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SURF is looking for a new Trustee to take on the role of Treasurer. Trustees play an important part in our life and work. They give their own time and skills to supporting the most vulnerable in Rwanda, without financial recompense. … Continue Reading »
Genocide: Over 30 years later, survivors still await justice from UK From The New Times, 19th March 2025 One breezy evening in 2007, the Minister of Justice at the time, accompanied by the Prosecutor General and other officials from the … Continue Reading »
Genocide: Over 30 years later, survivors still await justice from UK From The New Times, 6th March 2025 The deportation this week of a one Ahmed Napoleon Mbonyunkiza from the United States for his role in the 1994 Genocide against … Continue Reading »
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2023/24, we outline here our work on our Community Counselling Initiative. Through counselling for women victims of genocide rape, Survivors Fund (SURF) and Foundation Rwanda have provided counselling in a well-structured … Continue Reading »
In a Special Issue of Peace Review on Reparative Justice in Africa, Dr Noam Schimmel interviewed Survivors Fund (SURF) Chief Executive, Samuel Munderere, and Survivors Fund (SURF) UK Coordinator, David Russell, on their views on reparative justice. In the introduction … Continue Reading »
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2023/24, we outline here our work on our Legal and Counselling Helpline. The Legal and Counselling Helpline (Helpline) was established in August 2013 as a partnership between Survivors Fund (SURF) and … Continue Reading »
The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2025, which takes place today, on 27th January, is For a Better Future. This Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp complex, … Continue Reading »
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2023/24, we outline here our work on our Counselling Enhanced Reach Project (CERP III). Survivors Fund (SURF) has developed and delivered an array of mental health projects to support survivors over … Continue Reading »
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2023/24, we outline here our work on our Youth Economic Empowerment Project (YEEP). In 2021, Clifford Chance and Survivors Fund launched the Youth Economic Empowerment Project (YEEP) to support the National … Continue Reading »
A powerful new short film, The Things We Don’t Say, by Ornella Mutoni is now streaming on the Guardian. Ornella writes about her own experience, and the making of the film, in an accompanying article, where she notes: “It follows … Continue Reading »