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March 2010

March 2010 Main supporter Diane Arbus - A Retrospective, FOAM Amsterdam
Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most fascinating and important photographers of the second half of the 20th read more...

March 2010 School book project for primary schools, Northwest Cameroon
Knowledge for Children supports rural schools in Northwest Cameroon by building up a decent book stock and effectively read more...

March 2010 Programme for tutoring teenagers in South Kivu, D.R. Congo
ZOA Refugee Care wants to offer primary education in 3 years to youths from returnee families who missed one or more years read more...

March 2010 Main supporter Louise Bourgeois / Hans Bellmer - Double Sexus, Den Haag Municipal Museum
Louise Bourgeois (1911) is regarded as one of the most important artists still alive today. read more...

March 2010 Regreening Initiative, Niger
Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world, with three-quarters of its surface covered by desert and 85% of its population being entirely read more...

March 2010 Technical school, Passakongo, Burkina Faso
In 2002, the Háparako Foundation set up a vocational training centre for rural youths with the primary goal to create employment. Led by read more...

March 2010 New school, Mamfe, Kameroen
LiveBuild, in association with United Action for Children (UAC), wants to set up a high-quality school in Mamfe. UAC has already realised a similar read more...

March 2010 Music performance Who will tame the king?, 2010-2011
The Apollo Ensemble has specialized in baroque performances played with authentic instruments. In Who will tame the read more...

March 2010 Main patronage of the Ricciotti Ensemble 2010-2012
The Ricciotti Ensemble consists of 40 idealistic conservatory students, and performs a minimum of 100 times a year. They seek out read more...

March 2010 Building of a medical school in Kiliba, D.R. Congo
Focus on Education, in association with the local NGO Fondation Chirezi, wants to set up an intermediate vocational school for read more...

March 2010 Building of a technical school in Kambila, Mali
The Mali Foundation, in association with its local partner Solisa, will set up a basic technical school to provide some prospect read more...

March 2010 Rotterdam Opera days 2010: Alla Turca
The Rotterdam Opera days were founded in 2001 to make opera accessible to everyone. For ten days straight there will be concerts on read more...

March 2010 Container shipment for technical education, Tanzania
The Foundation for Refurbished Tools (Gered Gereedschap) collects and refurbishes tools and dispatches these to development read more...

March 2010 Teacher training in South Kivu, D.R. Congo
Children in Crisis is a British NGO that works on educational projects in post-conflict zones such as Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and read more...

March 2010 The Princess Christina Concours - Classical Express, 2010-2012
The Princess Christina Concours strives to excite as many children as possible for classical music. To that end, in read more...

March 2010 ICT Vocational Training Programmes, Nairobi, Kenia 2010
NairoBits is a Digital Design School in Kenya's capital Nairobi, founded by Butterfly Works. NairoBits is currently being read more...

March 2010 Social and financial skills for children, Ghana, 2010
Aflatoun provides children between the ages of 6 and 14 with important social and economic skills by teaching them about read more...

March 2010 Main Supporter of the Community Concerts of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, 2010
To make classical music more easily accessible to everyone, at least 30 concerts a year are played at unexpected venues for an audience that read more...

March 2010 Poetry in literary magazine De Gids 2010
The Dutch cultural and literary magazine read more...

March 2010 Farming and Livelihood Improvement Programme, Ghana 2010-2011
All over the world, SOS Kinderdorpen offers structural support to orphans and abandoned children. Over the past couple read more...

January 2010

January 2010 Research on treatment of early neuropathy in leprosy 2010-2013
The TENLEP Research Consortium (Treatment of Early Neuropathy in Leprosy) is a large international association in read more...

January 2010 Matisse to Malevich, Pioneers of modern art, Hermitage, Amsterdam, 2010
In Spring 2010, the Amsterdam Hermitage organises an exhibition of 75 master pieces by artists like read more...

January 2010 Main supporter 'How I Got There': Dongen's Road to Success, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, 2010-2011
Starting in September 2010, the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum will read more...

January 2010 Teacher training in Northern Cameroon, 2010-2012
VSO sends out vocational specialists to developing countries in Africa and Asia who can share their knowledge and experience with read more...

January 2010 Sustainable fish production, Oueme revier, Benin, 2010-2012
AquaDeD - Aquaculture et Développement Durable is a young NGO from Benin which especially aims to further develop read more...

January 2010 Main supporter National Poetry Day 2010-212
Every year, National Poetry Day ('Gedichtendag') puts poetry in the national spotlight. On 28 January 2010 over three hundred read more...

January 2010 Research on identification of innate and adaptive immune biomarkers 2010-2013
This LUMC (Leiden University Medical Centre) research gives more insight into certain immune read more...

January 2010 Biological cultivation of red pepper, Igbodja region, Benin, 2010-2011
Since 1993, the Beninese organisation Action Plus is active in the fields of agriculture, environment and read more...

January 2010 First Bach Festival, Dordrecht, 2010
The Bach Festival Dordrecht has the ambition to become the first biennial Bach festival in the Netherlands. It will offer 80 to 100 large and read more...

January 2010 Sustainable management of wetlands around Lake Doro, 2010-2011, Mali
9,500 people live in eight villages in the tidal area within the project region in South-West Mali: farmers, cattle-breeding nomads and fishermen. These people read more...

January 2010 Research on impact of preventive interventions on the transmission of M. Leprae, 2010
The Erasmus University of Rotterdam and the KIT (Royal Tropical Institute) are together doing read more...

January 2010 Extra classrooms and teacher training, Bona, Burkina Faso
The Association for Small African Projects labours to improve the welfare of inhabitants of nine poor villages in Western read more...

January 2010 Holland Festival 2010: A Tribute to Umm Kulthum
For many years, the Holland Festival has brought the world's best artists to the Netherlands. The 2010 edition of the festival read more...

January 2010 Main supporter Warenar by P.C. Hooft, 2010
The ambition of theatre company De Kale is to make classical poets and old Dutch texts accessible to a large Dutch audience. De Kale will read more...

