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 »

Ange taking inventory at Unique One, her thriving liquor shop in Kigali. Thanks to a KYBORA microgrant, she's now able to support herself and her family (Credit: Serrah Galos)

Foundation Rwanda Impact Report

A guest post from our partner, Foundation Rwanda Last year, thanks to your generous support, we achieved incredible milestones. From empowering over 660 women and children through trauma counseling to creating the KYBORA initiative to provide 11 second-generation survivors and entrepreneurs with business training … Continue Reading »

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 2022/23, 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 »

An EVKREP Training Session

EVKREP

Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2022/23, we outline here our work on our Empowering Vulnerable Genocide Widows in Karongi and Rutsiro Districts to Alleviate Extreme Poverty (EVKREP) Project. Survivors Fund (SURF), in partnership with AVEGA Agahozo, … Continue Reading »

Members of GAERG and AERG during the celebration of the 20th Anniversary at Ntarama on March 4. Credit: The New Times

20 years of GAERG

From surviving to thriving: 20 years of GAERG empowering Genocide survivors, supporting Rwanda Patrick Nzabonimpa, The New Times For the past two decades, the Alumni of Genocide Survivors’ Students Association (GAERG) has been devoted to promoting resilience and providing assistance … Continue Reading »

Second-generation survivor and tech entrepreneur Paulin Nkusi with KYBORA CEO Alan Vanderborght and his son Lucas Vanderborght. (Photo Credit: Serrah Galos)

Foundation Rwanda and KYBORA

Foundation Rwanda and KYBORA Partner to Empower Second-Generation Survivors Foundation Rwanda and KYBORA, a leading global advisory firm and investment bank, have partnered to launch the Foundation Rwanda-KYBORA initiative which provides small business loans and comprehensive support to second-generation survivors in … Continue Reading »

Founder of Triple Investment Group, one of the businesses supported through the GAERG Investment Fund

GAERG Investment Fund

Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2021/22, we outline here our work on our GAERG Investment Fund. Groupe des Anciens Etudiants et Elèves Rescapés du Genocide (GAERG), an organisation founded by Rwandan Graduate Genocide survivors, runs an … Continue Reading »