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

Turing Foundation donates more than 1 million euro to new leprosy research
Mycobacterium Leprae
"The bacteria is only barely surviving among the very poorest in developing countries. For the first time, thanks to new medical insights, it is imaginable that we can rid the world of leprosy forever... more

Most recent projects: March 2013
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Museum Gouda
March 2013
Main supporter Henri Fantin-Latour exposition, Gouda Museum, 2013-2014
Museum Gouda will be hosting the first-ever solo exhibition of Fantin-Latour in the Netherlands, entitled... more

Constantin Brancusi - Le Baiser - 1908
March 2013
The Third Turing Art Grant, 2013
One of Turing Foundation's goals is to have more people enjoy the fine arts in Dutch museums. To that end, the Turing Foundation introduced the... more

Tentoonstelling Hundertwasser en Japan, Cobra Museum
March 2013
Hundertwasser and Japan exhibition, Cobra Museum, 2013
The Cobra Museum has been offered the unique opportunity to take over an exhibition displaying the early works of the Austrian... more

Exhibition Old Drawings, New Names, Rembrandt House Museum
March 2013
Exhibition Old Drawings, New Names, Rembrandt House Museum, 2013-2014
In 2014, the Rembrandt House Museum will be hosting an exhibition of 17th-century drawings by Rembrandt, his... more

School destroyed during the civil war, Sierra Leone
March 2013
Access to quality education in Kailahun District, Sierra Leone, 2013-2015
In Sierra Leone, the number of children receiving an education is extremely low, and especially girls are... more

Technical school in Kara, Togo 2013
March 2013
Technical school in Kara, Togo, 2013
SOS-Kinderdorpen helps orphans and abandoned children in developing countries find loving families to grow up with. Worldwide, SOS Kinderdorpen... more

Poetry anthology Elisabeth Eybers
March 2013
Poetry anthology Elisabeth Eybers, 2013
Over a four-year period, publisher Van Oorschot will be publishing twelve beautiful, hardcover anthologies. These anthologies include the... more

Sustainable agriculture in Burkina Faso
March 2013
Sustainable agriculture, Sissili Province, Burkina Faso, 2013
In the poor province of Sissili, Woord en Daad and CREDO are training farm families to make their companies and... more

Cancer cells
March 2013
Research into how mycobacteria lyse the phagosomal membrane 2013-2014
The Tumor Biology Department of the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NCI) conducts fundamental research into the... more

Two girls who have set up their own businesses after their ASSEJA vocational training. Turing Project Visit, Februari 2012
March 2013
Vocational training for 100 youths, Cameroon, 2013-2014
Stop Kindermisbruik (Stop Child Abuse) and its local partner ASSEJA offer vocational education to 100 underprivileged youths... more

Education Quality Improvement Programme, Kenia
March 2013
Education Quality Improvement Programme, Kenya, 2013
Build Africa focuses on education and income-generating programmes in Kenya and Uganda. In Central Kenya, Build Africa works... more

Skin infected with leprosy
March 2013
Rechearch into macro- and micro-epidemiology of leprosy 2013
The Leonard Wood Memorial Research Centre in Cebu, Philippines, is conducting research into the transmission patterns of... more

Refugees from the Central African Republic fetching water from the oldest well of Gbiti, Cameroon
March 2013
Improvement of education at 8 primary schools, East and Adamawa Region, Cameroon, 2013
Since 2007, the border of Cameroon's East Region has been host to over 100,000 refugees from... more


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