Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2021/22, we outline here our work on our Foundation Rwanda programme. Through funding from Foundation Rwanda, Survivors Fund (SURF) is currently addressing the education and counselling needs of young people conceived … Continue Reading »
Category: Education
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 »
Philly’s Place
Chair of Survivors Fund (SURF), Samantha Hunt MBE, has launched a crowdfunder appeal with a target to try raise £60,000 to complete and equip Philly’s Place, a vital community and children’s education centre in Rwanda. As Sam writes…. Children in … Continue Reading »
Good Gifts Mobile Library
Through the support of the Good Gifts Catalogue we have been able to procure, configure and operationalise a new Mobile Library in Rwanda which will make books available to children in primary and secondary schools initially across Kigali, and then … Continue Reading »
Foundation Rwanda
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2019/20, we outline here our work on our Foundation Rwanda programme. Through funding from Foundation Rwanda, Survivors Fund (SURF) is currently addressing the education and counselling needs of young people conceived … Continue Reading »
Reaching Rwanda
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2020/21, we outline here our work on our Reaching Rwanda Project. Sandhurst School has been running its ground-breaking Reaching Rwanda project in partnership with Survivors Fund (SURF) since 2008. Pioneered by … Continue Reading »
Student association creates ‘families’ for genocide survivors
Jean d’Amour Mbonyinshuti, University World News Gilbert Gasigwa was just 10 years old when the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which orphaned him, began. As a consequence of the turmoil, he was uprooted and had to move from the Nyanza district in … Continue Reading »
FARG
FARG has spent Rwf 333 billion so far, has it lived up to expectations? By Nasra Bishumba, The New Times Since its inception in 1998, the Genocide Survivors Assistance Fund (FARG) has spent billions taking survivor children to school, building … Continue Reading »
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2021 is Be the light in the darkness. It encourages everyone to reflect on the depths humanity can sink to, but also the ways individuals and communities resisted that darkness to ‘be the … Continue Reading »
Reaching Rwanda 2020
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2019/20, we outline here our current work on our Reaching Rwanda project. Sandhurst School has been running its ground-breaking Reaching Rwanda project in partnership with Survivors Fund (SURF) since 2008. Pioneered … Continue Reading »