Survivors Fund (SURF) has supported a number of commemoration events in the UK, and further afield too, to mark the 19th Anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi. We supported the commemoration event of members of the Rwandan community living … Continue Reading »
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Fund for Survivors
This month marks the nineteenth anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The theme for this year’s commemoration is kwigira (self-reliance). Fostering self-reliance for genocide survivors is the bedrock on which all the work of Survivors Fund (SURF) is built. No … Continue Reading »
Esperanz
Esperanz was living in Ntarama during the genocide. When it started, she began grouping together with neighbors. After three days they decided to separate, some of them (including her husband and family) went to the school, others went to the … Continue Reading »
Study Tour
Last Thursday, 96 of the participants on the Widowed Survivors Empowerment Project (WSEP), funded by the UK Department for International Development, traveled from around Rwanda to meet in AVEGA East to partake in study tours. Every one of the 32 income-generating … Continue Reading »
Regret
On CNBC Meets tonight, the former United States President, Bill Clinton, publicly expressed regret for the second time on the US failure to stop the 1994 Tutsi genocide under his Administration, also referred to as “the preventable genocide.” President Clinton … Continue Reading »
Support
An excerpt from Supporting Survivors of Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities: EU Responsibilities by Noam Schimmel, published by the Huffington Post Given the extensive role of EU national aid agencies in funding development aid programs careful consideration must be … Continue Reading »
IWD 2013
Today (8th March) is International Women’s Day (IWD). The UN theme for IWD 2013 is “A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women.” The survivors of the genocide in 1994 are disproportionately women and girls, as … Continue Reading »
Benon
There are some weeks at Survivors Fund (SURF) which you wish you could just rewind, and hope they played out differently. Last week was one such week. Before attending the funeral of a good friend, and a good friend of … Continue Reading »
Guilty
Today, a Dutch court found Yvonne Basebya (Ntacyobatabara) guilty of instigation to commit genocide in the run up to and during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Basebya’s conviction confirms that perpetrators of the worst crimes can be held accountable irrespective of where … Continue Reading »
Mukasekuru
Mukasekuru is 49 years and one of the mothers supported by Foundation Rwanda she remarried after the genocide and has 3 children. One of those children and the oldest is Nyampinga 18 years old, she was born as a result … Continue Reading »
