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 »
Category: Partnership
Retreat for Women Genocide Survivors in Rwanda
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 »
Widows
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 »
Innovation Fund
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 »
AERG / GAERG
Student survivors find healing through AERG. By Lydia Atieno, The New Times. After the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, many survivors lost their families and had no place to call home or a family to lean on. This is how … Continue Reading »
Support
Psychosocial support essential for survivors to live productive lives. In a few days from now, the country will once again for the 23rd time remember the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis. The killing of more than 1 million Tutsi caused … Continue Reading »
Rwamagana
Rwamagana Genocide widows get cows worth Rwf50m. By Kelly Rwamapera, The New Times. Twenty-five widows of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi were, on Thursday, given a hybrid dairy cow each under the national cattle-stocking programme, Girinka. The highly productive … Continue Reading »
Annual Report
We are pleased to announce the publication of the SURF Annual Report 2015/16, which presents an overview of our work over the past year. The Annual Report is a summation of the many projects and activities undertaken by Survivors Fund (SURF). … Continue Reading »
Iwacu
A short film about Iwacu Productions, a handicrafts cooperative which has been formed with the support of Clementine Munyaneza, a survivor of the genocide in Rwanda. In partnership with Survivors Fund (SURF). Filmed and edited by Kelsey Finnegan. Learn more, … Continue Reading »
Trustees
In July, three of the trustees from the Survivors Fund (SURF) UK Board, Sam Hunt (Chair), Adrian Veale (Treasurer) and Will Goodhand, visited Rwanda. The team undertook work with survivors providing business training for 50 young people from AERG (National Student’s Association of Genocide Survivors), … Continue Reading »