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This page lists vovational training projects. The Turing Foundation also invests in school management and teacher training, building schools and other quality-of-education projects. For an overview of all our education projects, see our education web page.
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Vocational training for 100 youths, Cameroon, 2012-2014
Stop Kindermisbruik (Stop Child Abuse) and its local partner ASSEJA offer vocational education to 100 underprivileged youths every year. The training consists of 3 months of theory combined with a 6-month to 2-year apprenticeship-based training with existing businesses (duration dependent on the trade). Trainings are offered in 5 cities: Yaoundé, Maroua, Bertoua, Bamenda and Ambam. The most popular courses are silk-screen printing, painting, tailoring, hairdressing/aesthetics, restaurant/pastry making and computer graphics. From previous experience, it turns out that 80% of teenagers that finish their training (on average, there's a 5% dropout rate) start their own self-supporting businesses. The other 20% generally has a good chance of remaining with the small businesses they were trained at.
The Turing Foundation
already supported this activity back in 2011
and will increase its contribution to a total of €150,000 for the project until 2014 (50% of training costs). In 2011, the program exceeded all expectations with regards to the number of applications, so ASSEJA decided to assign more than one youth to each trainer. A total of 105 girls and 40 boys have enrolled in the program. It's currently being looked into whether the overcrowding affects the programs' quality, but it doesn't seem to. The boys are especially motivated and there are hardly any dropouts.
see also:
Other projects in focus country Cameroon
Two girls who have set up their own businesses after their ASSEJA vocational training. Turing Project Visit, Februari 2012
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Vocational training for underprivileged youths, Kenya, 2011-2012
The Ujima Foundation offers vocational trainings to underprivileged
youths that take care of their younger siblings, in Nakuru and Kisumu.
They are trained for jobs in the hospitality sector (hotels, restaurants, etc.).
For the long-term funding of Kisumu's vocational training programme, a tourist
lodge was built in Kindisi, on the shore of Lake Victoria.
According to the business plan, the programme should be able to be funded
entirely from the lodge's revenues within a few years.
In Nakuru, Ujima already proved such a plan is feasible.
The Turing Foundation contributed €15,000 to the project in 2011,
and provides a €15,000 loan guarantee for 2012.
see also:
Ujima Foundation: other projects
Other projects in focus country Kenya
Ujima Vocational Training, Kenya
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Vocational training for girls, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2012-2013
The Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland (SKN) supports local NGO ATTous in offering technical vocational education to deprived girls in Ouagadougou at the Centre Féminin d'Initiation et Apprentissage à la Mécanique. Every year, 130 girls in the ages of 13-21 are being trained in either car electronics, bodywork (dent removal, spraying), clothing design/sewing, or electrical engineering.
Starting in 2012, the Turing Foundation will be contributing €23,000 for tools and teaching material for the car electronics and bodywork trainings, and career guidance for graduated girls.
see also:
SKN: other projects
Other projects in focus country Burkina Faso
Car electronics and bodywork training for girls, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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Improvement of primary and vocational education, Equatorial Province, D.R. Congo, 2011-2014
CDI Bwamanda wants to contribute to recovering and setting up education in the north of the Equatorial Province, D.R. Congo. During a previous three-year phase of the project, the quality of education was improved at 22 schools (6 elementary schools, 11 secondary schools and 5 vocational institutes. They are now expanding the project to 27 schools and 5 literacy centres reaching a total 15,000 students. Training is offered to improve school management and supervision as well as the skills of the teaching staff. Teaching material is also provided, and school buildings are renovated if necessary.
Up to and including 2014, the Turing Foundation will contribute €105,000 to the project (€45,000 of which in 2011).
see also:
CDI Bwamanda: other projects
Other projects in focus country D.R. Congo
Other teacher training projects
A lesson in clockreading, Pio Institute, Bwamanda, D.R. Congo
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Construction and equipment of a trade school in Chepchoina, Kenya, 2009-2011
The Elimu Mount Elgon Foundation facilitates educational initiatives in the Mount Elgon Region in Kenya.
