The Turing Foundation - Education

Below is a list of older Turing Foundation education projects.
An overview of recent projects can be found on our education page.

Previous Education Projects:

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...	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...	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 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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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...
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...	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	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	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	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...
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...	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	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	*Construction Macha Innovative Community School, Macha, Zambia* PrivaServe increases the independence and autonomy of the rural population in developing countries. 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	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...	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	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	Educational projects Liliane Foundation 2008 The Liliane Foundation provides direct, small-scale and tailor-made help to handicapped children in 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	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...
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	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	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	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	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	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...	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...	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	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	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	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	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...
January 2007	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...	2006	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...
2006	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...	2006	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...
2006	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...	2006	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...
2006	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...

	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 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. Farming and Livelihood Improvement Programme, Ghana
	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 managed on site and offers training programs in web design and job hunting skills to hundreds of youngsters from the Nairobi slums. Similar initiatives have followed in the wake of NairoBits' success, such as ZanziBits in Tanzania. In 2009 and 2010 the Turing Foundation will donate €56,000 to the NairoBits Vocational Training Program. Butterfly Works, Nairobi, Kenya
	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 and responsibilities, personal development, spending and saving, and planning and budgeting. The Foundation developed the "Aflatoun Curriculum," which aims to teach these skills through eight interactive workbooks that are suitable for children (offering song and dance as well as projects). The Turing Foundation will finance the full project costs (€67,000) involved in training teachers and providing teaching materials at 160 schools in Ghana from 2009-2011. The project is implemented by the ngo WADEP (Women and Development Project). WADEP Trainees,2006
	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. Vocational carpentry training - Red een Kind Foundation, Kenya
	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 Pakistan. The School Support Programme helps children in the area to return to school, by paying for tuition fees, school uniforms and teaching materials as long as their parents are still dealing with the financial consequences of the earthquake. The project offers support to 2,000 pupils between 6 and 15 years of age in ten different schools. Moreover, the project offers training programmes for teachers, environmental education and helps to establish parents' councils. The Turing Foundation finances approximately two thirds (€ 40,000) of the running costs in 2008 and 2009. Stichting Haashar, Pakistan
	Improvement of education for 1,500 children in Balochistan, Pakistan 2008-2009 Save the Children Nederland is active in Pakistan, where it strives to improve the quality of education, and to make education more easily accessible to girls. The objectives of the project are to provide ten schools with basic tools, to train teachers, to set up parents' councils and to build additional classrooms. Moreover, two primary schools will be upgraded to model schools for secondary education. By donating € 150,000, the Turing Foundation subsidises the full costs of the project until the end of 2009. Pupils in Balochistan, Pakistan
	Education for 250 street children in Calcutta, India, 2007-2009 The Partnership Foundation is devoted to providing accommodation for street children in India in existing school buildings. The Loreto Sealdah Day School in Calcutta serves as a model for this strategy. It is a high-quality private school for 1,500 girls. A so-called 'Rainbow Home' is being created in this school. The home can accommodate 250 street children and provides them with food, education, medical care and loving support. During the coming three years, the Turing Foundation covers the full educational costs of the project, amounting to € 162,500. Rainbow Home, Calcutta
