SURF is enabling students to meet with and interview UK-based survivors of the Rwandan genocide about their lives before and after genocide, and experience during it, to preserve the vital oral history for posterity as well as for future education work in other schools.
Posts Tagged ‘Jean Louis Mazimpaka’
Holocaust Memorial Day
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Today, January 27th, marks the 65th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day.
SURF’s support of UK Survivors
Sunday, July 19th, 2009
SURF exists to provide support to Rwandan genocide survivors in both the UK and Rwanda. At present, we have three remarkable survivors that give voluntarily of their time to provide guidance and governance of our work as Trustees of SURF. The experience of one of them, Jean Louis Mazimpaka, was featured in The Guardian this weekend.
Raising awareness of survivors
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
SURF is fortunate to receive many requests from the media for comment and interviews on the situation of survivors in Rwanda today. When there is an opportunity to raise awareness of survivors’ issues, we always try meet them.