As part of a larger school complex the foundation supports the establishment of a vocational training school
(2 classrooms, 4 teachers' lodgings, 4 instruction rooms, facilities and equipment).
This school will offer technical training in agriculture and horticulture, woodwork, metalwork, electrical engineering
and domestic science to 180 students.
By contributing €40,000 the Turing Foundation will fund half of the building and
furnishing costs of the school.
Building started in November 2010.
see also:
Other projects in focus country Kenya
Other building projects
Progress at the VTC building site, August 2011
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ICT vocational training CPAEC, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2010-2012
The Zod Neere Foundation set up a vocational training centre for underprivileged youngsters in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The centre (CPAEC - Centre Professionnel d'Apprentissage et d'Echanges Culturels) will open its doors come October 2010 and will be offering several vocational training courses: bronze, batik, leatherworking, carpentry, bricklaying, cutter and ICT (administration and technical support). The ICT training will consist of a two to three-year training, including an internship placement and can admit up to 270 students a year.
The Turing Foundation reserved €19,000 in 2010 for the furnishing of the computer rooms for the ICT training.
Currently, Zod Neere is working on gathering sufficient funds to open the school in 2012.
see also:
Turing Foundation en PUM (Magazine Zomer 2011)
PUM - Netherlands Senior Experts: other projects
Other projects in focus country Burkina Faso
vocational training centre CPAEC under construction, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2010
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Construction and equipment of a new Vocational Training Centre, Bamako, Mali, 2009-2011
The Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland (SKN) is building a new vocational centre at the heart of the Malinese capital Bamako, together with the local organisation ENDA Mali. The centre will offer one- and multi-year vocational training programmes in the field of wood- and metalworking, car mechanics, shoemaking, fabric dyeing, et cetera.
The Turing Foundation contributed € 40,000 in 2009 to the construction and equipment of
this new vocational centre, which hopes to open its doors in September 2010.
see also:
SKN: other projects
Other projects in focus country Mali
Other building projects
Progress at the building site, Turing project visit, November 2010
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Construction of a school for elementary and secondary education, Djenné, Mali, 2010-2011
The Djenné Foundation focuses on education, the arts, and culture in the city of Djenné, Mali. In close cooperation with the local NGO community and the educational institutions, the foundation wants to set up an exemplary school that offers both elementary and secondary education for a total of 300 children. Education will be bilingual (Bambara and French) and classes will consist of no more than 50 students. Teachers will be trained yearly. The school's vocational training will consist of short courses (textile-, wood- and metalworking).
The Turing Foundation contributes € 20,000 for the realization of the school that is to open its doors in 2011.
see also:
Other projects in focus country Mali
Other building projects
Djenné, Mali
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Vocational education Sustainable Farming, Gbomboro, Burkina Faso, 2011
In Gbomboro in the northwest of Burkina Faso, Heifer and partner organisation Asudec will establish a community school for vocational education on sustainable farming, as part of a broader sustainable development programme. Every three years, the school will train 60 young people, and help former students set up their own farming businesses. The target group are youths aged 15 and up who have enjoyed no (or very little) education. After three years, the school is expected to be able to generate sufficient funds to cover their own costs.
In 2011, the Turing Foundation will contribute €40,000 (30% of the costs for the school's first three years).
see also:
Heifer: other projects
ASUDEC: other projects
Other projects in focus country Burkina Faso
Other building projects
Vocational education on sustainable farming, Gbomboro, Burkina Faso
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Farming and Livelihood Improvement Programme, Ghana 2011
All over the world, SOS Kinderdorpen offers structural support to orphans and abandoned children. Over the past couple of years, the foundation has increasingly focused on establishing and improving job training, especially in Central and East Africa. The Turing Foundation has cooperated with SOS Kinderdorpen in the field of education before, in Burundi.
