Survivors Fund announce success of Christmas appeal
Howard Lake | 19 January 2005 | News
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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