The Turing Foundation

The Turing Foundation strives to offer children and young people the kind of education that can help them structurally, encourage their independence and autonomy, and enable them to contribute to their communities.

The Turing Foundation regards education as a means to offer people new opportunities in their lives in a constructive, structural and respectful way. Moreover, education benefits not only the individual, but also his environment and society as a whole. It can be seen as a sustainable method of poverty reduction.

Our policy aims to increase the availability of quality education in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cameroon, D.R. Congo, Kenya and Tanzania. We focus on primary education (from the age of 6), secondary education, and (as a specific area of interest) vocational training. More information can be found in our application procedures for education.

School book project for primary schools, Northwest Cameroon
Knowledge for Children supports rural schools in Northwest Cameroon by building up a decent book stock and effectively using books as an instructional tool in education. A book fund will also be set up in order for the schools to eventually manage and supplement the book stock themselves. With its activities, Knowledge for Children aims at improving the level of education for primary school children between the ages of 6 and 14.

The Turing Foundation will contribute €33.500 in 2010, and intends to continue support in 2011 and 2012 (by contributing €30.000 and €25.000 respectively).

School books for primary schools, Northwest Cameroon

Programme for tutoring teenagers in South Kivu, D.R. Congo
ZOA Refugee Care wants to offer primary education in 3 years to youths from returnee families who missed one or more years of primary education. This mainly concerns orphans, ex-child soldiers, child victims of abuse, exploitation or poverty. Existing education centres will be supported in their implementation of a tutoring programme for 3,300 youths, for a period of 3 years. Education officials as well as the school inspection will be trained to supervise the programme.

The Turing Foundation will contribute €40.000 in 2010 and intends to continue support in 2011 and 2012 (by contributing €35.000 and €30.000 respectively).

Tiener-bijscholingsprogramma, Kivu, D.R. Congo

Technical school, Passakongo, Burkina Faso
In 2002, the Háparako Foundation set up a vocational training centre for rural youths with the primary goal to create employment. Led by local partner RSV, existing vocational training programmes will now be transformed into a technical school where 60 students between the ages of 12 and 18 will receive extra training in primary education and learn a trade over a 4-year period. The local partner expects that after a start-up phase of a few years, they will be able to bear the costs of the vocational training centre themselves.

The Turing Foundation will contribute €32.000 in 2010 and intends to continue support in 2011 and 2012 (by contributing €13.500 and €13.500 respectively).

Fietsenwerkplaats, Technische School, Passakongo, Burkina Faso

New school, Mamfe, Kameroen
LiveBuild, in association with United Action for Children (UAC), wants to set up a high-quality school in Mamfe. UAC has already realised a similar school in Buea, with smaller classes, quality education, information on HIV and Aids, vocational training, tutoring and computer training. School results of the Buea school are among the best of its area. The school in Mamfe wants to match that success level.

The Turing Foundation will contribute €25.000 in 2010 for the building of the school in Mamfe.

School complex, Buea, Kameroen

Building of a medical school in Kiliba, D.R. Congo
Focus on Education, in association with the local NGO Fondation Chirezi, wants to set up an intermediate vocational school for health care with a capacity of 150 students a year. The school will offer a 3-year nurse training, after which graduates can start working at local health centres and small rural medical clinics. The school targets underprivileged boys and girls between the ages of 14 and 20.

The Turing Foundation will contribute €35.000 in 2010.

Bouw Medische School, Kiliba, D.R. Congo

Building of a technical school in Kambila, Mali
The Mali Foundation, in association with its local partner Solisa, will set up a basic technical school to provide some prospect beside primary education in an area where there is no secondary education whatsoever. The object is to school underprivileged youths for trades that are needed in the area. Trainings will consist of 3, 6, and 12-month modules.

The Turing Foundation will contribute €40.000 in 2010 for the building of the technical school.

The new school in Kenenkou, donated by the Turing Foundation

Container shipment for technical education, Tanzania
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.

Gereedschap voor Technisch Onderwijs, Tanzania

Teacher training in South Kivu, D.R. Congo
Children in Crisis is a British NGO that works on educational projects in post-conflict zones such as Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Liberia. In Southern Kivu, DRC, 72 head masters and 500 teachers will be trained, school curricula will be developed and teaching materials will be spread in the coming few years, all this to structurally improve the level of education and school results.

