In its continuing mission to “defeat hate with love,” Oklahoma City-based non-profit Fight for the Forgotten (FFTF) has teamed up with the UFC’s interim lightweight Champion of the World Dustin Poirier to knock out the water crisis for the Batwa Pygmy people of Western Uganda. Dustin and Jolie Poirier’s The Good Fight Foundation will be supporting community development projects in land, water, and food initiatives for the Batwa Pygmies, who FFTF co-founder and MMA heavyweight fighter Justin Wren calls “the most bullied people group in the world.”

“I was blown away when Jolie reached out to say Dustin and she felt like Fight For The Forgotten was their next cause to support,” says Justin. “Hearing their hearts, their passion, and their purpose, they are truly on a journey to fight the good fight.”

According to Wren, last September Fight For The Forgotten expanded their fight for clean water and community development from the Congo (DRC) to neighboring Uganda. Since then, Fight For The Forgotten has helped drill 14 new wells that’s serving more than 5,600 people. WaSH (Water, sanitation, and hygiene) training has been completed, and a new latrine and hand washing station is currently under construction. Land acquisition has begun in the name of the Batwa Pygmies, and their new five-acre farm has started producing soybeans, cabbage, tomatoes, rice, bananas, and cassava.

“On behalf of myself and The Good Fight Foundation I’d like to say how incredibly grateful we are to be joining forces with Fight For the Forgotten and their ongoing efforts to provide fresh and safe water to the Pygmy people of Uganda,” says Dustin Poirier. “Their living circumstances are unimaginable, and we want to do our part in changing that!