The Farming and Livelihood Improvement Programme aims to improve the current social and food security of vulnerable children and adolescents in rural Ghana. Cooperating with GOAN and Avalon, 600 adolescents from the age of 13 are being trained in biological agricultural techniques, and young men and women from the age of 18 are being assisted in setting up their own farms. A great number of teachers are being trained for this purpose. They will be able to continue their activities in the future without any additional financial support.
The Turing Foundation supports the Farming and Livelihood Improvement Programme in Ghana until 2011 by covering one-third (€ 60,000) of the vocational training costs.
see also:
SOS Kinderdorpen: other projects
GOAN: other projects
Farming and Livelihood Improvement Programme, Ghana
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Upgrading five vocational training centres, Kenya, 2010-2012
VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) sends professional experts to developing countries to share their knowledge with local organisations, so these can do their work more effectively. In Kenya, VSO will be working on the quality and relevance of vocational training at five vocational training centres. Over a period of three years, teachers and school management will be trained, the new government curriculum will be implemented, and the centres will be working towards a better offer of internship placements.
From 2010-2012, the Turing Foundation contributes €120,000 to this cause,
€40.000 of which in 2011.
see also:
VSO: other projects
Other projects in focus country Kenya
Other teacher training projects
VSO vocational training, Kenya, 2010-2012
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Tools for twelve technical training centres, Western Kenya, 2011
Gered Gereedschap (Salvaged Tools) collects and repairs used tools,
and ships them to development projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America on request.
Every year, the foundation provides over 100,000 tools and 1,000 sewing machines to
third world countries. This way, thousands of people are offered a chance to learn
a trade and earn an income.
In 2011, the Turing Foundation will finance the full project costs (€37,000)
for the collection, recycling, packaging, and shipping of tools and sewing machines
for twelve training centres and organisations in Western Kenya.
see also:
Gered Gereedschap: other projects
Other projects in focus country Kenya
Tools for technical vocational education, Western Kenya, 2011
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Jobortunity Training Institute, Arusha, Tanzania, 2009-2011
At the Jobortunity Training Centre in Arusha, underprivileged youths can enrol in a
one-year training that prepares them for a career in tourism. The centre opened in September
2009 with a teacher training (Training of Youth Programme). In October 2010, 40 students were
the first to complete the training. The training centre is developing income-generating
activities to limit their future dependence on donors.
Following last year's contribution, the Turing Foundation will once again contribute €25,000 in 2011.
see also:
Other projects in focus country Tanzania
Jobortunity Training Institute, Arusha, Tanzania
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Vocational Education for the Loita Maasai, Narok South District, Kenya, 2010-2011
In Kenya, the Edukans Foundation and local organization ILIDP strive to make high-quality and relevant education more easily accessible for the Loita Maasai in the Narok South district. Every six months, forty youths are trained in professions like wood-, leather- and metalworking, tailoring, bricklaying, car mechanics, tour guiding and driving. Where possible, trainings are given within the community through apprenticeship.
In 2009, the Turing Foundation contributed €35,000 to the project, and will extend its support by contributing €18,000 in 2010.
see also:
ILIDP: other projects
Edukans: other projects
Other projects in focus country Kenya
Loita Maasai, Narok South District, Kenya, 2010-2011
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Construction of a vocational school for women, Bandiagara, Mali, 2010-2011
The Women and Labour Market Foundation (VAM) is a center of expertise for women's vocational schools. The foundation wants to keep the idea of women's vocational schools alive by offering short, part-time trainings, individual coaching, follow-up and day care. In Bandiagara, Mali, VAM works closely with the local NGO community and educational authorities to set up a vocational school for women aged fifteen and over. A total of 150 women will be trained every year, as well as coached in their quest for work, or with the start of their own business.
The Turing Foundation contributes € 30,000 for the school's construction, the first courses of which will start in March of 2011.
see also:
Other projects in focus country Mali
Other building projects
Women's vocational school, Bandiagara, Mali
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Modern Teaching Equipment for vocational training centre CPMA, Bamako, Mali, 2010-2011
The Centre Professionel Mécanique Auto (CPMA) for vocational training in car engineering, will be expanding with a four-year degree at Brevet de Technicien level (standard technician's certificate). To that end, PUM will provide training on modern car engineering for teachers and development of a new curriculum. Additionally, the school is in need of modern teaching equipment.