January 2010 Income Generating Programma for Vocational Training, Kisumu, Kenia
The Ujima Foundation offers vocational education for underprivileged children of Nakuru and Kisumu who need to read more...

January 2010 The Coral Triangle Initiative
There is no place on earth that is home to such great biodiversity as the coral triangle. The Turing Foundation contributes € 3,000,000 to read more...

January 2010 Sustainable agriculture/forestry in the Missahoe Forest Reserve, 2010-2012, Togo
The IUCN is recovering part of a rainforest that has been seriously impoverished due to human activities, but still houses read more...

January 2010 Classical music in..., 2010
Classical music in … was founded to bring free classical music concerts to towns and cities that hardly have any classical music calendar at all. read more...

January 2010 The Music Factory, school- and family concerts, 2010
Calefax Reed Quintet has given more than 600 concerts in twenty countries since it was founded in 1985. The Times on read more...

January 2010 Construction of new elementary school classrooms, Gountoëto, Benin
The Le Pont Foundation is active in Benin in the field of education, health care, water and sanitation. In read more...

January 2010 Educational Programme for Orphanage, Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka 2009
The Sri Lanka Orphanage Foundation develops an orphanage in Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka for 300 orphans. Many of them read more...

January 2010 School Support Programme in the Upper Shiran Valley, Pakistan 2009
The Haashar Foundation of the Netherlands supports victims of the earthquake of 8 October 2005 in Northern read more...

October 2009

October 2009 Communal management of grazing land and forest restoration in Ségou - Mali
The agricultural region Ségou frequently suffers from food shortages caused by the exhaustion of read more...

October 2009 Illusion and Reality - Van Gogh Museum, 2010-2011
On 8 October 2010 an exhibition of Naturalist painting will be opened at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, presenting huge read more...

October 2009 Jobortunity Training Institute, Arusha, Tanzania
Jobortunity is a new training institute in the city of Arusha, Tanzania. Underprivileged young people can follow a one-year course read more...

October 2009 Introduction of organic gardening and 'night paddocks' - Cameroon
Njamnjama is a vegetable similar to spinach. In Cameroon the traditional production of this vegetable has not been read more...

October 2009 Protection of natural resources in Timbuktu - Mali
In ten villages in the Timbuktu region primarily women will be trained in organic market gardening and small livestock farming read more...

October 2009 Chamber Music Concerts for youngsters, Amsterdam
The IJ-Salon is a private initiative by members of the Concertgebouw Orchestra. The foundation wants to make first-rate chamber read more...

October 2009 Vocational Training Centre Olokii, Tanzania
Dorcas Hulp Nederland has set up a vocational training centre in the poor, rural outskirts of the city of Arusha. In 2009 the centre read more...

October 2009 Ecological sustainability and the promotion of (small) livestock farming - Burkina Faso
In this project Heifer and the Louis Bolk Institute collaborate in the neighbourhood of the read more...

October 2009 Sustainable Agricultural Programmes, Burkina Faso 2009
In Burkina Faso, the Hunger Project is working on the improvement of sustainable agricultural methods, the protection of affected parcels of forest, the read more...

October 2009 Grants for Talented Underprivileged Children, Ghana 2009-2010
The SmartKids Foundation helps talented underprivileged children in Ghana to go to a reputable secondary school. The children are read more...

October 2009 Forest conservation on small-scale cacao plantations, Wassa Amenfi District, Ghana
The Rural Environmental Care Association (RECA) focuses on the sustained use of land combined with read more...

October 2009 Sustainable management of the forest of Koubaye - Mali
This project aims to protect and restore 7,700 km2 of forest by making environmental agreements between the authorities of read more...

October 2009 Vincent van Gogh: the artist and his letters, 2009-2010
After years of of intensive research, Vincent van Gogh’s letters will be published in a 'definitive version': in five bound volumes with high-quality reproductions of all 2,000 works of art referred to in the letters read more...

October 2009 Introduction of the organic production of 'Niebe' - Burkina Faso
The floodplains around Lake Darkoye in the northwest of Burkina Faso are in the poor Sahel region, where read more...

October 2009 Main Supporter IDEAL consortium (Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy) 2009
This consortium of thirty Leprosy research groups will develop immunological tests in the coming years read more...

October 2009 Construction Primary School and Teacher Training College Chittachong, Bangladesh
GlobalCare4All retrains spinal cord lesion patients to become teachers - a profession they are still able to practise - thereby meeting an enormous need. 130 children read more...

October 2009 Developing organic vegetable gardens and orchards - Séguénéga, Burkina Faso
The Burkinan organisation ADECUSS will teach 300 women in the extremely poor and dry northern region of read more...

October 2009 Improvement of education for 1,500 children in Balochistan, Pakistan 2009
This Save the Children project will, among other things, provide ten schools with educational materials, trainings for teachers, read more...

October 2009 Education for 250 street children in Calcutta, India, 2009
A so-called 'Rainbow Home' is being realized in the Loreto Sealdah Day School in Calcutta. It accommodates 250 street children, and provides them with food, education, read more...

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July 2009

July 2009 Main supporter Theo van Doesburg and the Avant-Garde, de Lakenhal, Leiden, 2009-2010
Hundreds of works that have never been seen before in the Netherlands, from Van Doesburg, Mondriaan, Moholy-Nagy, Lissitzky and others, will be read more...

July 2009 Construction and equipment of a new Vocational Training Centre, Bamako, Mali
The Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland (SKN) is building a new vocational centre at the heart of the read more...

July 2009 Vocational Education for the Loita Maasai, Narok South District, Kenya
In Kenya, the Edukans Foundation works together with local organisation ILIDP to improve the accessibility of read more...

July 2009 Restoration and protection of local ecosystems, Région des Savanes, Togo
In the Région des Savanes in Northern Togo, a very poor region, the ecosystem is deteriorating at an read more...

July 2009 Bach Day - An Introduction to Bach at Dutch Primary Schools
The three-year project 'Bach Day' (Dag van Bach) focuses on primary schools across the country and introduces read more...

July 2009 Children's Opera based on Goethe's Faust, by Frank Groothof
Frank Groothof succeeds time and again in enthusing and exciting large groups of children with classical music. The read more...

