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Yesterday marked the UK broadcast premiere of Deborah Scranton‘s remarkable film, Rwanda After Genocide. The film which premiered last year at the Tribeca Film Festival under the title Earth Made of Glass, tells the story of Jean-Pierre Sagahutu and his … Continue Reading »
At the end of each year Survivors Fund (SURF) launches an appeal to raise funds for one of our priority programmes, which this year is a call for funding to support our programme of sponsorship for young survivors at university. … Continue Reading »
Survivors Fund (SURF) is proud to announce that it is one of the pioneering ventures on buzzbank, the social venture hothouse. Buzzbank is an online marketplace connecting social ventures with backers, supporters and cheerleaders. Buzzbank backers find ventures they like and … Continue Reading »
IBUKA, the umbrella body of survivor’s organisations in Rwanda, published today its first newsletter, which reports news of the 15 members that operate under its umbrella. IBUKA will publish this newsletter at least twice a year, which will set out … Continue Reading »
Today, December 1st, is World AIDS Day. The theme this year is all about raising awareness to tackle HIV prejudice and help stop the spread of HIV. SURF’s new HIV+ Survivors Integration Project (SIP) funded by Comic Relief encompasses that work. Whilst in … Continue Reading »
Survivors Fund (SURF) is partnering with Msaada to support its Rwanda Marathon 2011. Msaada is a Dorset-based charity which like SURF supports the work of the Eastern Region branch of AVEGA Agahozo in Rwamagana. For the first time next year, Mssada … Continue Reading »
I am delighted to announce that Odette Kayirere, Coordinator of the Eastern Region branch of AVEGA Agahozo, has won the 2010 International Development Achievement Award, which is run by the Guardian in association with Marie Stopes International (MSI) and sponsored by … Continue Reading »
The following is an extract from “Trauma Transforms: Female Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide” by Denise Sandole, M.S. Denise, along with her supervisor, Professor Carl Auerbach, from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University in New York, came to … Continue Reading »
As I approach the end of my visit here in Rwanda, I thought to post some of the photos taken by our photographer, Drew Sutton, which illustrate some of the projects and partners with which SURF is currently working: I … Continue Reading »
On the journey back from my visit to Cyangugu, we took the stunning (but bumpy) Lake Kivu road to return to Kigali via Bisesero. Bisesero is the most significant site of resistance during the genocide. It is a place of … Continue Reading »