In 2010, the Turing Foundation will contribute €35,500 for the purchase of modern teaching equipment.
see also:
Turing Foundation en PUM (Magazine Zomer 2011)
PUM - Netherlands Senior Experts: other projects
Other projects in focus country Mali
CPMA Vocational training, Bamako, Mali, 2010-2011
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Competency-based Teaching as part of vocational training, Kumasi en Tamale, Ghana, 2010-2011
The ETC (Educational Training Consultants) Technical Training programme focuses on human resource development and capacity building in developing countries by improving technical training. In Ghana, the ETC will be training 238 teachers, from the teacher training institute for technical vocational training in Ghana, as well as from three vocational training centres in Kumasi and Tamale. Goal is to introduce modern teaching methods (competency-based teaching) in Ghana's vocational training institutes.
The Turing Foundation will contribute €35,000, covering about half of the project costs.
see also:
ETC Foundation: other projects
Competency-based Teaching as part of vocational training, Kumasi and Tamale, Ghana, 2010-2011
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Teacher Training solar enegry systems, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, 2010-2011
At the request of six technical schools in Bobo Diolasso, Burkina Faso, the ETC Technical Training Programme will be training 26 Electricity/Electrical Engineering teachers in solar energy systems. After the training, the teachers will be able to install, maintain and repair a solar energy system as well as pass on their knowledge to their students. Every year, the 6 schools have a total of between 650 and 700 students taking the Electricity/Electrical Engineering course.
In 2010, the Turing Foundation will contribute €15,400.
see also:
ETC Foundation: other projects
Other projects in focus country Burkina Faso
Other teacher training projects
Teacher Training solar energy at 6 technical schools, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
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Technical vocational training, Rongo district, Kenya, 2010-2011
Edukans, in association with the Kenyan NGO ANPPCAN, is doing a 3-year project aimed at an improved accessibility to relevant and decent education. Education in the Rongo district is poorly developed and there is hardly any vocational training being offered. Part of the project involves the realization of student-teacher schooling posts for 130 youths, so they can learn a trade.
In 2010 and 2011, the Turing Foundation will contribute a total of €68,000 to the project.
see also:
Edukans: other projects
Other projects in focus country Kenya
Technical vocational training, Rongo district, Kenya
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Improvement of primary and vocational education, Equatorial Province, D.R. Congo, 2010
CDI Bwamanda contributes to the recovery and building up of education in the Equatorial Province, D.R. Congo. During a three-year project, 22 schools will be working on educational improvement (6 primary schools, 11 secondary schools and 5 vocational training institutes). There will be trainings to improve school management and teacher skills. Teaching material will be distributed as well and where needed, school buildings will be renovated.
In 2010, the Turing Foundation will contribute €30,000.
see also:
CDI Bwamanda: other projects
Other projects in focus country D.R. Congo
Other teacher training projects
Improving quality of primary education and vocational training, Equatorial Province, D.R. Congo
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Tools for technical vocational education, Tanzania, 2010
The Foundation for Refurbished Tools (Gered Gereedschap) collects and refurbishes tools and dispatches these to development projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America on demand. Every year, the foundation provides Third-World countries with over 100,000 tools and around 1,000 sewing machines. Thousands of people are thus given a chance to learn a trade and earn a living.
In 2010, The Turing Foundation will finance the entire project costs (€37.000) covering the collecting, recycling, packaging and shipping of tools and sewing machines to eight different training centres and organisations in Tanzania.
see also:
Gered Gereedschap: other projects
Other projects in focus country Tanzania
Gereedschap voor Technisch Onderwijs, Tanzania
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Construction of an income generating lodge for vocational training, Kisumu, Kenia, 2010
The Ujima Foundation offers vocational education for underprivileged children of Nakuru and Kisumu who need to provide for younger brothers and sisters. The young students are trained to find jobs in the hospitality sector (hotels, restaurants, et cetera). In order to defray the costs of this vocational training programme of Kisumu in the long term, a tourist lodge is being constructed on the banks of Lake Victoria. The business plan shows that the profits from the lodge can already cover the costs of the programme within a few years. In Nakuru, the Ujima Foundation has already proven that this can be done.