The Turing Foundation contributes € 40,000 to the project

Teacher training in South Kivu, D.R. Congo

ICT Vocational Training Programmes, Nairobi, Kenia 2010
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.

Like last year, the Turing Foundation will donate €27,000 to the NairoBits Vocational Training Program.

Butterfly Works, Nairobi, Kenya

Social and financial skills for children, Ghana, 2010
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 until 2011. The project is implemented by the ngo WADEP (Women and Development Project).

WADEP Trainees,2006

Farming and Livelihood Improvement Programme, Ghana 2010-2011
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.

Farming and Livelihood Improvement Programme, Ghana

Teacher training in Northern Cameroon, 2010-2012
VSO sends out vocational specialists to developing countries in Africa and Asia who can share their knowledge and experience with local organisations, helping them to do their work in a more efficient way. The project that will run in Northern Cameroon for the coming three years means that four specialists will develop training modules for teachers, headmasters, parents' councils and civil servants serving education. Moreover, several activities are organised to make education more accessible to girls.

The Turing Foundation contributes € 30,000 on an annual basis in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Teacher training in Far North Region, Cameroon

Extra classrooms and teacher training, Bona, Burkina Faso
The Association for Small African Projects labours to improve the welfare of inhabitants of nine poor villages in Western Burkina Faso. In 2010, teachers of the nine villages and the surrounding area will be trained further in modern teaching techniques. Apart from that, the elementary school in the village of Bona will be expanded by three news classrooms, toilets and two teacher's houses.

In 2010, the Turing Foundation contributes € 30,000 to the teachers training programme and the expansion of the school.

Extra classrooms and teacher training, Bona, Burkina Faso

Income Generating Programma for Vocational Training, Kisumu, Kenia
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.

Income Generating Programma for Vocational Training, Kisumu, Kenia

Construction of new elementary school classrooms, Gountoëto, Benin
The Le Pont Foundation is active in Benin in the field of education, health care, water and sanitation. In 2010, Le Pont will construct three extra classrooms for the existing elementary school in Gountoëto, which serves 260 pupils. The community is actively involved and does not only contribute financially, but also supplies workers for the construction activities.

In 2010, the Turing Foundation donates € 11,500 towards the construction of the classrooms.

Huidige situatie Gountoëto

Educational Programme for Orphanage, Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka 2009
The Stichting Weeshuis Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka Orphanage Foundation) 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. As of the end of 2008 the orphanage can house 200 children.

Just like the last two years, the Turing Foundation takes on the cost of these educational activities in 2009 (€ 50,000,- a year).

Stichting Weeshuis Sri Lanka

School Support Programme in the Upper Shiran Valley, Pakistan 2009
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.

Just like last year, the Turing Foundation finances approximately two thirds (€ 40,000) of the running costs.

Stichting Haashar, Pakistan

Jobortunity Training Institute, Arusha, Tanzania
Jobortunity is a new training institute in the city of Arusha, Tanzania. Underprivileged young people can follow a one-year course to prepare them for a career in the tourist industry. 120 young people will be trained per year and the first courses will start in November 2009. The institute will develop income-generating activities in order to reduce its dependence on donors.

The Turing Foundation contributes € 50,000 to the costs for 2009 and 2010.

Jobortunity Training Institute, Arusha, Tanzania

Vocational Training Centre Olokii, Tanzania
Dorcas Hulp Nederland has set up a vocational training centre in the poor, rural outskirts of the city of Arusha. In 2009 the centre started with the training of the first 50 pupils. The aim is that, from 2012, 150 pupils will receive training at the centre every year without the need of further external funding. The government will take care of the salaries of the teachers.

The Turing Foundation contributes € 35,000 to the costs for 2009 and 2010.

Vocational Training Centre Olokii, Tanzania

Grants for Talented Underprivileged Children, Ghana 2009-2010
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.

In 2009, just like last year, the Turing Foundation invests € 10,000 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 contributes € 20,000 to this project in 2009, on top of last year's € 40,000.

Lesson by Ex-Spinal Cord Lesion Patient in Bangladesh

Improvement of education for 1,500 children in Balochistan, Pakistan 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 from 2007 until the end of 2009.

