SURF Chief Executive, Samuel Munderere, with winners of the storywriting competition launched with the Good Gifts Mobile Library

Good Gifts

Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2023/24, we outline here our work on our Good Gifts Initiative. Through funding from the Good Gifts Catalogue, an initiative of the Charities Advisory Trust, we have extended our support to … Continue Reading »

Sam Hunt, Chair of Survivors Fund (SURF) with residents of Ntarama Survivor's Village

SURF Annual Review 2024/25

As a prelude to the publication of our Annual Review 2024/25, we feature from it a message from the Chair of Survivors Fund (SURF), Sam Hunt MBE: In a rapidly changing world, SURF’s support for survivors of the Genocide against … Continue Reading »

INSPIRE!africa Visit 2025

“Now I have peace”

Earlier this June, a team from INSPIRE!Africa traveled from Canada to Rwanda to visit Survivors Fund (SURF) and meet some of the survivors whose lives have been transformed through their generous support. INSPIRE!africa has long partnered with SURF, backing key … Continue Reading »

Samuel Munderere

Annual Message from SURF CEO

As a prelude to the publication of our Annual Report 2024/25, we feature from it a message from the Chief Executive of Survivors Fund (SURF), Samuel Munderere: 2024 has been a year of hope and resilience. Despite the ongoing challenges … Continue Reading »

Foundation Rwanda Mothers and SURF Rwanda Team in Rubavu District

Solidarity

SURF Rwanda Team Supports Survivors of Genocide Rape During 31st Commemoration Rubavu District, Rwanda – April 2025 As part of the 31st Commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi, the Survivors Fund (SURF) Rwanda team conducted a solidarity visit to … Continue Reading »

His Excellency Johnston Busingye, High Commissioner of Rwanda to the UK, Councillor Richard Kemp, Lord Mayor of Liverpool, at the Liverpool Kwibuka 31 Commemoration

Liverpool Kwibuka 31 Commemoration

Survivors Fund (SURF) Trustee, Philomène Uwamaliya, along with the the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies at Liverpool Hope University, and the Merseyside Rwandan Community, organised this year’s Kwibuka 31 event in Liverpool to mark the Commemoration … Continue Reading »

Reaching Rwanda

Reaching Rwanda

Sandhurst School has been running its ground-breaking Reaching Rwanda project in partnership with Survivors Fund (SURF) since 2008. Pioneered by the Sandhurst School Deputy Head Sam Hunt, who is also Chair of SURF, the Reaching Rwanda project has worked extensively … Continue Reading »

Rwanda Rising

Rwanda Rising

Thirty-one years after the horrific 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the wounds of widespread rape, which resulted in an estimated 20,000 children, continue to deeply affect survivors and their families. These courageous mothers face immense challenges, grappling with … Continue Reading »

Kwibuka 31

Remembrance and Recovery

Rwanda’s healing journey: Survivors Fund’s commitment to remembrance and recovery By Cheyanne Bryan, Smiley News Each year, the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda provides a poignant moment to honour the lives lost, … Continue Reading »