July 2009 Vocational Education in Mai Mahiu, Kenya, 2009-2010
The Red een Kind Foundation supports children in developing countries who suffer from poverty, discrimination, disasters or read more...

July 2009 School Improvement Programme, Kenya
Net4Kids supports the School Improvement Programme in Kenya, launched by the organisation International Child Support. Representatives from read more...

July 2009 Main supporter Bram and Geer van Velde, Museum Belvédère, Friesland, 2010
The Belvédère Museum is preparing an exhibition on the work of artists and brothers Bram and Geer read more...

July 2009 Field Projects Leprosy Control in Cambodia 2009
The Leprosy Foundation works together with the CIOMAL organisation on Leprosy control in Cambodia. The quality of diagnostics is a read more...

July 2009 Free classical music at the Vondelpark 2009
On Sunday Summer mornings, renowned music ensembles render free classical music in the Amsterdam Vondelpark Theater. In 2009 read more...

July 2009 Construction and equipment for a new Vocational Training Centre, Kisumu, Kenya
Together with local organisations BIG Ltd and Pandipieri Centre, Vision, Commitment and Action in read more...

July 2009 Turing Car for the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum 2009-2010
A special ‘Turing Car’ will transport children from Rotterdam and surroundings to and from the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum free of charge. What’s more, each read more...

July 2009 Research on immunopathology of leprosy 2009-2010
The leprosy bacterium has a high affinity for Schwann cells - cells that form a protective layer around nerves read more...

July 2009 Foundation for Refugee Students UAF 2009
The UAF supports refugees and asylum seekers with a higher education in their further training and in finding work by means of providing money, advice and supervision. Around 300 UAF-students will graduate read more...

July 2009 School on Wheels, Cameroon
School on Wheels takes children to school, and teachers to children. Apart from reading and writing, children are taught practical skills and competences that they read more...

July 2009 Preservation of Natural Resources, Timbuktu, Mali t/m 2010
Because of years of draught and a fast population growth, the natural vegetation of the Timbuktu region is under pressure. Because of this read more...

July 2009 Computer rooms for Secondary Schools in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda 2009
Viafrica helps secondary schools to offer their students ICT education, and to ensure a well-educated middle class. Schools must take read more...

July 2009 Informal Skills Training Program, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009
The Edukans Foundation works on vocational and practically-oriented education for youth in Nairobi in a profession that they choose themselves and that they will later be able to practise independently. After that, they will apprentice themselves to read more...

July 2009 Field Projects Leprosy Control in Laos 2009
In Laos leprosy occurs mostly among minorities that are hard to reach. Mutilations are often severe and irreparable if the read more...

July 2009 Main patronage of the Ricciotti Ensemble 2009
The Ricciotti Ensemble consists of 40 idealistic students who give 100 concerts a year at venues such as care homes, prisons, schools and asylum centres, for people who hardly ever read more...

July 2009 Main Supporter of the Community Concerts of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, 2009
To make classical music more easily accessible to everyone, at least 30 concerts a year are played at unexpected venues for an audience that read more...

July 2009 Education in the Slum Area of Vila Cruzeiro in Rio de Janeiro 2009
The IBISS Foundation supports the most marginalized groups of Brazil. In the slums, children are hardly stimulated to go to school read more...

July 2009 Festival for Shanty Choirs 2009, Den Burg
The 50-headed Oudeschilder Visserskoor sings traditional fishermen's songs, not only at festivities but also in nursing homes and read more...

July 2009 Computer lessons, Philippines 2009
Zone One Tondo Organisation (ZOTO) is a popular movement which helps poor people of the Philippines aged 10 to 24, with education as well as read more...

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May 2009

May 2009 The Turing Art Grant 2009 - Mike Kelley, a retrospective, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2010-2011
The exhibition concept 'Mike Kelley, a Retrospective' submitted by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has won the €450.000 Turing Art Grant read more...

April 2009

April 2009 The Turing National Poetry Competition 2010
On 21 April 2009 the Turing National Poetry Competition was launched. This is the first national poetry competition that is open to read more...

April 2009 Main supporter "Made in Holland", Mauritshuis, The Hague, 2010-2011
In the Autumn of 2010 the Mauritshuis plans to organise an exhibition of 40 Dutch masterworks from the read more...

April 2009 Farming and Livelihood Improvement Programme, Ghana 2009
All over the world, SOS Kinderdorpen offers structural support to orphans and abandoned children. Over the past couple of read more...

April 2009 Construction and equipment of a primary school in Balandougou, Mali
The Dutch Mali Foundation and its regular Malinese partner Solisa support the local people in the hills read more...

April 2009 Exhibition 'Art and Games', Kortenhoef, 2009
The Kunst aan de Dijk Foundation has been organising exhibitions of Dutch painters for over 25 years. The foundation will exhibit a read more...

April 2009 Holland Festival 2009: Pitié
Since 1947 the annual Holland Festival has staged a wide array of impressive and high-profile artistic projects from all over the world, read more...

April 2009 Educational/Food Programme for 1180 children of Several Primary Schools in Thika, Kenya
The Macheo Children’s Centre in Thika, Kenya supports several primary schools by providing read more...

April 2009 International wind instruments festival On Wings! 2009
In June 2009 the city of Groningen will stage On Wings!, Holland's first wind instruments festival. Players of wind read more...

April 2009 Brisk Recorder Quartet Amsterdam, 2009-2010
Over the years, the Brisk Recorder Quartet has built a firm reputation, particularly when it comes to performances for children. BRISK is read more...

April 2009 Educational projects Liliane Foundation 2009
The Liliane Foundation provides direct, small-scale and tailor-made help to handicapped children in read more...

April 2009 Poetry anthologies 2009-2011
Publishing house Van Oorschot is planning to publish twelve beautifully printed hardcover anthologies in the course of four years. These anthologies read more...

April 2009 Matthew Passion by Residentie Bach Ensembles, 2009
Each year, the Residentie Bach Ensembles offer a varied concert programme of classical music, aiming to reach as many read more...