	Computer lessons, Philippines 2008 Zone One Tondo Organisation (ZOTO) is a popular movement, established in 1970, which offers help to the poor people of the Philippines between 10 and 24 years of age, in various fields: from education to technical support or financial support for the costs of living. The Turing Foundation paid for the computer equipment, and finances the 2008 and 2009 computer courses for 300 young people organized by ZOTO (€ 36,000 in total). students of the computer courses 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 (A Basic Child Development) pays for the tuition fees of underprivileged children who are talented and who have a desire to become teachers. After having finished the teacher training with the support of ABCD, students promise to teach in their home province for a period of at least three years. The Turing Foundation contributes € 27,500 to the training of teachers in the coming years. A Basic Child Development, Kameroen
	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 recommended by a growing national network of teachers and are selected on the basis of their willingness to contribute to the development of their own country in their later lives. During the coming three years, the Turing Foundation will invest € 10,000 on a yearly basis in the growth of the number of ‘SmartKids’. SmartKids in Training in Ghana
	Construction Primary School and Teacher Training College Chittachong, Bangladesh The GlobalCare4All Foundation supports spinal cord lesion patients in a rehabilitation centre in Chittachong, Bangladesh. Moreover, ex-patients are trained to become teachers. They thereby meet an urgent need and are able to build a life. The pilot project has been accomplished successfully. The foundation now plans to construct and equip a retraining centre and primary school, offering retraining programmes and education free of charge to 130 children. The Turing Foundation finances 66% of the project cost for 2008 (€ 40,000) and 33% (€ 20,000) of the cost for 2009. Lesson by Ex-Spinal Cord Lesion Patient in Bangladesh
	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. The success of the concept on the long run fully depends on financial contributions by parents and their assistance in the construction process. In 2008 the foundation constructs a new primary school in Dangbo for 100 children. The Turing Foundation donates € 11,500 towards the construction of this school. see also: Nieuwsbrief over opening school Opening school Dangbo Honmé (Benin TV) Construction of the primary school in Dangbo, Benin
	Vocational Programme Organic Food Production, Sanka, Ghana 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. Students under Training
	Educational/Food Programme for 1180 children of Several Primary Schools in Thika, Kenya One of the projects of the Macheo Children’s Centre is to develop a children’s home in Thika. Apart from that, it supports the nearby Kianjau Primary School. Everyone in the slum of Kiandutu can attend this school, as long as they wear the prescribed school uniform. However, not every one can afford this uniform, or even afford to come to school every day. A school day often means a day without a meal. This project therefore offers uniforms to all the children and enables the school to cook a simple, free meal for all its pupils every day. The Turing Foundation already supported this education/food programme of the Kianjau Primary School in 2007. In 2008, the programme will be extended to 1180 pupils of the Kianjau and Athena Primary Schools in Thika. The Turing Foundation contributes € 40,000 to the project for these two schools in 2008. Furthermore, the Turing Foundation contributes € 12,000 to the building of vegetable greenhouses, allowing the school to become independent of funding in the future. Kianjau Primary School
	Education for Aids Orphans and Street Children in Katutura, Namibia 2008 Stichting Pappa operates through the Child Development Foundation and ensures that a group of 80 AIDS orphans and street children in Katutura, Windhoek (the largest township of Namibia) are educated at a school in their vicinity or at the school that was established by the foundation itself in 2007. The Turing Foundation has supported this project since 2007 and pays half of the educational cost in 2008 and 2009 (€ 10,000 a year). Shalom Centre, Katature, Windhoek, Namibia
	Educational Programme for Orphanage, Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka 2008 The Stichting Weeshuis Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka Orphanage Foundation) constructs and develops an orphanage in Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka for 300 orphans. Many of them became orphans as a direct consequence of the tsunami in 2004. The foundation also offers an educational programme for these children and 350 others who live in the vicinity of the orphanage. The programme aims to offer the children an education that suits the market and the country’s needs. At the end of 2008, the orphanage can house 200 children. In 2007, the Turing Foundation took on the cost of these educational activities, and will continue to do so in 2008 and 2009 (€ 50,000 a year). Stichting Weeshuis Sri Lanka
	School Books for Developing Countries The Read to Grow Foundation collects English language recreational and school books and sends them to village schools in developing countries where books and information are scarce. Read to Grow operates more and more successfully in the Netherlands and the UK. The Turing Foundation contributes € 32,000 in 2007 and 2008 to propagate the Read to Grow concept in other European countries. see also: Turing Foundation sponsort Read to Grow voor 32.000 euro Books for Tokokoe, Ghana
	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 for 279 underprivileged children in Kisantu. In the evenings these facilities will also be used for adult education. In 2008 the Turing Foundation contributes € 28,250 to the construction and interior of this school. The first three new classrooms under construction
