There are many good books on the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, though not that many which feature testimonies of the survivors. Survivors Fund (SURF) self-published Survival Against the Odds, and the founder of our partner organisation Foundation Rwanda, … Continue Reading »
Author: David Russell
Counselling Extension Response Project
Survivors Fund (SURF) has developed and delivered an array of mental health projects to support survivors over the past 20 years. Some of our mental health work is delivered through conducting counselling groups across the country through our local partner … Continue Reading »
Link of mother to daughter post-Genocide depression
A research conducted to demonstrate differences in trauma exposure in mothers and daughters according to their genocide survival status reveals a common link of depression among Rwandan mothers and their daughters 27 years after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. … Continue Reading »
SURF/AVEGA EVWEP Project Scores A+ from FCDO
The Empowering Vulnerable Genocide Widows in Western Rwanda to Alleviate Extreme Poverty (EVWEP) project is a partnership between Survivors Fund (SURF) and AVEGA Agahozo providing holistic support to widowed survivors of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and their … Continue Reading »
Good Gifts Mobile Library
Through the support of the Good Gifts Catalogue we have been able to procure, configure and operationalise a new Mobile Library in Rwanda which will make books available to children in primary and secondary schools initially across Kigali, and then … Continue Reading »
Youth survivors recognise Genocide rescuers
By Emmanuel Ntirenganya, The New Times The Association of Students Survivors of Genocide (AERG) and the Association of Graduates Genocide Survivors (GAERG) have given cows to people who rescued Tutsis during the Genocide against the Tutsi in recognition of their … Continue Reading »
Foundation Rwanda GoFundMe Appeal for Christine
A gust post by our partner Foundation Rwanda Want to join us in making a difference? Many of you know we started Foundation Rwanda (FR) in 2007 to empower women survivors of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and … Continue Reading »
ICTR could have done more to help Rwandan witnesses
By Alice Kagina, The New Times The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) could have done better to protect and support and offer protection to witnesses in court cases following the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, experts have said. This was … Continue Reading »
AERG to mark 25 years anniversary
By Bertrand Byishimo, The New Times The Association of Genocide Survivors Students (AERG) will on Saturday, November 6, mark 25 years’ anniversary of its existence, coinciding with 18 years’ anniversary for the Graduates Genocide Survivors Organization (GAERG). With a theme, … Continue Reading »
The Imputability of Belgium
In a new paper in the American Journal of International Law, Tom Ruys writes on the landmark case of “Mukeshimana-Ngulinzira and Others v. Belgium and Others”: On April 11, 1994, approximately two thousand men, women, and children were brutally murdered … Continue Reading »