Supporting Survivors of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda |
Skills, jobs and entrepreneurship are key to the well-being of young survivors and also contribute to strengthening the Rwandan economy. Survivors Fund (SURF), AERG (National Association of Student Genocide Survivors) and GAERG (National Survivor’s Association of Graduate Students), with the … Continue Reading »
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2019/20, we outline here our work on our Legal Aid Forum Project. At the start of 2019, Survivors Fund (SURF) and our partner AERG secured a grant of around RWF 40 … Continue Reading »
As a prelude to the publication of our Annual Report 2019/20, we feature from it a message from the Chief Executive of Survivors Fund (SURF), Samuel Munderere: The past year has once again seen Survivors Fund (SURF) grow steadily, and … Continue Reading »
As a prelude to the publication of our Annual Review 2019/20, we feature from it a message from the Chair of Survivors Fund (SURF), Sam Hunt: It is my pleasure to introduce the 2019/20 Annual Report for Survivors Fund (SURF). … Continue Reading »
Mamie Philp first travelled to Rwanda in April 2019 to find out about the work of Survivors Fund (SURF), its partner agencies and the Reaching Rwanda programme. Her new book, Ten Days in Rwanda, describes her varied experiences during her … Continue Reading »
This is the final of three cases studies of participants in the Survivors Fund (SURF) and Foundation Rwanda Youth Camp programme. Case of B.D. Participant in Youth Camp 2019. “I grew up seeing my mother and the man I called … Continue Reading »
This is the first of three cases studies of participants in the Survivors Fund (SURF) and Foundation Rwanda Youth Camp programme. Case of U.C. Participant in Youth Camp 2017, 2019 I grew up sickly, had poor performances at school, took … Continue Reading »
This is the first of three cases studies of participants in the Survivors Fund (SURF) and Foundation Rwanda Youth Camp programme. Case of J.D. A Participant in Youth Camp 2018 I am a young man, 25 years old. I was … Continue Reading »
In a series of posts over the coming weeks we will profile participants in our Foundation Rwanda Youth Camps. As an introduction, we provide a summary of the programme here, which has been running since 2015 and has supported over … Continue Reading »
Two recent papers of interest with research on youth born of genocidal rape have been published, which we link to and showcase here. 1. ‘They Should See Us as a Symbol of Reconciliation’: Youth Born of Genocidal Rape in Rwanda … Continue Reading »