For our supporters based in London, please join us at The Orchard Room, The Green Man from 6pm on Monday 18th September to Celebrate… 20 Years of Survivors Fund (SURF) We will be in The Orchard Room, Upstairs at The Green … Continue Reading »
Category: News
Youth Entrepreneurship Training Programme (YETP)
Skills, jobs and entrepreneurship are key to the well-being of young survivors and also contribute to strengthening the Rwandan economy. Survivors Fund (SURF) and AERG (National Association of Student Genocide Survivors) set up the Youth Entrepreneurship Training Programme (YETP) with … Continue Reading »
HIV+ Survivors Empowerment Project (SEP)
The HIV+ Survivors Empowerment Project (SEP) was started in April 2016 to provide holistic support to widowed survivors and their dependants, to reduce extreme poverty of widows and empower them to access available health services and reproductive health for their … Continue Reading »
CNLG and IBUKA call out UK Judiciary
CNLG, Ibuka urge UK judiciary to respect Rwanda’s judicial system. By Emmanuel Ntirenganya, The New Times. The decision of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruling out the extradition of five genocide suspects for trial in Rwanda … Continue Reading »
Good Gifts for Survivors
Through funding over many years from the Good Gifts Catalogue, an initiative of the Charities Advisory Trust, Survivors Fund (SURF) has extended support to thousands of widows and orphans that are beneficiaries of our ongoing livestock and livelihoods programme. This enables … Continue Reading »
Retreat for Women Genocide Survivors in Rwanda
This summer, Liliane Pari Umuhoza, returns to Survivors Fund (SURF) to program manage a Retreat for Women Genocide Survivors in Rwanda, a SURF project, in association with AVEGA Agahozo. The Retreat will bring together 30 women survivors for three days … Continue Reading »
Complicity of France
Rwanda: More Evidence Pins France On Genocide. By James Karuhanga, The New Times. Recent reports in the French media have been awash with damning evidence about France’s complicity in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. New revelations have, among others, … Continue Reading »
Memorial
880 More Families Wiped Out During Genocide Identified. By Emmanuel Ntirenganya, The New Times. Genocide survivors have this year identified 886 families whose 4,256 members were wiped out during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The families were identified in … Continue Reading »
Widows
Facing Life After Death of the Family Breadwinner. By Donah Mbabazi, Opinion, The New Times. It has been three hard years since Jeanine Mukabacondo lost her husband Patrick Kanyamibwa in a motor accident. After six years of courtship, the couple … Continue Reading »
Turning Pain into Hope
Rwanda’s children of rape are coming of age — against the odds. By Danielle Paquette, The Washington Post. Angel was 11 the last time her mother tried to kill her. She remembers the handful of rat poison pellets, the urging: Take … Continue Reading »