	School on Wheels, Cameroon, 2008 The School on Wheels project of One Men and the Cameroon organisation United Action for Children devote themselves to non-formal education for children of 6 to 13 years old, aimed at the development of competences and vocational education. School on Wheels takes children to school, and teachers to children. Apart from reading and writing, School on Wheels wants to teach children practical skills and competences that they need to survive in their society, such as additional vocational education with which they can find local jobs as an electrician, ICT worker, woodworker or painter. In the coming three years (2008 through 2010), the Turing Foundation will act as a co-financer in extending this project to 6,000 children in Mamfe, Kousseri and Kumba (€ 150,000). Vocational training for children in Cameroon
	Informal Skills Training Program, Nairobi, Kenya, 2008 The Edukans Foundation in Kenya works together with the local organisation Undugu Society Kenya (USK) on vocational and practically-oriented education for youth in and around Nairobi. The students (street kids of 15 to 20 years old) receive practical training in a profession that they choose themselves and that they will later be able to practise independently. After that they apprentice themselves to small entrepreneurs, who in turn are also trained in supervising this type of youth. In 2008 USK wants to have 1,000 students attend a vocational training through this system of learning and working. The Turing Foundation will contribute € 150,000 to this program in the coming three years (2008 through 2010). Informal Skills Training Programma, Kenia
	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 them from relapsing into illiteracy as a consequence of a lack of suitable secondary education. The experimental school and knowledge centre is being built in Ouahigouya, the capital of the province of Yatenga. The Turing Foundation has committed € 150,000 for half of the construction and equipment costs of this educational institute, not only for the primary and secondary education buildings, but also for the practical training rooms, the multi media centre, the computer rooms and the canteen. The ambition is to finish construction in 2009. see also: Beroepsonderwijs in Burkina Faso weer een stap dichterbij Turing Foundation draagt 150.000 Euro bij aan bouw onderwijscomplex Nieuwsbrief uit Yatenga Grote sponsor voor project van stichting WOL The new Zoodo school buildings in Yatenga
	Education in the Slum Area of Vila Cruzeiro in Rio de Janeiro 2008 The IBISS Foundation stands up for the most marginalised groups in Brazil. In the slums children are hardly stimulated to go to school, or do not get the chance to do so. With the Preparar Vila Cruzeiro project in the infamous slum area of Rio de Janeiro IBISS tries to change this. On the renovated third floor of the IBISS building hundreds of children are received and educated or prepared to enter into a normal school. The Turing Foundation adopted this project in 2007 and in 2008 again finances the full cost of € 50,000.
	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. For students who rightly claim a refugee status as mentioned in article 1 of the Geneva convention on Refugees the acceptance procedure of the UAF allows them to start their training without having to wait for their residence permit. Approximately 300 UAF-students graduate yearly. In 2007, 2008 and 2009, the Turing Foundation donates € 50,000 per year to the UAF. UAF dimplomas 2008
	Support for URDT Girls School, Kibaale, Uganda The Uganda Rural Development & Training programme (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 programmes for 240 talented girls from poor families. The Turing Foundation allocates a sum of € 50,000 to this school in 2008. Pupils at the URDT Girls School (Uganda) learning agricultural techniques
	Young Africa Skills Center, Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe 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
	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 and incentives for teachers, help in budgeting and planning, et cetera. The Turing Foundation contributes € 90,000 to the construction and interior of the first secondary school in Kainam, Tanzania and the training of the teachers (approx. 30% of the project budget up until 2010). support for Kamitei
	*Construction Macha Innovative Community School, Macha, Zambia* The PrivaServe Foundation increases the independence and autonomy of the rural population in developing countries. The Turing Foundation contributes € 50,000 in 2008 to the construction and interior of the MICS (Macha Innovative Community School) and the adjacent teachers' accommodation. Macha Innovative Community School, Macha, Zambia, july 2009
	Computer rooms for secondary schools in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda 2008 Viafrica helps secondary schools in especially Tanzania and Kenya to offer their students ICT education, and to ensure a well-educated middle class. In order to be eligible for the support, the schools must themselves take the initiative, for example by creating a suitable classroom for computer lessons and basic ICT training for teachers. Subsequently, Viafrica supplies and installs computers and related hardware free of charge and provides maintenance and refresher courses for teachers at cost price. At present, 32 schools in Tanzania, 15 in Kenya and 8 in Uganda are participating in the programme. The Turing Foundation donates € 147,500 to the Viafrica projects until 2010. CLASSWorks program, Tanzania, Viafrica
