi forest and as many as the estimated 84 tribes in the Amazon forest for example.
Without much formal education and hunting being their major activity, they probably can’t do much with deciphering the information about the disease. With all our technology, they haven’t been helped to know about COVID 19. How much they’ll be affected if the virus crosses into their borders remains my concern.
The goverment(s) haven’t like the other groups of people talked about them in the waged war against this 2019 virus. Probably because they live lives of trekking and being disseminated making it hard to get information to them at once. This doesn’t make them immune to the disease though and hook or crook, information must get to them like us, their fellow citizens. What makes it harder is that they live in a collection of trees.
They deserve to live. They deserve to survive COVID 19. They deserve to stay safe, they deserve to know. They don’t have hospitals like we do so they deserve maximum protection from the virus.
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Hi Mbeiza
Congrats on your story being chosen as a runner up,as a matter of interest do you know how badly these tribes have been affected by covid 19 ?
Hey Vijay. Thanks for your support.
Yes, I have seen that the tribes of the Amazon forest have been affected. This is partly because the governments haven’t put much effort in controlling the virus in the forests and their countries as a whole. What I’m not sure of though is the number of the people that are affected. In my own country Uganda, I haven’t heard of any case from the forests.
Thanks Clint
It’s afact bmbi thanks alot,
It’s afact bmbi thankx
Sure Mohammed
A lovely piece of writing 🙂
Please can you guys support me by viewing the ‘silent killer’ threat.
Thanks Paul
Good piece Lynn
Thanks Winnie
Nice one
Thank you Daniel and Ed
Nice one?
Breath taking
I checked Rehema. It’s a good one. Thanks for viewing mine too
Well done. View mine as well: The year of terror
Thanks Vijay
A thought provoking article,which should stir in us a desire to highlight the plight of forgotten tribes.
Beautiful, hope the audio can be shared and attributed to the author
Wow! that is amazing
They deserve to knw,they deserve to live thanx dear this z so legit
Very interesting ????
I think we have always left these people of the forest behind coz even themselves usually are not willing to learn and be informed. They have decided to remain conservative? I am asking my self how will you help someone who is not willing to be helped??
Thank. You Lynn for this article
It’s amazing that one in a million people on this planet can have a heart for the downtrodden…. We pray that God gives us a mind of compassion
Thanks people
Nice article.
Aww…this is so true…How considerate and thoughtful of you…Amazing article??
Gud article
They deserve to live
Gud article
They deserve to live
Well written ,nice article ….looking forward to reading more of these
Well written I’m happy about this my baby sis
Well written. Interesting
Well written and makes us aware of our fellow citizens living in different worlds. Govt, through the respective leadership/representatives should reach out to these people and others and make them aware of COVID-19 and how to prevent it’s spread.
Beautiful
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This is awesome???
When we get people who try to bring out wat is on the other side of the world then may be there is more to knw from u lynn thanks very much for that writeup
Thanks Victor, Viv Petra and Rosemary. Be sure to bring you more of these
Good work
I do believe that they r safe
Wow I hadn’t also thought of these people hope our government can take note
Cul
I swear l havent read even one letter but l think it is nice
Nice work
Please dont mind me it was a ka simple joke ..keep on reading otherwise it will be regarded as a sin?
Gud
That’s something many hadn’t noticed . Thanks for the great piece
A little on top of that, it’s a hard thing to make the illiterate understand such a thing eg the pygmy, the best thing the government can do is make their gatherings out of bounds from strangers, by this, their ignorance about the disease won’t be a big problem….. What a nice article
I hadn’t thought of this in this particular angle. I feel horrible but thanks for the enlightenment.
Welcome Rodgers
Great article.
Thanks Ceasor. Thanks for supplementing as well
Nice article. Well articulated.