The support from Good Gifts through the Charities Advisory Trust continues to be transformative for thousands of genocide survivors and their dependents across Rwanda. The impact of the funding from Good Gifts is enabling SURF and its local partner organisations … Continue Reading »
Category: Partnership
CERP III
Due to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, survivors were not able to commemorate the loss of their loved ones during the annual commemoration period. Because of the government’s stay-at-home and COVID-19 prevention measures, it was not possible … Continue Reading »
20 years of GAERG
From surviving to thriving: 20 years of GAERG empowering Genocide survivors, supporting Rwanda Patrick Nzabonimpa, The New Times For the past two decades, the Alumni of Genocide Survivors’ Students Association (GAERG) has been devoted to promoting resilience and providing assistance … Continue Reading »
Good Gifts – Beekeeping
The support from Good Gifts through the Charities Advisory Trust continues to be transformative for thousands of genocide survivors and their dependents across Rwanda. The impact of the funding from Good Gifts is enabling SURF and its local partner organisations … Continue Reading »
Good Gifts – University support
The support from Good Gifts through the Charities Advisory Trust continues to be transformative for thousands of genocide survivors and their dependents across Rwanda. The impact of the funding from Good Gifts is enabling SURF and its local partner organisations … Continue Reading »
Hope and Strength in 2023
A guest post by Rebecca Tinsley, Founder, Network for Africa On one of my early trips to Rwanda, in 2006, I took a group of friends to see our projects, hoping they would support our work. We visited a remote rural … Continue Reading »
New Mobile Library
Through the support of the Good Gifts Catalogue we have been able to procure, configure and operationalise a second Mobile Library in Rwanda which will make books available to refugee camps in Rwanda, in partnership with Impact Hope. The vehicle … Continue Reading »
Reaching Rwanda 2022
After two years of planning, finally the long-awaited seventh Reaching Rwanda visit arrived in Kigali in July 2022. SURF Chair, Sam Hunt MBE, who developed the educational programme and led the first visit in 2010 in her professional role as … Continue Reading »
Legal and Counselling Helpline
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2021/22, 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 »
SURF’s Good Gifts Mobile Library
The Good Gifts Mobile Library has been serving more than 1,600 students at Rugando and Kimihurura primary schools. The project has been growing tremendously and it has made a great impact on the reading culture of the students. For some … Continue Reading »