	Teaching programmes in children's homes, Doganovo and Roman, Bulgaria, 2007-2009 The Stichting Kindertehuizen Bulgarije (Foundation for Children's Homes in Bulgaria) supports five children's homes in the vicinity of Sofia, housing 400 (mostly Roma) children in total. The foundation assists the children's homes in renovation projects and helps them to provide food, clothing, linen, medical care and education. In the years 2007 to 2009, the Turing Foundation donates a total of € 40,000 to educational programmes (for example in English, computer science, and sewing) for children and young people in the children's homes of Doganovo and Roman. Computer Science, Doganovo, Bulgaria
	Construction and renovation of the Milalani Primary School, Msambweni, Kenya The Twiga Foundation focuses on education in the Msambweni area of Kenya. They contribute to quality improvement in education. Furthermore, the foundation subsidises tuitions of children who have the ability to go to university. The Turing Foundation financed 50% of the costs of building and renovating 16 classrooms of the Milalani School in Msambweni, Kenya (€ 32,000) and school furniture for 500 pupils. Renovating the Milalani Primary School, Msambweni
	Improvement of vocational training in Nyakabiga, Burundi 2007 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: Verbetering beroepsonderwijs in Nyakabiga, Burundi Students at work in the Vocational Training Centre in Nyakabiga, Burundi
	Educational projects Liliane Foundation 2008 The Liliane Foundation provides direct, small-scale and tailor-made help to handicapped children and young people in developing countries. In many cases, the Liliane Foundation helps those children to go to school. What especially appeals to the Turing Foundation is that the Liliane Foundation in this way offers opportunities to children who cannot be helped by any other educational relief organisation, because their needs are too small-scaled. Often, these needs concern one single child in a location where education is available despite poverty, but of which the child cannot make use because of its handicap. The Turing Foundation donates € 300,000 in total to the Liliane Foundation for help to children in the field of education in 2008 and 2009. With this amount, the Liliane Foundation will be able to help more than 3,000 children. see also: Kinderen kunnen naar school dankzij Turing Foundation Thanks to a prosthesis, these children can now go to school
	Kuloro Skills Training Centre, Gambia 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. Batik, Tie & Dye in the Kuloro Skills Centre
	Support for the schools in North-West Thailand The Samsara Foundation organises concrete and small-scaled projects for the improvement of education in the district of Mae Sariang in North-West Thailand. In that area, 25,000 underprivileged children receive education in 178 different schools. The children live in poor mountain villages of the Karen and Hmong hill tribes. Some of them stay in the dormitories of their school for the larger part of the year, because their home village is more than a day's journey away from the school. The Turing Foundation donates € 22,000 to a project of the Samsara Foundation for the purchase of school books for the 15 poorest school in the districts of Mae Sariang, Mae Lanoi and Sop Moei, and for the construction of dormitories, canteens including kitchens and toilets for the two most isolated schools of Thailand (the Cho Si Deu Nua School and the Huay Muang School). New school books arriving in Mae Sariang
	Education for 250 street children in Calcutta, India, 2007-2009 The Partnership Foundation is devoted to providing accommodation for street children in India in existing school buildings. The Loreto Sealdah Day School in Calcutta serves as a model for this strategy. It is a high-quality private school for 1,500 girls. A so-called 'Rainbow Home' is being created in this school. The home can accommodate 250 street children and provides them with food, education, medical care and loving support. During the coming three years, the Turing Foundation covers the full educational costs of the project, amounting to € 162,500. Rainbow Home, Calcutta
	Building of a school in Kenenkou, Mali The Dutch Mali Foundation and its permanent Malinese partner Solisa together support the population living in the hills around the city of Bamako in Mali. One of their projects in the building of a secondary school in the village of Kenenkou, which will accommodate 200 to 300 pupils. The only educational institute within a few hours' traveling distance is a dilapidated primary school, where 350 children now receive primary education in no more than three classrooms. With a contribution of € 35,000, the Turing Foundation sponsors the complete building and the equipment of the new school. The new school in Mali, donated by the Turing Foundation
	Practical Textile Training Room and Art Room for Architecture/Engineering, Moengo, Surinam 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
	Improvement of education for 1,500 children in Balochistan, Pakistan 2007 Save the Children Nederland is active in Pakistan, where it strives to improve the quality of education, and to make education more easily accessible to girls. The objectives of the project are to provide ten schools with basic tools, to train teachers, to set up parents' councils and to build additional classrooms. Moreover, two primary schools will be upgraded to model schools for secondary education. By donating € 150,000, the Turing Foundation subsidises the full costs of the project until the end of 2009. Save The Children Worldwide
	Enlargement of a school in Lomé, Togo The Een School in Togo Foundation built a private 'model school' for 300 children in Lomé, Togo. Since September 2004, the school offers education for children between 6 and 16 years of age. The foundation's aim is to achieve high quality education, not only by providing additional lessons for pupils, but also by offering continuous refresher courses for teachers. By contributing € 22,000, the Turing Foundation funds half of the costs of enlarging the school with new classrooms and a library, meaning that it can in the future accommodate 500 pupils. The school in Togo
