Supporting Survivors of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda |
Can words kill? Can a radio broadcast fuel massacres? How susceptible are we to media manipulation? Rwanda, 1994. A radio broadcast sparks the most brutal genocide since the end of the Cold War. Rwandan society is swept away by the … Continue Reading »
Today, Friday 7th April 2023, marks the start of kwibuka 29 (the 29th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda) and the commemoration of the UN International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi … Continue Reading »
The support from Good Gifts through the Charities Advisory Trust continues to be transformative for thousands of genocide survivors and their dependents across Rwanda. The impact of the funding from Good Gifts is enabling SURF and its local partner organisations … Continue Reading »
In a new article by Noam Schimmel in Peace Review: “Distorted Representations of Rwandan Tutsis in American Popular Culture: Ignorance, Racism, and the Hollywood Gaze“, he examines early musical, dance, and film representations of Rwandan Tutsis in American popular culture. … Continue Reading »
The support from Good Gifts through the Charities Advisory Trust continues to be transformative for thousands of genocide survivors and their dependents across Rwanda. The impact of the funding from Good Gifts is enabling SURF and its local partner organisations … Continue Reading »
From Peace Review Under the guest editorship of Dr. Noam Schimmel, Lecturer in International and Area Studies, UC, Berkeley, and Jacqueline Murekatete, Genocide Survivors Foundation Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice invites essays for a special issue on Special Issue on … Continue Reading »
A guest post by Rebecca Tinsley, Founder, Network for Africa On one of my early trips to Rwanda, in 2006, I took a group of friends to see our projects, hoping they would support our work. We visited a remote rural … Continue Reading »
The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2023 is Ordinary People. It highlights the ordinary people who let genocide happen, the ordinary people who actively perpetrated genocide, and the ordinary people who were persecuted. And it prompts us to consider … Continue Reading »
Through the support of the Good Gifts Catalogue we have been able to procure, configure and operationalise a second Mobile Library in Rwanda which will make books available to refugee camps in Rwanda, in partnership with Impact Hope. The vehicle … Continue Reading »
In a new paper in Peace Review, Noam Schimmel interviews Jacqueline Murekatete of Survivors Fund (SURF) partner organisation, Genocide Survivors Foundation, on “A Critical Perspective on Reconciliation in Rwanda: Toward Peace and Coexistence, Centering Genocide Survivors’ Human Rights, Dignity & … Continue Reading »
Help Rwanda’s most vulnerable genocide survivors and their families to rebuild their lives by enabling them to access healthcare, safer housing, better education and employment opportunities. Every penny of your donation goes directly to supporting survivors. In advance, we thank you dearly for your support!
