Supporting Survivors of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda |
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, 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
SURF Clinical Psychogist, Jemma Hogwood, is the lead author of a new academic paper “I Learned Who I Am”: Young People Born From Genocide Rape in Rwanda and Their Experiences of Disclosure.” The paper, published in this month’s Journal of … Continue Reading »
Graduate Genocide Survivors’ Organisation (GAERG), the association of student survivors of Genocide (AERG), and the Survivors Fund (SURF) have launched an entrepreneurship innovation fund intended to support youth’s income-generating projects. The fund, launched on Friday, started with $50,000 (Rwf40 million) … Continue Reading »