	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 them from relapsing into illiteracy as a consequence of a lack of suitable secondary education. The experimental school and knowledge centre is being built in Ouahigouya, the capital of the province of Yatenga. The Turing Foundation has committed € 150,000 for half of the construction and equipment costs of this educational institute, not only for the primary and secondary education buildings, but also for the practical training rooms, the multi media centre, the computer rooms and the canteen. The ambition is to finish construction in 2009. see also: Beroepsonderwijs in Burkina Faso weer een stap dichterbij Turing Foundation draagt 150.000 Euro bij aan bouw onderwijscomplex Nieuwsbrief uit Yatenga Grote sponsor voor project van stichting WOL The new primary school building in Yatenga
	Computer rooms for secondary schools in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda 2007 The CLASSWorks programme by Viafrica helps secondary schools, especially in Tanzania, to provide an ICT curriculum. In order to be eligible for the support, secondary schools must themselves take the initiative, for example by creating a suitable classroom for computer lessons and organising basic ICT training for teachers. Subsequently, Viafrica supplies and installs computers and related hardware free of charge, and provides maintenance and refresher courses for teachers at cost price. At present, 25 schools in Tanzania, 8 in Kenya and 3 in Uganda are participating in the project. In 2007 the Turing Foundation donates € 27,500 to the Viafrica projects. CLASSWorks program, Tanzania, Viafrica
	School books for developing countries The Read to Grow Foundation collects English-language recreational books and textbooks and sends them to village schools in developing countries where books and information are scarce. Read to Grow operates more and more successfully in the Netherlands and the UK. The Turing Foundation contributes € 32,000 for the promotion of the Read to Grow-concept in other European countries during the coming years. see also: Turing Foundation sponsort Read to Grow 32.000 euro Read to Grow
	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, or simply do not have the opportunity to do so. With their 'Preparar' programme, IBISS tries to change this situation. The Turing Foundation adopts the Preparar programme in Vila Cruzeiro for € 150,000. Vila Cruzeiro is a notorious slum in Rio de Janeiro. The main objective of the project is to enable participation in public education for all children between 4 and 14 years of age.
	Education and food programme for 550 children of the Kianjau Primary School, Kenya, 2007-2009 One of the projects of the Macheo Children's Centre in Thika, Kenya is to run a children's home. Apart from that it supports the nearby Kianjau Primary School. Everyone in the slum of Kiandutu can attend this school, as long as they wear a school uniform. However, the poorest children do not have enough money to pay for the uniform. Moreover, they cannot afford to go to school every day, since they will have to choose between the school and a meal. Therefore, this project provides uniforms to all and enables the school to offer a simple, free meal to all its pupils every day. The Turing Foundation finances this education and food programme for the 550 children of the Kianjau Primary School in the year 2007, and has also committed to fund 50% of programme costs for 2008 and 33% of the costs for 2009 (€ 62,000 in total). see also: Nieuwe klaslokalen voor Kianjau primary school Free meals at the Kianjau Primary School
	Education for AIDS orphans and street children in Katutura, Namibia 2007 Stichting Pappa works through the Child Development Foundation and ensures that a group of 100 AIDS orphans and street children in Katutura, Windhoek (the largest township of Namibia) can go to school. Tuition, uniforms and school tools are provided. The foundation also builds a centre for after school activities for these and other children. The Turing Foundation pays the costs for the education of 55 children in 2007 and has committed to pay half of the costs in 2008 and 2009 (€ 39,000 in total). Shalom Centre, Katature, Windhoek, Namibia
	Vocational Training in Woodworking, Cape Coast, Ghana 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 Vocational training in woodworking, Cape Coast, Ghana
	Educational Resource Centre, Komenda, Ghana ToBe Worldwide establishes Educational Resource Centres in underdeveloped parts of Ghana. The centres provide additional educational programmes in skills that are not part of the standard curriculum. Main aim is to produce an increase in school participation of children of 6 to 15 years of age, and to offer young people a broader field of vision of their own surroundings. The Turing Foundation contributes € 50,000 to the construction of an Educational Resource Centre in the countryside of Komenda, Ghana, which provides additional educational programmes for 6 to 15 year-olds. see also: Turing Foundation supports To Be Worldwide ToBe Educational Resource Centre, Ghana
	Vocational training campus, Pakistan The Pakistan Development Foundation has as its goal to help underprivileged young people and reverse the poverty spiral by offering easily accessible vocational education and training, and by providing assistance in starting a career. The PDF will build a vocational training campus, which makes education available to underprivileged young people from the slums of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The Turing Foundation supports the construction of an accommodation (€ 50,000) for the air conditioning and refrigeration department on the campus to be built. Update 2008: unfortunately this project had to be cancelled due to governance problems at the Pakistan partner organisation.
