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Transforming futures: Philly’s Place opens in Bugesera, offering free enrichment programmes for children By Alice Umutesi, The New Times Samantha Hunt, in collaboration with her school in England, Sandhurst School, and Survivors Fund (SURF), officially opened Philly’s Place in Ntarama … Continue Reading »
AGATHE is a multi-award-winning play by Angela J. Davis, directed by Mukul Ahmed and produced in the UK by Raminder Kaur. It tells the story of the life of an overlooked woman in world history, Agathe Uwilingiyimana. She was a Chemistry … Continue Reading »
To follow up on the publication of the new Strategic Plan of Survivors Fund (SURF) for 2024 to 2028, we will be publishing several posts to provide more context of our work – and implications for the the survivors of … Continue Reading »
The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2024, which takes place on 27th January, is Fragility of Freedom. Freedom means different things to different people. What is clear is that in every genocide that has taken place, those who are … Continue Reading »
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2022/23, we outline here our work on our Reaching Rwanda Project. Sandhurst School has been running its ground-breaking Reaching Rwanda project in partnership with Survivors Fund (SURF) since 2008. Pioneered by … Continue Reading »
Heritier Bahizi, The New Times The Alumni of Genocide Survivors’ Students Association (GAERG) hosted the ‘GAERG Youth Entrepreneurship and Employment Forum’ convening officials from the Ministry of Youth and the Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement, alongside GAERG youth … Continue Reading »
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2022/23, we outline here our work on our Foundation Rwanda programme. Through funding from Foundation Rwanda, Survivors Fund (SURF) is currently addressing the education and counselling needs of young people conceived … Continue Reading »
Can words kill? Can a radio broadcast fuel massacres? How susceptible are we to media manipulation? Rwanda, 1994. A radio broadcast sparks the most brutal genocide since the end of the Cold War. Rwandan society is swept away by the … Continue Reading »
The support from Good Gifts through the Charities Advisory Trust continues to be transformative for thousands of genocide survivors and their dependents across Rwanda. The impact of the funding from Good Gifts is enabling SURF and its local partner organisations … Continue Reading »
The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2023 is Ordinary People. It highlights the ordinary people who let genocide happen, the ordinary people who actively perpetrated genocide, and the ordinary people who were persecuted. And it prompts us to consider … Continue Reading »