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Most recent projects: May 2008

May 2008	Turing Car for the Boijmans van Beuningen and the Chabot Museum 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 meer...	May 2008	Construction and Interior Primary School, Kisantu, Bas-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 meer...
May 2008	Field Projects Leprosy Control in Cambodia The Leprosy Foundation works together with the CIOMAL organisation on Leprosy control in Cambodia. The quality of diagnostics is a meer...	May 2008	*Rossini's Opera Il Turco In Italia, 2008* 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 meer...
May 2008	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 meer...	May 2008	Wouter van Bemmel's "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 meer...
May 2008	Music Theatre Show “Me and the Queen”, Max Tak Orchestra Children who have never before seen an orchestra perform live, and have no knowledge of classical music, can in this show meer...`	May 2008	Preservation of Natural Resources, Timbuktu, Mali Because of years of draught and a fast population growth, the natural vegetation of the Timbuktu region is under pressure. Because of this meer...
May 2008	Field Projects Leprosy Control in Laos In Laos leprosy occurs mostly among minorities that are hard to reach. Mutilations are often severe and irreparable if the meer...	May 2008	Noorderkerk Concerts: Market Place for Music The Noorderkerk Concerts Foundation each year performs a series of 30 to 35 short, easily accessible concerts of high quality in an informal atmosphere. meer...
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. meer...	May 2008	Informal Skills Training Program, Nairobi, Kenya 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 meer...
May 2008	Foundation for Refugee Students UAF 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 meer...	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 meer...
May 2008	Main supporter of the Ricciotti Ensemble 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 of Vila Cruzeiro in Rio de Janeiro The IBISS Foundation supports the most marginalized groups of Brazil. In the slums, children are hardly stimulated to go to school meer...		Project Overview on World Map

February 2008

Februari 2008	*Construction Macha Innovative Community School, Macha, Zambia* PrivaServe increases the independence and autonomy of the rural population in developing countries. read more...	Februari 2008	Adoption poetry section and special poetry issues of De Gids The Dutch cultural and literary magazine De Gids has already been published for 170 years. Its aim is to promote literature and to stimulate the Dutch cultural and social debate. It holds a read more...
Februari 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...	Februari 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...
Februari 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...	Februari 2008	Four-year cycle of poetry anthologies 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...
Februari 2008	Classical Music Evenings in the Vondelpark 2008-2010 On Thursday Summer nights, renowned music ensembles render free classical music in the Amsterdam Vondelpark Openluchttheater. In 2008 read more...	Februari 2008	ICT curriculum for secondary schools in Tanzania, Kenya, Senegal and Uganda Viafrica helps secondary schools to offer their students ICT education, and to ensure a well-educated middle class. Schools must take read more...
Februari 2008	Construction and interior of the secondary school for Kainam, Tanzania The Kamitei Foundation invests in primary and secondary education for rural children in Tanzania. Kamitei supplies facilities and goods, but also training read more...	Februari 2008	The 'Zwoele Zomeravonden' of the Kröller-Müller Museum 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...
March 2007	Teaching programmes in children's homes, Doganovo and Roman, Bulgaria The Foundation Kindertehuizen Bulgarije supports five children's homes near Sofia, where 400 children read more...		Overview of other projects

November 2007

November 2007	€ 1.000.000,- for sustainable 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 education in Nyakabiga, Burundi 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 exhibition 'Terug Naar Zeeland',* Zeeuws Museum 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 2008-2009 The Liliane Foundation provides direct, small-scale and tailor-made help to handicapped children in Read more...
November 2007	Renovating & Building 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 adapted/translated by Jan Rot 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 Porgy & Bess* by Gershwin 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, January 2008 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	Skills Training Centre, Kuloro, 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...		Overview of other projects

September 2007

September 2007	Management ecosystem Murciellagos Bay in the 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	The 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	Education for 250 street children in Calcutta, India 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	Gedichtendag (Poem Day), 31 January 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	Classrooms for vocational education, Moengo, Suriname 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 This Save the Children project will, among other things, provide ten schools with educational materials, trainings for teachers, Read more...		Overview of other projects

July 2007	3 million euros for the Coral Triangle The World Wildlife Federation is setting up one of its largest and most ambitious projects ever, which aims to project the coral reefs and read more...	July 2007	LUMC research “Immunopathology of leprosy (...)” De Lepra bacterie heeft een hoge affiniteit voor Schwann cellen – cellen die een beschermende laag vormen om perifere zenuwen. read more...
July 2007	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...	July 2007	Sustainable management of the wetlands around Lake Doro in 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	Boijmans Museum - Dutch Primitives: Painters from the Late Middle Ages 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 National Parks 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	ICT curriculum for secondary schools in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda 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, Togo In Togo, IUCN Nederland works to recover part of the rainforest. This rainforest still houses a very important biodiversity read more...
July 2007	Modern masterpieces from Moscow 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...		Overview of other projects

mei 2007	Education in the slum of Vila Cruzeiro in Rio de Janeiro The IBISS Foundation supports the most marginalized groups of Brazil. In the slums, children are hardly read more...	mei 2007	Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra - Community Concerts 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...
mei 2007	Opera "Khadish/Erwartung" A group of young and idealistic musicians produces a 'true contemporary opera', an artistic whole, composed of read more...	mei 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...

Frans Hals Museum - 'The De Bray Family', Feb-Jun 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...

Education and food programme for 550 children of the Kianjau Primary School, Kenya
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...

Education for AIDS orphans and street children in Katutura, Namibia
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...

38th edition of Poetry International Festival (16 to 22 June 2007)
The theme for 2007 of this leading international poetry festival is the relation between poetry, insanity and melancholy. Several international read more...

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...

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

Computer lessons, Philippines
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...

Educational Resource Center, 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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

t/m 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...		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...
	Primary school with teachers' accommodation in Idi, Aceh 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...		Main supporter of the Ricciotti Ensemble 2007-2009 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...
	Children's Concerts 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...		€ 250.000,- for the Liliane Foundation 2007 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...
	Educational programme for an orphanage, Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka De Stichting Weeshuis Sri Lanka bouwt en exploiteert een weeshuis in Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka voor 300 weeskinderen. Velen daarvan 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...
	25-jarig jubileum Het Reizend Muziekgezelschap Het Reizend Muziekgezelschap is een kamermuziekgezelschap met een wisselende bezetting van internationale topmuzikanten meer...		Foundation for Refugee Students UAF 2007-2009 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...
	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...		"Classic Express" van het Prinses Christina Concours Het Prinses Christina Concours wil de jeugd kennis laten maken met klassieke en jazz muziek meer...
	Uitbreiding openingstijden Museum Belvédère Museum Belvédère is het eerste museum voor moderne en hedendaagse kunst in Friesland meer...		United World Colleges Two talented Antillean students wish to attend the Atlantic College in Wales 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...		Overview of other projects