April 2009 Educational institute in Yatenga, Burkina Faso
The WOL Foundation is building an educational institute in Burkina Faso to further develop vocational training for rural youngsters in the region, and to prevent a relapse into illiteracy read more...

April 2009 Poetry in literary magazine De Gids 2009
The Dutch cultural and literary magazine read more...

April 2009 Construction and equipment of the secondary school for Kainam, Tanzania 2009-2010
The Kamitei Foundation invests in primary and secondary education for rural children in Tanzania. Kamitei supplies facilities and goods, but also training read more...

April 2009 Education for Aids Orphans and Street Children in Katutura, Namibia 2009
Stichting Pappa ensures that a group of 80 AIDS orphans and street children in Windhoek can go to school read more...

April 2009 Teaching programmes in children's homes, Doganovo and Roman, Bulgaria, 2007-2009
The Foundation Kindertehuizen Bulgarije supports five children's homes near Sofia, where 400 children read more...

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January 2009

January 2009 Main supporter National Poetry Day 2009
Every year, National Poetry Day ("Gedichtendag") puts poetry in the national spotlight. On 29 January 2009 over three hundred poetry-related read more...

January 2009 Construction and equipment of a trade school in Chepchoina, Kenya
The Elimu Mount Elgon Foundation facilitates educational initiatives in the Mount Elgon Region in Kenya. As part of read more...

January 2009 Technical and vocational training in Nyonko and Fada N'Gourma, Burkina Faso
By boosting technical training, ETC's Technical Training Programme focuses on human resource development read more...

January 2009 Main supporter Anton Mauve exhibitions, Singer Museum, Laren and Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 2009-2010
In the Autumn of 2009 The Singer Museum in Laren and the Teylers Museum in read more...

January 2009 Main supporter Meijer de Haan retrospective, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, 2009-2010
From 11 October 2009 the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam will present a generous read more...

January 2009 Construction and equipment of a school in Agome Anedi, Togo
Having collaborated with Les Compagnons Ruraux on nature conservation before, under the supervision of this Togolese read more...

January 2009 Vocational training for underprivileged young people in Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Vialisa Foundation's aim is to offer a more hopeful perspective to the underprivileged youth in the read more...

January 2009 Promotion and improvement of biological shea nut farming, Burkina Faso
For millions of African people, in particular women, the shea nut provides one of the most important sources read more...

January 2009 Chamber Opera Festival 2009
Zwolle's Chamber Orchestra Festival is the only festival dedicated exclusively to chamber opera and small-scale musical theatre. For as many as ten days read more...

January 2009 Construction of an ecological school in Sinia, D.R. Congo
The Wasmoeth Wildlife Foundation protects animals threatened with extinction. One of its projects is the establishment of a read more...

January 2009 Furnishing two school libraries in Kabul, Afghanistan
The Paymaan Foundation provides structural educational support to children in Afghanistan. Apart from financing the adoption of read more...

January 2009 Main supporter 'The Orchestra Kitchen'
The Holland Symfonia is one the major Dutch symphony orchestras, acting as the regular accompanist of the Dutch National Ballet and read more...

January 2009 The Turing Art Grant
One of the aims of the Turing Foundation is to enable a greater number of people to enjoy art in Dutch museums. This is why in December 2008 the Turing read more...

January 2009 Building two schools in Efa and Sofiè, Togo
The R.C. Maagdenhuis Foundation supports locally initiated small-scale projects in developing countries. A network of local advisors read more...

January 2009 Extension and furnishing of a school in Kuma Konda, Togo
Having collaborated with Les Compagnons Ruraux on nature conservation before, under the supervision of this Togolese read more...

January 2009 ICT Vocational Training Programmes, Nairobi, Kenia, 2009
NairoBits is a Digital Design School in Kenya's capital Nairobi, founded by Butterfly Works. NairoBits is currently being read more...

January 2009 Social and financial skills for children, Ghana, 2009
Aflatoun provides children between the ages of 6 and 14 with important social and economic skills by teaching them about rights read more...

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October 2008

October 2008 Establishing Lubombo Transfrontier Marine Protected Area, Mozambique/Zuid-Afrika
The Peace Parks Foundation is devoted to protecting those natural areas that are located across the read more...

October 2008 Main Supporter Paris Central, CoBrA Museum, Amstelveen, 2009-2010
The Cobra Movement was established in 1948 in Paris, the capital of European art of that time. In those read more...

October 2008 Main supporter 'Jan Lievens - A Dutch Master Rediscovered', Rembrandthuis Amsterdam, 2009
Jan Lievens was a prodigy child who lived in the seventeenth century. He established read more...

October 2008 Vocational training in Nairobi, Kenia
The mission of ChildsLife International is to improve the lives of needy children in developing countries. On the outskirts of the Kibera slum read more...

October 2008 Construction of a primary school in Isitu, Tanzania
Connect International supports small-scale sustainable self-help projects of local organisations in developing countries. The read more...

October 2008 Main Supporter Elizabeth Peyton exhibition, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, 2009-2010
The Bonnefanten Museum celebrates its 125th anniversary with several special exhibitions, such read more...

October 2008 Construction of a primary school in N'goro, Mali
The Dutch Mali Foundation and its permanent Malinese partner Solisa together support the community living in the hills around the read more...

October 2008 World Premiere Svadebka! The Village Wedding
Svadebka! De Dorpsbruiloft (The Village Wedding) is the completed version of Stravinsky's unfinished instrumentation of Les Noces by read more...

October 2008 Main Supporter of the Children's Concert of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Following the success of Benjamin's Orchestra in 2007, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will in read more...

October 2008 Opera per Tutti - Opera for everybody
Opera per Tutti puts on operas of good quality in an informal atmosphere. Parts of well-known or less famous operas are performed in a read more...

October 2008 Tools for Ghana
500 volunteers of the Gered Gereedschap Foundation collect and recycle used tools and send them on request to development projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. read more...

October 2008 Building a primary school in Sukuma, Laos
Child's Dream helps underprivileged children in the Mekong region by improving the social circumstances and the level of education. In the read more...

