# Survivors Fund announce success of Christmas appeal

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/01/19/survivors-fund-announce-success-christmas-appeal/
- Published: 2005-01-19T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Rwandan Survivors Fund (SURF)’s Christmas campaign, “One Month to Save the Life
of One Woman”, has raised over £6,000. This is enough money to provide anti-retroviral

treatment for one HIV+ Rwandan woman for the next ten years.
The campaign, which
asked supports to donate just £5, received donations from over 1000 people.

The Director of SURF, Mary Kayitesi-Blewitt, expressed her gratitude: “The support
that we have received for this campaign, and throughout our Ten

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Years On commemoration, has been incredible. In light of the recent Tsunami

disaster, it is even more amazing that we have raised so much.”

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