Centre d’Accompagnement des Autochtones Pygmées et Minoritaires Vulnérables (CAMV)

Centre d’Accompagnement des Autochtones Pygmées et Minoritaires Vulnérables (Centre of Assistance for Indigenous Pygmy Peoples and Vulnerable Minorities) -  CAMV, is a not-for-profit indigenous peoples’ organisation. It was formed as a response to the bitter realities observed by a group of Pygmies educated with the support of certain religious circles. This group examined the extreme difficulties suffered by their brothers and mankind in general: ignorance, poverty, profound illiteracy, marginalisation and social discrimination, exploitation, social stigmatisation, expulsion from the forests, deforestation etc. It was in the process of trying to find solutions to these problems that this group created the association CAMV on 2 February 1995 in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to protect and promote their causes.