	Primary school with teachers' accommodation in Idi, Atjeh The Z.O.T. Foundation carries out aid programmes in Indonesia. The organisation focuses especially on the construction of schools in areas where the infrastructure was destroyed - in Atjeh, for example, which is a region that suffered greatly from the 2002 tsunami and the military conflicts of the past few years. The Turing Foundation contributes € 50,000 to the construction and equipment of Maasschool 2, a primary school and teachers' accommodation in Idi, Atjeh (Indonesia). see also: SDN Bukit Kuta Diresmikan Opening of the Maasschool in Atjeh, 30 August 2007
	School for street children in Lombok, Indonesia The Peduli Anak Foundation is devoted to street children on the island of Lombok, Indonesia. The foundation plans to build three relief centres (for 40 children per house) and a school. The institute will able to house 144 (former) street children at the most. Apart from a reception centre for street children, approximately 50 primary and secondary jobs will be created after full implementation of the project. The Turing Foundation takes care of the costs for the construction and equipment of the school (€ 25,000). see also: Turing Foundation Donates School The new school in Lombok
	Computer lessons, Philippines 2007 Zone One Tondo Organisation (ZOTO) is a popular movement, established in 1970, which offers help to the poor people of the Philippines between 10 and 24 years of age, in various fields: from education to technical support or financial support for the costs of living. In 2007, the Turing Foundation pays for the equipment for the computer room. It also finances the computer courses for 300 young people organized by ZOTO during the coming three years (€ 36,000 in total). Zone One staff test the freshly installed computers
	Teaching programmes in children's homes, Doganovo and Roman, Bulgaria The Stichting Kindertehuizen Bulgarije (Foundation for Children's Homes in Bulgaria) supports five children's homes in the vicinity of Sofia, housing 400 (mostly Roma) children in total. The foundation assists the children's homes in renovation projects and helps them to provide food, clothing, linen, medical care and education. During the coming three years, the Turing Foundation donates € 40,000 to educational programmes (for example in English, computer science, and sewing) for children and young people in the children's homes of Doganovo and Roman. Computer Science, Doganovo, Bulgaria
	Educational programme for an orphanage, Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka 2007 The Weeshuis Sri Lanka Foundation constructs and develops an orphanage in Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka to house 300 orphans. Many of them became orphans as a direct result of the 2004 tsunami. Part of this project is an educational programme for these 300 children and 200 others who live in the vicinity of the orphanage. The project aims to offer a training programme that suits the market and the country's needs. The Turing Foundation will take on the costs of the educational activities in 2007, 2008 and 2009 (€ 50,000 per year). Stichting Weeshuis Sri Lanka
	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, the Liliane Foundation helps those children to go to school. What especially appeals to the Turing Foundation is that the Liliane Foundation in this way offers opportunities to children who cannot be helped by any other educational relief organisation, because their needs are too small-scaled. The Turing Foundation donates € 250,000 to the Liliane Foundation in 2007 for basic facilities (in locations such as Tanguiéta, North-Benin) and educational aid for approximately 1,300 children. see also: Turing Foundation helpt kinderen in Benin key facilities, Tanguiéta, Northern Benin
	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. UAF's application procedure allows students who rightly claim the refugee status as referred to in article 1 of the Geneva Refugee Convention to start their studies without having to wait for their residence permit. Approximately 300 UAF-students graduate each year. The Turing Foundation donates € 50,000 per year to the UAF in the coming three years.
	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. The school was one time established by a small group of former residents of the village who had started a new life in Great-Britain. The school does not receive any government financial support and is therefore fully dependent on the tuitions of the pupils and of private donations. In 2007, the Turing Foundation sponsors the purchase of teaching materials and sports equipment (€ 1.400,-). Kebba Jarju Memorial Nursery
	Educational tools for 42 primary schools, Rwanda The Église Épiscopale de Rwanda carries out the 'Ongera Ubumenye' educational project in the district of Nyamagabe in the Southern province of Rwanda. The main aim of the project is to improve the quality of and participation (of especially girls) in education. Quality will be improved by teacher refresher courses. The 42 primary schools involved in the project lack basic educational tools such as school desks, blackboards, chalks, notebooks and pencils. The Turing Foundation pays for half of these educational tools in 2007 (€ 10.000). The 'Ongera Ubumenye' educational project