Supporting Survivors of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda |
SURF was awarded last year a grant of CHF 89,250 by the Addax & Oryx Foundation to deliver, in partnership with AVEGA, the Empowering Vulnerable Genocide Widows in Karongi District to Alleviate Extreme Poverty (EVKEP) Project. The project was launched … Continue Reading »
Happy Holidays to our extended Foundation Rwanda Family! Times are still hard for many survivors in Rwanda, particularly in light of the 25th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and the ongoing release of genocide convicts over … Continue Reading »
From the Network for Africa newsletter Not many charities say their aim is to close down. But Network for Africa’s vision is making a world where we are no longer needed. That is why we focus on training local people … Continue Reading »
Survivors Fund (SURF), and our partner Network for Africa, have both submitted short films directed by Andrew Sutton of Eco2 to the Charity Film Awards. Voting is now open, so your support in casting a vote for us would be … Continue Reading »
Each year Survivors Fund (SURF) publishes its Annual Report and Accounts, which are officially filed with the Charity Commission. Our 2018 report is now thus publicly available to download and read here. Below is an extract from the report, highlighting … Continue Reading »
Each year Survivors Fund (SURF) publishes its Annual Report and Accounts, which are officially filed with the Charity Commission. Our 2018 report is now thus publicly available to download and read here. Below is an extract from the report, highlighting … Continue Reading »
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2018/19, we outline here our current work on the AERG Legal and Counselling Helpline. The Legal and Counselling Helpline (Helpline) was established in August 2013 as a partnership between Survivors Fund … Continue Reading »
Every month, we publish an electronic newsletter with some key updates on our work. You can subscribe to it here, but to give you a flavour of what it contains we extract some highlights from our July Newsletter as below. … Continue Reading »
By Flora Drury, BBC News A 24-year-old Rwandan whose mother was raped in the genocide tells the BBC how he came to learn of the circumstances of his birth. Their names have been changed because of the shame surrounding rape, … Continue Reading »
As a prelude to the publication of our Annual Report 2018-19, we feature from it a summary of our ongoing work supporting innovation and entrepreneurship with young survivors of the genocide agains the Tutsi in Rwanda, and other related vulnerable … Continue Reading »