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 Welcome to the Turing Foundation
The Turing Foundation is a private charity based in the Netherlands.
The Turing Foundation spends its funds on behalf of four goals: The Turing Foundation was established in 2006 by Pieter Geelen, using the wealth he acquired as co-founder of TomTom NV, a company listed at the Dutch stock exchange.
Annual Report 2007 available


Most recent projects: Juli 2008


Juli 2008
Main Supporter Retrospective Exhibition Jan van Scorel
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...


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


Juli 2008
IDEAL: Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy 2008-2010
This consortium of thirty Leprosy research groups will develop immunological tests in the coming years read more...


Juli 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...


Juli 2008
The Amsterdam Cello Biënnale 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...


Juli 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...


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


Juli 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...


Juli 2008
The Coral Triangle Initiative 2008
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...


Juli 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...


Juli 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...


Juli 2008
Contemporary Art Exhibition Not Normal
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...


Juli 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...


Juli 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...


Juli 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...


Juli 2008
Sustainable Agricultural Programmes, Burkina Faso
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...


Juli 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...


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


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


Juli 2008
Sustainable Cocoa Production Eastern and Ashanti Region, Ghana, '08-'10
As in many other countries, the production of cocoa leads to serious deforestation and forest degradation in Ghana read more...


Juli 2008
Educational Programme for Orphanage, Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka
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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