How Rwanda is aiding women widowed by the country’s 1994 genocide News Deeply, by Tendai Marima A dusty courtyard fills with chatter and laughter as the widows and widowers of the Impinganzima home for the elderly in Rwanda’s Eastern Province wait … Continue Reading »
Category: Partnership
Angel and Jacqueline
Sunlight streams through Angel’s window, catching her metallic hoop earrings. She sits at a wooden table next to her mother, Jacqueline. They split a loaf of bread for breakfast and wash it down with tea. Jacqueline sprinkles brown sugar into … Continue Reading »
Field Visits and Support for SURF
This week, Sam Munderere, Chief Executive of Survivors Fund (SURF) hosted two field visits, to demonstrate the vital work that the organisation continues to support. On Monday, Annemarie Hou, Chief of Staff and Director of the UNAIDS Executive Office visited … Continue Reading »
21st Anniversary of AERG
Young Genocide survivors on how they changed dark clouds. By Jean D’Amour Mbonyinshuti, The New Times. The resilience of young genocide survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi marks yet another success story. The young survivors grouped under the … Continue Reading »
More Good Gifts
Through funding from the Good Gifts Catalogue, an initiative of the Charities Advisory Trust, we have extended our support to thousands of widows and orphans that are beneficiaries of our ongoing livelihoods program, enabling them to become more independent and … Continue Reading »
Women Genocide Survivors Retreat
A Women Genocide Survivors Retreat was held in August 2017 in the Southern Province of Rwanda. The retreat brought together 30 women survivors of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It was organised by Liliane Pari Umuhoza, a former intern from … Continue Reading »
Legal and Counselling Helpline
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2016, which outline here our current work on the AERG Legal and Counselling Helpline. The helpline was established to fill the gap in support for young survivors with legal and mental … Continue Reading »
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 »
A Note from our Chief Executive
Each year Survivors Fund (SURF) publishes its Annual Report and Accounts, which are officially filed with the Charity Commission. They are thus publicly available to download and read here. Over the course of this month, we are sharing some of the … Continue Reading »