October 2008 Main Supporter of The Secret of Silence, Roermond, 2009
Stichting De Roermondse Kartuizers (The Carthusians of Roermond Foundation) organises the exhibition 'Het Geheim van read more...

October 2008 Vocational training in Mai Mahiu, Kenya, 2008
Red een Kind supports children in developing countries who are confronted with poverty, discrimination, disasters or diseases by means read more...

October 2008 School Library en Vocational Training Workshop, Wajir, Kenya
The Stichting Welzijn Wajir (Welfare Wajir Foundation) supports the poorest community in and around Wajir (North-Eastern read more...

October 2008 School Support Programme in the Upper Shiran Valley, Pakistan 2008
The Haashar Foundation of the Netherlands supports victims of the earthquake of 8 October 2005 in Northern read more...

October 2008 Ido Eco Community, Tanzania
Hugo van Lawick devoted his life to observing and capturing nature. He was married to Jane Goodall and is a legend in Tanzania. The foundation read more...

October 2008 Christmas concerts Händel and Purcell, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Emmen
Capella Frisiae is a professional chamber choir which is well-known in the North of the Netherlands. At the read more...

October 2008 The letters of Vincent van Gogh, 2008-2009
After years of of intensive research, Vincent van Gogh’s letters will be published in a 'definitive version': in five bound volumes with high-quality reproductions of all 2,000 works of art referred to in the letters read more...

October 2008 Improvement of vocational training in Nyakabiga, Burundi 2008
SOS Children's Villages is particularly known for the special 'villages' they have built in more than 100 countries, where orphans can read more...

October 2008 Improvement of education for 1,500 children in Balochistan, Pakistan 2008-2009
This Save the Children project will, among other things, provide ten schools with educational materials, trainings for teachers, read more...

October 2008 Education for 250 street children in Calcutta, India, 2007-2009
A so-called 'Rainbow Home' is being realized in the Loreto Sealdah Day School in Calcutta. It accommodates 250 street children, and provides them with food, education, read more...

October 2008 Main Supporter of the Community Concerts of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra 2008
To make classical music more easily accessible to everyone, at least 30 concerts a year are played at unexpected venues for an audience that read more...

October 2008 Computer lessons, Philippines 2008
Zone One Tondo Organisation (ZOTO) is a popular movement which helps poor people of the Philippines aged 10 to 24, with education as well as read more...

July 2008

July 2008 Main Supporter Retrospective Exhibition Jan van Scorel, Centraal Museum Utrecht, 2009
Jan van Scorel was one of the first Dutch painters to practice the new Renaissance style of painting. The Centraal Museum of Utrecht read more...

July 2008 Grants for Talented Underprivileged Children, Ghana 2008
The SmartKids Foundation helps talented underprivileged children in Ghana to go to a reputable secondary school. The children are read more...

July 2008 Main Supporter IDEAL consortium (Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy) 2008
This consortium of thirty Leprosy research groups will develop immunological tests in the coming years read more...

July 2008 Haaglanden Chamber Music Festival 2008
Haaglanden Chamber Music Festival explicitly aims to interest also the younger generation in chamber music. In 2008 the festival read more...

July 2008 The Amsterdam Cello Biennale 2008
This two-yearly international cello festival offers specialist performances, but is at the same time directed at a broad audience from all over the Netherlands, presenting easily accessible activities and cello concerts read more...

July 2008 Vocational Programme Organic Food Production, Sanka, Ghana
The Bebo Bakery Foundation sets up a training centre for biological food production in Sanka, Ghana. 20 young women are trained to read more...

July 2008 Teacher Training Underprivileged Youth, Manyu Division, Cameroon 2008
The remote province of Manyu Division in Cameroon has an urgent lack of qualified teachers. The ABCD Foundation pays for the tuition of underprivileged read more...

July 2008 Community Forest, Bamenda High Mountains, Cameroon, 2008-2010
ANCO introduces and stimulates sustainable agriculture and other types of sustainable sources of income read more...

July 2008 The Coral Triangle Initiative
There is no place on earth that is home to such great biodiversity as the coral triangle. The Turing Foundation contributes € 3,000,000 to read more...

July 2008 Educational/Food Programme for 1180 children of Several Primary Schools in Thika, Kenya
The Macheo Children’s Centre in Thika, Kenya supports several primary schools by providing read more...

July 2008 Construction Primary School and Teacher Training College Chittachong, Bangladesh
GlobalCare4All retrains spinal cord lesion patients to become teachers - a profession they are still able to practise - thereby meeting an enormous need. 130 children read more...

July 2008 Contemporary Art Exhibition: Not Normal, Beurs van Berlage, 2009-2010
The manifestation Not Normal - Difference on Display is centred on an international visual art exhibition displaying paintings by Marlene Dumas, Louise Bourgeois, Luc Tuymans, Marc Quinn read more...

July 2008 Music Theatre Vincent van Gogh, a Life in Paintings
The most recent music theatre production by Frank Groothof shows the life of Van Gogh, accompanied by music from contemporaries of Van Gogh - like Mendelssohn, Satie, Fauré read more...

July 2008 Construction of a Primary School in Dangbo, Benin
The Le Pont Foundation constructs schools in Benin that are provided with teachers by the government and are run on parental contributions. In 2008 a new primary school for 100 children read more...

July 2008 School Books for Developing Countries
The Read to Grow Foundation collects second-hand recreational and school books and sends them to village schools in developing countries read more...

July 2008 Sustainable Agricultural Programmes, Burkina Faso 2008
In Burkina Faso, the Hunger Project is working on the improvement of sustainable agricultural methods, the protection of affected parcels of forest, the read more...

July 2008 Restoration of Mountain Forests by Introduction of Analogue Forestry, Bamenda High Mountains, Cameroon, 2008-2010
The high mountains of Bamenda are sometimes referred to as the storehouse of Cameroon read more...

July 2008 Education for Aids Orphans and Street Children in Katutura, Namibia 2008
Stichting Pappa ensures that a group of 80 AIDS orphans and street children in Windhoek can go to school read more...

