Calls grow for UK to help bring 5 key Genocide suspects to book By Nasra Bishumba, The New Times Survivors of the genocide against the Tutsi have once again called on the United Kingdom to either put on trial or extradite five … Continue Reading »
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Testimonies
The Books and Story Library channel on YouTube is a platform through which Omar Ndizeye, a survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and author of Life and Death in Nyamata, posts interviews with other survivors as … Continue Reading »
Legal and Counselling Helpline
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2020/21, we outline here our work on our Legal and Counselling Helpline. The Legal and Counselling Helpline (Helpline) was established in August 2013 as a partnership between Survivors Fund (SURF) and … 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 »
Young Survivors Counselling Project
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2020/21, we outline here our work on our Young Survivors Counselling Project. Thousands of youthful survivors of the 1994 genocide are only now confronting the horror of seeing their families murdered. … Continue Reading »
Empowering Vulnerable Genocide Widows in Western Rwanda to Alleviate Extreme Poverty Project (EVWEP)
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2020/21, we outline here our work on our mpowering Vulnerable Genocide Widows in Western Rwanda to Alleviate Extreme Poverty (EVWEP) Project. Survivors Fund (SURF), in partnership with AVEGA Agahozo, were awarded … Continue Reading »
Good Gifts
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2020/21, we outline here our work on our Good Gifts Initiative. Through funding from the Good Gifts Catalogue, an initiative of the Charities Advisory Trust, we have extended our support to … Continue Reading »
The Closed Door Means I’m Busy, Dear
This is a guest post from Rebecca Tinsley, Founder of our partner, Network for Africa. Working from home during the pandemic has been a challenge for many people with children, or well-meaning friends and partners who don’t recognise that a … Continue Reading »
Community Counselling Initiative
Continuing our series of articles from our Annual Report 2020/21, we outline here our work on our Community Counselling Initiative. Through counselling for women victims of genocide rape, Survivors Fund (SURF) and Foundation Rwanda have provided counselling in a well-structured … Continue Reading »
EVKREP
Survivors Fund (SURF), in partnership with AVEGA Agahozo, have been awarded a grant of $93,604 for an 18-month project from the Addax & Oryx Foundation. The Empowering Vulnerable Genocide Widows in Karongi and Rutsiro Districts to Alleviate Extreme Poverty (EVKREP) … Continue Reading »