This month’s blog is written by Samuel Munderere, the director of our Rwandan partner Survivors Fund (SURF). More than three decades after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, the emotional and psychological scars for many survivors in Rwanda remain. Time has passed, but the pain of loss of family, of safety, of a childhood lingers […]

In 1995, two friends in Oregon created International Talk Like a Pirate Day. They wanted to mock the epidemic of commemorating people, things and events on special days. They were also taking aim at the folks who invent these celebrations in order to sell greetings cards, flowers and boxes of chocolates. Three decades later, Talk Like a […]

I’m running the London Marathon in April 2026 for Network for Africa – a challenge I’m both excited and slightly terrified to take on! But behind the miles and training runs is something far more meaningful: the opportunity to support communities in Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. Last November, I visited Sierra Leone – […]