1. RWANDAN SURVIVORS IN THE UK SURVIVORS FUND (SURF)‏
DAVID RUSSELL
SURVIVORS FUND (SURF)‏
October 2009

2. History Mary Kayitesi Blewitt Constituted in 1997 Partner approach
Rwanda and UK

3. Philosophy By and for survivors “Just is” for survivors
Hearing and healing
Holistic approach

4. Population 400,000 survivors in Rwanda 1,500 survivors in the UK
1 million victims

5. SURF Rwanda In Rwanda we deliver… Education Healthcare Livelihoods
Memory
Shelter
... and more

6. SURF UK In the UK we deliver… Hardship Trauma counselling
Legal representation
Commemoration
Solidarity
... and more

7. Statistics
3,195 applications for asylum from Rwandans from 1999 to 2008
(of which 3,025 from 1999 to 2002)
475 granted asylum (0 since 2004)
900 granted humanitarian protection, exceptional or discretionary leave
(Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2008, Home Office Statistical Bulletin 14/09)

8. Issues
Trauma
Loneliness
Guilty conscious
Lack of Advocacy Voice

9. Response Annual commemoration event
Medical Foundation / Redress partnership
Hardship Grant programme
Hope Survivors Foundation (HSF)

10. Future Holocaust Survivors Centre Model
Intergenerational Inheritance of Trauma
Funding Dependent
Diaspora / Rwanda

11. What is success?
Self-sufficiency
Empowerment
Confidence
Livelihood

12. SUPPORTING SURVIVORS