What Can the Pygmies Do?
Education is not easy for the pygmies to receive. In the forest, they had no use for it, so they don't have a tribal system to provide the education of reading and writing. When out of their forest, they are burdened with poverty, providing no opportunity to receive an education, even if they found someone willing to teach them.
However, education is the easiest way for pygmies to get a voice in a organization or government to get help. With an education, many would have more job opportunities to give them the money enable to help save their tribe, their tribal land. This does not mean, though, that education is the only way for them to help regain their way of life.
There is good news however. Pygmies such as Sinafasi Makelo (a Mbuti tribal member), has spoken to the UN about the troubles they are facing, including the cannibalism. He has requested that the act of cannibalism to be recognized as a genocidal and crimes against humanity act. The UN has been sending out investigators out, who has been reporting back to the UN with their data confirming the acts of cannibalism, rape, and house burnings. Additionally, pygmies had filed a complaint against the World Bank for threatening their traditional tribal lands and requested to recognized as indigenous people- and succeeded.
If more people knew about the Pygmy Genocide, if the UN sent people out to help, if the ICC recognized it as a genocide, if African countries recognized them as citizens, or the ones who were forced from their home are allowed to come home, the Pygmies could recover and start thriving again.
They just need help.