The Turing Foundation - Education

Below is a list of Turing Foundation education projects up to July 2007.
An overview of recent projects can be found on our education page.

Education projects up to September 2007 :

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	Improvement of education for 1,500 children in Balochistan, Pakistan This Save the Children project will, among other things, provide ten schools with educational materials, trainings for teachers, read more...
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	ICT curriculum for secondary schools in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda Viafrica helps secondary schools to provide an ICT curriculum. The schools must themselves take the initiative, for example by read more...
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 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 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 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 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 2007-2009 The UAF supports higher educated refugees and asylum seekers in their studies and in finding a job by financial support, advice and coaching. read more...	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...

	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
	Improvement of education for 1,500 children in Balochistan, Pakistan 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 € 100,000, the Turing Foundation subsidises the full costs of the project until the end of 2009. Save The Children Worldwide
	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
	ICT curriculum for secondary schools in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda 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 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 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. Building the PDF Campus
	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 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 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 2007-2009 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