Group Analysis Graduation

Group Analysis Training

Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2025/26, we outline here our work on our Group Analysis Training. Over the course of 2025, a group of professional counsellors in Rwanda had the opportunity to participate in a special … Continue Reading »

School Shoes Donation

Education and Shelter

Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2025/26, we outline here our work on our Education and Shelter work. Education Education is a fundamental right that enables people to break the cycle of deprivation and poverty. Survivors Fund … Continue Reading »

Samantha Hunt MBE, in collaboration Sandhurst School, and the Survivors Fund (SURF), officially opened Philly’s Place in Ntarama Sector, Bugesera District, on August 19. (Credit: Craish Bahizi, The New Times)

Philly’s Place

Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2025/26, we outline here our work on our Philly’s Place project. Central to the Reaching Rwanda programme is Philly’s Place, a unique children’s centre which opened in 2020 through the funding … Continue Reading »

AERG Legal & Counselling Helpline

Legal and Counselling Helpline

Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2025/26, we outline here our work on our Legal and Counselling Helpline. The Legal and Counselling Helpline was established in August 2013 as a partnership between Survivors Fund (SURF) and AERG  … Continue Reading »

Survivors Fund (SURF) Team

Impact Overview 2025

We are pleased to share our new Survivors Fund (SURF) Impact Overview 2025, highlighting the remarkable progress made alongside survivor-led organisations across Rwanda over the past year. Founded in 1997, Survivors Fund continues to work with an array of local … Continue Reading »

AERG Legal & Counselling Helpline

Legal and Counselling Helpline

Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2024/25, we outline here our work on our Legal and Counselling Helpline. The Legal and Counselling Helpline (Helpline) was established in August 2013 as a partnership between Survivors Fund (SURF) and … Continue Reading »

The Big Give 2025

Network for Africa Xmas Campaign

While the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi is well known, less understood is the lingering impact on survivors’ mental health and therefore their ability to lead normal lives and support themselves. Many orphans had to raise their siblings, some are single mothers … Continue Reading »

Philbert Gakwenzire, Chairperson of Ibuka, speaks during a commemoration event in Kigali in 2024 (The New Times)

Ibuka at 30

By Shallon Mwiza, The New Times Esperance Mukayuhi, 42, a mother of four and a survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, was left searching for the meaning of life in the aftermath of the tragedy that claimed many … Continue Reading »