July 2008 Classical Music Performances for Small Children, Utrecht, 2008-2009
The MEMO Foundation puts small children - who are still fully receptive - into contact with live classical music. This year, MEMO plans read more...

July 2008 Sustainable Cocoa Production Eastern and Ashanti Region, Ghana, 2008-2010
As in many other countries, the production of cocoa leads to serious deforestation and forest degradation in Ghana read more...

July 2008 Educational Programme for Orphanage, Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka 2008
The Sri Lanka Orphanage Foundation constructs and develops an orphanage in Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka for 300 orphans. Many of them read more...

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May 2008

May 2008 Turing Car for the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum 2008
A special ‘Turing Car’ will transport children from Rotterdam and surroundings to and from the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum free of charge. What’s more, each read more...

May 2008 Construction and equipment of a primary school, Kisantu, D.R. Congo
The Bambale Foundation focuses on education, agriculture and health care in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The foundation is now building durable educational facilities read more...

May 2008 Field Projects Leprosy Control in Cambodia 2008
The Leprosy Foundation works together with the CIOMAL organisation on Leprosy control in Cambodia. The quality of diagnostics is a read more...

May 2008 Rossini's Opera Il Turco In Italia, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble
The ‘Nederlands Blazers Ensemble (NBE)’ has created a 'new' opera genre - the chamber opera – suitable to be performed at all kinds of locations. The music is well-accessible for read more...

May 2008 School on Wheels, Cameroon, 2008
School on Wheels takes children to school, and teachers to children. Apart from reading and writing, children are taught practical skills and competences that they read more...

May 2008 Wouter van Bemmel "Persweeën"
The sound of printing presses running and the Monotype pouring machine form the basis of this piece of music by Wouter van Bemmel. The composition will read more...

May 2008 Music Theatre "Ik en de Koningin", Max Tak
Children who have never before seen an orchestra perform live, and have no knowledge of classical music, can in this show read more...

May 2008 Preservation of Natural Resources, Timbuktu, Mali, 2008
Because of years of draught and a fast population growth, the natural vegetation of the Timbuktu region is under pressure. Because of this read more...

May 2008 Field Projects Leprosy Control in Laos 2008
In Laos leprosy occurs mostly among minorities that are hard to reach. Mutilations are often severe and irreparable if the read more...

May 2008 Noorderkerk Concerts: Marketplace for Music 2008
The Noorderkerk Concerts Foundation each year performs a series of 30 to 35 short, easily accessible concerts of high quality in an informal atmosphere. read more...

May 2008 Poetry Circus 2008
The Poetry Circus organises literature and poetry performances for a young, new and varied audience, such as the Poetry Slam. The combination of experienced poets and new talent turns out to be a great success. read more...

May 2008 Informal Skills Training Program, Nairobi, Kenya, 2008
The Edukans Foundation works on vocational and practically-oriented education for youth in Nairobi in a profession that they choose themselves and that they will later be able to practise independently. After that, they will apprentice themselves to read more...

May 2008 Foundation for Refugee Students UAF 2008
The UAF supports refugees and asylum seekers with a higher education in their further training and in finding work by means of providing money, advice and supervision. Around 300 UAF-students will graduate read more...

May 2008 Delft Chamber Music Festival 2008
The Delft Chamber Music Festival has been organising performances of chamber music in the summer months for over 20 years. Every year, around 6,000 music lovers visit read more...

May 2008 Main patronage of the Ricciotti Ensemble 2008
The Ricciotti Ensemble consists of 40 idealistic students who give 100 concerts a year at venues such as care homes, prisons, schools and asylum centres, for people who hardly ever read more...

May 2008 Educational institute in Yatenga, Burkina Faso
The WOL Foundation is building an educational institute in Burkina Faso to further develop vocational training for rural youngsters in the region, and to prevent a relapse into illiteracy read more...

May 2008 Education in the Slum Area of Vila Cruzeiro in Rio de Janeiro 2008
The IBISS Foundation supports the most marginalized groups of Brazil. In the slums, children are hardly stimulated to go to school read more...

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February 2008

February 2008 Construction Macha Innovative Community School, Macha, Zambia
PrivaServe increases the independence and autonomy of the rural population in developing countries. read more...

February 2008 Poetry in literary magazine De Gids 2008
The Dutch cultural and literary magazine read more...

February 2008 Holland Festival 2008: La Pasion segun San Marcos
International art critics have called it "the first masterpiece of the 21st century". In this swinging, large choral work, the Argentinean composer read more...

February 2008 Support for URDT Girls School, Kibaale, Uganda
The Ugandan URDT trains people in the district of Kibaale, Uganda, who have to live on less than $1 per day. The URDT Girls School offers training read more...

February 2008 Young Africa Skills Center, Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
Young Africa offers support in the education of underprivileged young people between 15 and 25 years of age. Repro-ducible model projects read more...

February 2008 Van Oorschot poetry anthologies 2008
Twelve beautifully printed hardcover anthologies will be published in the coming four years. Featuring the very best poems by excellent Dutch poets presented by well-known read more...

February 2008 Free classical Music Evenings in the Vondelpark 2008
On Thursday Summer nights, renowned music ensembles render free classical music in the Amsterdam Vondelpark Openluchttheater. In 2008 read more...

February 2008 Computer rooms for secondary schools in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda 2008
Viafrica helps secondary schools to offer their students ICT education, and to ensure a well-educated middle class. Schools must take read more...

February 2008 Construction and equipment of the secondary school for Kainam, Tanzania 2008
The Kamitei Foundation invests in primary and secondary education for rural children in Tanzania. Kamitei supplies facilities and goods, but also training read more...

February 2008 The 'Zwoele Zomeravonden' of the Kröller-Müller Museum, 2008
The Kröller-Müller Museum is famous for its collection and its sculpture garden. To increase the interest in the collection and reach new audiences read more...

February 2008 Teaching programmes in children's homes, Doganovo and Roman, Bulgaria, 2007-2009
The Foundation Kindertehuizen Bulgarije supports five children's homes near Sofia, where 400 children read more...

