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 »
Category: Income Generating Activities
The Resilient Women of Abasangiye
This is cross-posted from the Indego Africa blog… In the midst of this flurry of exciting activity at Indego Africa, we could not resist the opportunity to momentarily pause and issue a special missive on the eye-opening progress we are … Continue Reading »
Donkey Work
In partnership with CREDI, a local Rwandan development organisation, with funding from the Good Gifts Catalogue, SURF has recently launched a rural women’s empowerment project with donkeys. Donkeys are not native to Rwanda, but following yearlong research, we identified a … Continue Reading »
Indego Africa
Through funding from the Alan and Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund, Survivors Fund (SURF) along with our partner Foundation Rwanda, have been supporting a special income generating project for a group of 25 women survivors of the Rwandan genocide. The project has … Continue Reading »
Comic Relief
I am delighted to announce that our application to Comic Relief for funding for a new project to support HIV+ women survivors has been successful! We have been awarded a two-year grant for £523,486. The HIV+ Survivors Integration Project (SIP) will … Continue Reading »
Reporting
A significant aspect of our work at Survivors Fund (SURF) is reporting – reporting on our own progress, that of our partner organisations, as well as the situation of survivors in Rwanda and the UK. During my current visit to … Continue Reading »
Livelihoods
A primary focus of SURF’s work is rebuilding the lives of survivors by working with our partner organisations to increase numbers of those with secure and sustainable livelihoods. Our largest funder in 2009 was the Charities Advisory Trust which, through … Continue Reading »
A week in Rwanda
I have just returned from a visit to Rwanda, on which I reported previously about our ongoing discussions with our partners on the priorities for our work ahead. The past week has been a busy one, and presents a good … Continue Reading »
Solace Ministries
One of the key partners of Survivors Fund (SURF) is Solace Ministries, a Christian-based survivor’s organisation which ministers to widows and orphans of the genocide in Rwanda. Established in 1995 by a survivor, Jean Gakwandi, SURF has supported its work which has … Continue Reading »
Income generating activities
Income generating activities are critical to enable survivors of the genocide in Rwanda to be self-sufficient. SURF is fortunate to receive funding from a number of sources to help support the income generating activities of our partners, such as AVEGA. In … Continue Reading »