Supporting Survivors of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda |
Survivors Fund (SURF) works in partnership with Iwacu Productions to bring high-quality handicrafts for sale in the UK, including a stunning range of necklaces, bracelets and other jewellery through the Rwandan Beauty website. On our recent visit to Rwanda we … Continue Reading »
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 »
Survivors Fund (SURF) Summer 2018 Newsletter As we near the end of summer, we share with you an update of our work in Rwanda over the past couple of months. Thank you to all our donors, both individuals as well … Continue Reading »
As a prelude to the publication of our Annual Report 2017-18, we feature from it a message from the Chief Executive of Survivors Fund (SURF), Samuel Munderere: During the year 2017, Survivors Fund (SURF) helped improve the lives of hundreds … Continue Reading »
As a prelude to the publication of our Annual Report 2017-18, we feature from it a message from the Chair of Survivors Fund (SURF), Sam Hunt: This has been a busy year of many challenges but also many successes for … Continue Reading »
The two-year HIV+ Survivors Empowerment Project (SEP) was funded by Comic Relief under their People Affected by HIV programme, starting up in April 2016 and concluding in March 2018. The project was coordinated by SURF and implemented by AVEGA Agahozo, … Continue Reading »
In the Sunday 8th April edition of The Sunday Times Magazine, a feature was published on “The Rwandan genocide 24 years on: what happened to the children born of rape?“in which journalist Christina Lamb meets Rwanda’s lost generation, whose Tutsi … Continue Reading »
With funding from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and in partnership with Survivors Fund (SURF), the National Student’s Association of Genocide Survivors in Rwanda (AERG) implemented the “Empowering Vulnerable Young Survivors who have left Secondary School to Create, … Continue Reading »
Last Friday a group of 30 counsellors from ten different local organisations completed a Foundation Course in Group Analysis. The training was made possible through a collaboration between Survivors Fund, the Institute of Group Analysis and AVEGA Agahozo. Group Analysis … Continue Reading »
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 »