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November 2007

November 2007 € 1.000.000,- for sustainable IUCN agricultural projects in Africa
After the realization of several successful projects within the Small Grants Programme of IUCN Nederland, the Turing Foundation has decided read more...

November 2007 Improvement of vocational training in Nyakabiga, Burundi 2007
SOS Children's Villages is particularly known for the special 'villages' they have built in more than 100 countries, where orphans can read more...

November 2007 Support for the schools in North-West Thailand
The Samsara Foundation organises concrete and small-scaled projects for the improvement of education in North-West Thailand, where 25,000 underprivileged children read more...

November 2007 Main supporter of 'Back to Zeeland', Zeeuws Museum, 2008
In the first large Summer exhibition at the renewed Zeeuws Museum, important showpieces from read more...

November 2007 De Week van de Poëzie 2008 ('First Love')
At least 60 poetry events are taking place in April 2008, organised by libraries, book shops, publishers and read more...

November 2007 Educational projects Liliane Foundation 2008
The Liliane Foundation provides direct, small-scale and tailor-made help to handicapped children in read more...

November 2007 Construction and renovation of the Milalani Primary School, Msambweni, Kenya
The Twiga Foundation focuses on education in Msambweni, Kenya and contributes to quality read more...

November 2007 Matthew Passion translated/adapted by Jan Rot, 2008
The Residentie Bach Ensembles offer a varied concert programme of classical music in 2008 and 2009, aiming to reach as many young people read more...

November 2007 Family show of Gershwin's Porgy & Bess
With his opera arrangements, Frank Groothof succeeds time and again in enthusing and exciting large groups of children read more...

November 2007 Concerts of the World Orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales
Under the inspiring baton of the young Spanish conductor Josep Vincent, the World Orchestra will give four concerts in January 2008 read more...

November 2007 Kuloro Skills Training Centre, Gambia
Net4Kids funds a training centre in Kuloro, Gambia, which provides training for 100 young people in skills such as batik, tie & dye, sewing, soap making, preparing food read more...

November 2007 Poetry anthology 'Jou Willen Is Je Missen'
The thematic poetry anthology 'Jou Willen Is Je Missen' of Dutch poems about love is published read more...

September 2007

September 2007 Ecosystem Management for the Murciellagos Bay, Philippines
Murciellagos Bay is a breeding ground of important and diverse ecosystems, coral reefs, mangrove forests, sea grass beds and rare read more...

September 2007 Building of a school in Kenenkou, Mali
The Dutch Mali Foundation supports the population in the vicinity of Bamako in Mali. One of its projects is the building of a secondary school with a capacity of 200 to 300 pupils read more...

September 2007 LUMC research "Immunopathology of leprosy: dissecting mechanisms of immune-mediated tissue damage in leprosy, and identification of new targets for intervention" 2007-2008
The leprosy bacterium has a high affinity for Schwann cells - cells that form a protective layer around nerves read more...

September 2007 Education for 250 street children in Calcutta, India, 2007-2009
A so-called 'Rainbow Home' is being realized in the Loreto Sealdah Day School in Calcutta. It accommodates 250 street children, and provides them with food, education, read more...

September 2007 Main supporter Gedichtendag 2008
Poem Day brings poetry to the notice on a national level. 300 poetry activities are taking place on or around 31 January. Newspapers will publish poems, poetry will be read on radio and TV read more...

September 2007 Sustainable management of the biodiversity in the Lamit Bay, Philippines
The biodiversity of the Lamit Bay is threatened by commercial overfishing and dynamite fishing. The local community will cooperate to create a network of read more...

September 2007 Practical Textile Training Room and Art Room for Architecture/Engineering, Moengo, Surinam
The STOOM Foundation supports the improvement of the Barronschool, which is the sole vocational school in Moengo. At this moment, the 450 pupils lack the classrooms and read more...

September 2007 Improvement of education for 1,500 children in Balochistan, Pakistan 2007
This Save the Children project will, among other things, provide ten schools with educational materials, trainings for teachers, read more...

July 2007

July 2007 The Coral Triangle Initiative
There is no place on earth that is home to such great biodiversity as the coral triangle. The Turing Foundation contributes € 3,000,000 to read more...

July 2007 Educational institute in Yatenga, Burkina Faso, 2007-2009
The WOL Foundation is building an educational institute in Burkina Faso to further develop vocational training for rural youngsters in the region, and to prevent a relapse into illiteracy read more...

July 2007 Sustainable management of wetlands around Lake Doro, 2007-2009, Mali
9,500 people live in eight villages in the tidal area within the project region in South-West Mali: farmers, cattle-breeding nomads and fishermen. These people read more...

July 2007 Main supporter Dutch Primitives: Painters from the Late Middle Ages, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2008
For the first time in over fifty years, there will be an exhibition on the origin of Dutch painting in read more...

July 2007 Enlargement of a school in Lomé, Togo
The Een School in Togo Foundation built a private 'model school' for 300 children in Lomé, Togo. The school offers education for children between 6 and read more...

July 2007 Dungonab Bay and Sanganeb Atoll Marine National Park, Sudan
African Parks helps the Sudanese government in managing, conserving and restoring two national parks. The Turing Foundation contributes 1 million euros to the Sanganeb Atoll Marine read more...

July 2007 The 10th Grachtenfestival of Amsterdam
During this yearly music festival, performances of classical music in special locations in the historic town centre of Amsterdam and special concerts in read more...

July 2007 Computer rooms for secondary schools in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda 2007
Viafrica helps secondary schools to provide an ICT curriculum. The schools must themselves take the initiative, for example by read more...

July 2007 Sustainable agriculture/forestry in the Missahoe Forest Reserve, 2007-2009, Togo
The IUCN is recovering part of a rainforest that has been seriously impoverished due to human activities, but still houses read more...

July 2007 Sustainable small-scaled agriculture in Borgou, Benin
In Benin, the IUCN and the CRFA work on alternative and improved agricultural systems around the Antisua community forest read more...

July 2007 Main supporter Unknown Modern Masterpieces from Moscow, Jewish Historical Museum, 2007-2008
The Jewish Historical Museum presents unknown masterpieces by Russian-Jewish artists from the period 1910-1940. The Turing Foundation is the main sponsor of the exhibition read more...

