Current Events/News
SURF has planned an active year to mark its tenth year of serving the needs of survivors of the Rwandan genocide. Below are just some of the events and initiatives organised that will serve to help raise awareness and support survivors of the genocide – and mark the 10th Anniversary of the Survivors Fund.
With your help we can add more dates to the calendar. If you would like to include your event, then please email details to info@survivors-fund.org.uk.
Honour for SURF Founder and Director for Mary Kayitesi Blewitt
SURF Founder and Director, Mary Kayitesi Blewitt, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Years Honours List. Mary's award is in recognition of her work supporting survivors of the Rwandan genocide, in the UK and Rwanda, through the charity that she established ten years ago, Survivors Fund (SURF).
SURF celebrates awards raising the plight of survivors
Survivors Fund (SURF), the international charity representing and supporting survivors of the Rwandan genocide, celebrates two awards that have been dedicated to survivors of the genocide. SURF's Co-Chair, Liliane Umubyeyi, was named as Campaigner of the Year by Cosmopolitan Magazine at its Ultimate Woman of the Year Awards 2007. Liliane's award was announced on the same day, that photographer Jonathan Torgovnik was named the winner of the National Portrait Gallery's Photographic Portrait Prize for his work “Joseline Ingabire With Her Daughter Leah Batamuliza, Rwanda.”