In 2010, the Turing Foundation contributes € 30,000 to the construction of the lodge.
see also:
Ujima Foundation: other projects
Other projects in focus country Kenya
Other building projects
Income Generating Programma for Vocational Training, Kisumu, Kenia
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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 illnesses by offering them education, vocational training and HIV/Aids education.
The foundation provides vocational education to 325 underprivileged young boys and girls from slums and disadvantaged areas in Mai Mahiu, Kenya, which is situated in one of the poorest and most turbulent parts of Kenya, near the city of Nakuru. Children can enter one-year training programmes in the field of woodworking, leather-working, sewing, external care or computer skills. After their training, students are assisted in finding a job, or in starting their own business.
The Turing Foundation contributes € 70,000 to the project costs for 2009 and 2010.
Update 2010:
Unfortunately, the number of young children reached in 2008 and 2009
was so much lower than targeted that we have decided
to cancel support for this project in 2010.
see also:
Red een Kind: other projects
Other projects in focus country Kenya
Vocational Training: Carpentry, Mai Mahiu, Kenya
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Vocational Education for the Loita Maasai, Narok South District, Kenya, 2009
In Kenya, the Edukans Foundation works together with local organisation ILIDP to improve the accessibility of qualitatively adequate and relevant vocational education for the Loita Maasai in the Narok South District. 140 young boys and girls can attend existing 'village polytechnics' in subjects and skills that suit the lifestyle and culture of the Loita Maasai pastoralists: stock breeding, production of diary products and marketing cows. Apart from that, crop growing, building and carpentry will be offered.
The Turing Foundation contributes € 35,000 to this project.
see also:
ILIDP: other projects
Edukans: other projects
Other projects in focus country Kenya
Loita Maasai, Narok South District, Kenya
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Improvement of vocational training in Nyakabiga, Burundi, 2007-2008
SOS Children's Villages ensures that orphans and children left without parental care can grow up in a family, regardless of their religion, descent or skin colour. In the villages, the children live with their 'own' SOS-mother, together with brothers and sisters. Health care and social guidance, but also education and training play a vital role. During the last few years, the foundation has therefore worked intensively on the establishment and improvement of vocational schools, especially in Central and East Africa.
The Turing Foundation contributes € 100,000 to a project that aims to
improve the quality of education in 2008 at the Vocational Training Centre in Nyakabiga,
Burundi, and to make it more easily accessible to underprivileged young people.
see also:
SOS Kinderdorpen: other projects
Students at work in the Vocational Training Centre in Nyakabiga, Burundi
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Construction of a vocational training centre in Nairobi, Kenia, 2008-2011
The mission of ChildsLife International is to improve the lives of needy children in developing countries. On the outskirts of the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, the foundation is establishing a vocational training centre for 120 pupils
(offering masonry, carpentry, dressmaking, hair dressing and office administration programmes).
The Turing Foundation finances half (€ 40.000) of the construction costs of this training
centre, which will consist of four classrooms, four practical training rooms, an office and a shop.
see also:
Other projects in focus country Kenya
Other building projects
Vocational Training Centre, Februari 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
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Tools for technical vocational education, Ghana, 2008-2009
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. Every year, the foundation supplies over 100,000 tools and 1,000 sewing machines to the Third World. In this way, thousands of people are given the opportunity to learn a trade and to earn an income.
The Turing Foundation finances the full project costs (€ 29,000) for collecting, recycling, packaging and sending tools and sewing machines to eight organisations and training centres in Ghana. The project entails one container shipment that is planned for July 2009.
see also:
Gered Gereedschap: other projects
An Earlier Shipment of Rescued and Refurbished Tools for the Ghana Young Artisan Movement
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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 of education, vocational training and HIV/Aids education.