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May 2007

May 2007 School books for developing countries
The Read to Grow Foundation collects second-hand recreational books and textbooks and sends them to village schools in developing countries where read more...

May 2007 Education in the slum of Vila Cruzeiro in Rio de Janeiro 2007
The IBISS Foundation supports the most marginalized groups of Brazil. In the slums, children are hardly stimulated to go to school read more...

May 2007 Main Supporter of the Community Concerts of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, 2008-2010
To make classical music more easily accessible to everyone, at least 30 concerts a year are played at unexpected venues for an audience that read more...

May 2007 Opera 'Khadish/Erwartung'
A group of young and idealistic musicians produces a 'true contemporary opera', an artistic whole, composed of read more...

March 2007

March 2007 Main supporter 'The De Bray Family', Frans Hals Museum, 2008
In 2008, the Frans Hals Museum of Haarlem is setting up a special exhibition on the painters of the seventeenth century De Bray family. The Turing Foundation will be the main read more...

March 2007 Education and food programme for 550 children of the Kianjau Primary School, Kenya, 2007-2009
The Macheo Children’s Centre in Thika, Kenya runs a children's home, and supports the nearby Primary School. Everyone in the slum of Kiandutu can read more...

March 2007 Education for AIDS orphans and street children in Katutura, Namibia 2007
Stichting Pappa ensures that a group of 100 AIDS orphans and street children in Katutura, Windhoek can go to school. Tuition, uniforms and read more...

March 2007 38th Poetry International Festival
The theme for 2007 of this leading international poetry festival is the relation between poetry, insanity and melancholy. Several international read more...

March 2007 Free classical music in the Vondelpark 2007
On eleven Thursday nights in June, July and August, free classical music concerts are played by renowned music ensembles at the central park of read more...

March 2007 Vocational training campus, Pakistan
The Pakistan Development Foundation offers easily accessible vocational education and training, and provides assistance in starting read more...

March 2007 Computer lessons, Philippines 2007
Zone One Tondo Organisation (ZOTO) is a popular movement which helps poor people of the Philippines aged 10 to 24, with education as well as read more...

March 2007 Educational Resource Centre, Komenda, Ghana
ToBe Worldwide zet Educational Resource Centres op in achtergebleven gebieden in Ghana. De centra bieden kinderen van 6 to 15 jaar read more...

March 2007 Holland Festival 2007: Era La Notte
During the 60th edition of the Holland Festival, soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci sings early Italian baroque music. This concert read more...

March 2007 Teaching programmes in children's homes, Doganovo and Roman, Bulgaria
De Stichting Kindertehuizen Bulgarije steunt vijf kindertehuizen in de omgeving van Sofia waar 400 kinderen read more...

March 2007 Vocational Training in Woodworking, Cape Coast, Ghana
De Stichting Bebo Bakery wil wees- en zwerfkinderen in Ghana, na een goede basisopleiding, een vak leren in kleine, zelfstandige ondernemingen read more...

March 2007 Projects to cure leprosy 2007
The Dutch Leprosy Foundation invests all over the world in projects that help diagnose and cure people who suffer from leprosy read more...

February 2007

€1.000.000,- for the Dutch Leprosy Foundation
The Dutch Leprosy Foundation has devoted itself for forty years to creating a world in which the permanent suffering, caused by leprosy, is no longer existent read more...

Primary school with teachers' accommodation in Idi, Atjeh
De Stichting Zicht Op Toekomst richt zich op scholenbouw in Indonesië, in gebieden waar de infrastructuur verwoest is. In Atjeh, waar de tsunami van 2002 read more...

Educational programme for an orphanage, Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka 2007
De Stichting Weeshuis Sri Lanka bouwt en exploiteert een weeshuis in Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka voor 300 weeskinderen. Velen daarvan read more...

The Atlas Ensemble
30 musicians from China, Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe are united in this ensemble and bring together instruments which originate from a common 'ancestor', but read more...

Education for children and key facilities, Tanguiéta, Northern Benin
The Liliane Foundation provides direct, small-scale and tailor-made help to handicapped children and young people in developing countries. In many cases, read more...

Bouw 'Classic Express' of the Princess Christina Concours
Het Prinses Christina Concours wil de jeugd kennis laten maken met klassieke en jazz muziek read more...

School for street children in Lombok, Indonesia
De stichting Peduli Anak bouwt drie opvanghuizen en een school voor straatkinderen op het eiland Lombok in Indonesië. 144 straatkinderen read more...

Main supporter of De Week van de Poëzie 2007 - 'Birth'
Many large and sparkling, or instead modest poetry activities and events related to poetry from all over the Netherlands come together in this 'Poetry Week'. At least 60 events read more...

Main patronage of the Ricciotti Ensemble 2007
consists of 40 idealistic students who give 100 concerts a year at venues such as care homes, prisons, schools and asylum centres, for people who read more...

Foundation for Refugee Students UAF 2007
The UAF supports higher educated refugees and asylum seekers in their studies and in finding a job by financial support, advice and coaching. read more...

Poetry anthology 'The First Miracle'
The thematic poetry anthology 'Het Eerste Wonder' of Dutch poems about birth is published read more...

Educational tools for 42 primary schools, Rwanda
To improve the quality of and participation (of especially girls) in education, and to improve quality by teacher refresher courses read more...

Children's Concert of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
The RCO gives a children's concert that is linked to an educational project which enables primary school children in Amsterdam to enjoy read more...

Teaching material for primary school in Gambia
The Kebba Jarju Memorial Nursery is a primary school in a village in the Kombo North district of Gambia. It has over 120 pupils read more...

Extension opening hours Museum Belvédère 2007-2009
Museum Belvédère is het eerste museum voor moderne en hedendaagse kunst in Friesland read more...

25th anniversary of the Amsterdam Chamber Music Society , 2007
Het Reizend Muziekgezelschap is een kamermuziekgezelschap met een wisselende bezetting van internationale topmuzikanten read more...