The Batwa are an indigenous people of the Great Lakes region of tropical Africa. Formerly hunter-gatherers, they were expelled from their ancestral forests to make way for conservation and tourism projects. They experience extreme racial discrimination from their neighbours, poverty, landlessness and unequal access to education and healthcare.

In Malawi, we worked with an HIV+ community group in M'deka, one hour drive outside Blantyre. This was carried out with GOAL, an Irish NGO who have been setting up these groups as a way of helping HIV+ people to support one another and change attitudes in the community to knowing your status.

InsightShare worked as part of wider programme team. Our focus was managing the targeting of so-called “hard to reach” groups through Participatory Video processes.