In Kenya, the foundation offers vocational training programmes to 325 underprivileged children from slums and disadvantaged areas in Mai Mahiu, located in one of the poorest and most restless parts of Kenya, near the town of Nakuru. The programmes offered are one-year courses in the field of carpentry, leather-working, clothes making, external care and computer skills. After their training, pupils are assisted in finding a job or in launching a business.
The Turing Foundation contributes € 40,000 to the project costs for 2008.
see also:
Red een Kind: other projects
Other projects in focus country Kenya
Vocational carpentry training - Red een Kind Foundation, Kenya
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Vocational Programme Organic Food Production, Sanka, Ghana, 2008-2009
The Bebo Bakery Foundation helps youth in Ghana to learn a profession, after a solid primary education, in small, independent, profitable businesses of different kinds. The foundation is now setting up a training centre in Sanka for organic food production in market gardening and fruit farming. A poultry farm is also set up, which will enable the training centre to be self-supportive. To begin with, 20 young women from the local relief centre are trained.
The Turing Foundation donates € 25,000, which amounts to 50% of the total project cost up until 2012.
see also:
Bebo Bakery: other projects
Students under Training
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Young Africa Skills Center, Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe, 2008
Young Africa offers support in the education and development of underprivileged young people between 15 and 25 years of age. The foundation preferably initiates reproducible model projects. The Young Africa Skills Center offers vocational training in a region which has very little qualitatively good educational possibilities.
By donating € 50,000, the Turing Foundation finances the interior of a new classroom block and half of the operating costs of the Young Africa Skills Center in Chitungwiza for 2008.
Young Africa Skills Center, Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
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Kuloro Skills Training Centre, Gambia, 2007-2008
In Kuloro, Gambia Net4Kids supports a training centre in cooperation with the local organisation Kaira Nyining Program Area. The Kuloro Skills Training Centre has room for 100 pupils, who can be trained in skills such as batik, tie & dye, sewing, soap making, preparing food and baking bread.
By contributing € 16,000, the Turing Foundation pays for the centre's equipment, furniture, apparatus, teaching materials and solar panels and for the salaries of all staff during the first year (four teachers, a caretaker and a night-watchman). After the starting year, the centre will be able to support itself. The Turing Foundation also finances the construction and the equipment of the bakery.
see also:
Net4Kids: other projects
Batik, Tie & Dye in the Kuloro Skills Centre
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Practical Textile Training Room and Art Room for Architecture/Engineering, Moengo, Surinam, 2007-2009
The STOOM Foundation
supports the improvement of schools in the Surinamese district of Marowijne.
One of their projects is the improvement of the Barronschool, which is the
sole vocational school in Moengo. At this moment, the institution lacks the
educational tools and the classrooms to offer its 450 pupils proper education.
By contributing € 20,000, the Turing Foundation funds half of
the building costs of an
art room
for the Architecture/Engineering department,
and the full costs of the practical training room for the Textile programme.
Art room for vocational training Architecture/Engineering, Moengo, Surinam, Juli 2008
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Construction and equipment of vocational training in woodworking, Cape Coast, Ghana, 2007
The Bebo Bakery Foundation aims to teach orphans and vagrant children in Ghana a profession, after a solid basic education, in small, independent, profitable businesses of different kinds. The foundation holds out the prospect of being own boss. It encourages sound and modern primary education and vocational training. Apart from that it offers opportunities (for example in the form of micro-credits) to talented and enthusiastic starting entrepreneurs.
The Turing Foundation finances 50% of the construction and equipment of a workplace for the vocational programme in woodworking in Cape Coast (€ 25,000 in total).
see also:
Forse giften voor werk Bebo Bakery in Ghana
Bebo Bakery: other projects
Other building projects
Vocational training in woodworking, Cape Coast, Ghana
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Vocational training for 100 youths, Cameroon, 2012-2014