Pupils in Balochistan, Pakistan

Education for 250 street children in Calcutta, India, 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.

Since 2007, the Turing Foundation covers the full educational costs of the project, amounting to € 56,000 in 2009.

Rainbow Home, Calcutta

Construction and equipment of a new Vocational Training Centre, Bamako, Mali
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 contributes € 40,000 to the construction and equipment of this new vocational centre.

Construction and equipment of a new Vocational Training Centre, Bamako, Mali

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.

Vocational Training: Carpentry, Mai Mahiu, Kenya

Vocational Education for the Loita Maasai, Narok South District, Kenya
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.

Loita Maasai, Narok South District, Kenya

School Improvement Programme, Kenya
Net4Kids supports the School Improvement Programme in Kenya, launched by the organisation International Child Support. Representatives from schools and communities work together in this programme to ensure good quality education. Centres are set up which offer supporting study materials to teachers and students and advice on school infrastructure, school furniture and teacher training programmes.

By donating € 26,180, the Turing Foundation adopts the full programmes for the districts of Busia and Teso in Western Kenya at 9 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 vocational institution.

School Improvement Programme, Kenya

Construction and equipment for a new Vocational Training Centre, Kisumu, Kenya
Together with local organisations BIG Ltd and Pandipieri Centre, Vision, Commitment and Action in Africa (VCAA) is setting up a technical training centre for underprivileged youngsters in Kisumu, Western Kenya. The centre will be offering a practice-based two-year training programme in car mechanics, and will cater for 30 young boys and girls annually.

The Turing Foundation contributes € 16.500 towards the construction and equipment of this new training centre.

Practice-based Two-Year Training Programme for Car Mechanics, Kisumu, Kenya

Foundation for Refugee Students UAF 2009
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.

Just like the past few years, the Turing Foundation donates € 50,000 to the UAF in 2009.

UAF dimplomas 2008

Computer rooms for Secondary Schools in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda 2009
Together with several partners in the educational sector, the Viafrica Foundation supports educational organisations in Africa in ICT use and management. Via their programme CLASSworks (Computer Learning and Sustainable Support Works) it assists schools in setting up, using and managing suitable computer rooms, trains teachers and helps schools in managing their hard- and software. At present, Viafrica supports more than 75 schools in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. 30 new school projects will be launched this year.

Like last year, the Turing Foundation will contribute € 40,000 towards Viafrica's projects.

CLASSWorks Programme, Tanzania, Viafrica

School on Wheels, Cameroon
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.

Until 2010, the Turing Foundation acts 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, 2009
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 contributes € 150,000 to this program, which runs until 2010.

Informal Skills Training Programma, Kenia

Education in the Slum Area of Vila Cruzeiro in Rio de Janeiro 2009
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 2009 again finances the full project cost of € 50,000.

Computer lessons, Philippines 2009
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 ZOTO computer courses for 300 young people until the end of 2009 (€ 36,000 in total).

students of the computer courses 2008

Construction and equipment of a primary school in Balandougou, Mali
The Dutch Mali Foundation and its regular Malinese partner Solisa support the local people in the hills surrounding the city of Bamako, and seek, among others, to set up primary education for both boys and girls. In 2007 and 2008 the Turing Foundation financed the building of several schools by the foundation. The current project is the building of a primary school in Balandougou, using the same concept as before (3 classrooms, furniture, educational materials, latrines, and a sports field).

With € 20,000 the Turing Foundation covers roughly half the building and furnishing costs of the new school.

Old situation in Balandougou, Mali

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

Educational projects Liliane Foundation 2009
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.

Just like last year, the Turing Foundation donates € 150,000 to the Liliane Foundation in 2009 for help to children in the field of education. With this amount, the Liliane Foundation will be able to help more than 1,500 children. see also:
Kinderen kunnen naar school dankzij Turing Foundation

Thanks to a prosthesis, these children can now go to school

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:
      Nieuwsbrief uit Yatenga mei 2009
      Beroepsonderwijs in Burkina Faso weer een stap dichterbij
      Turing Foundation draagt 150.000 Euro bij aan bouw onderwijscomplex
      Nieuwsbrief uit Yatenga okt 2007
      Grote sponsor voor project van stichting WOL

The new Zoodo college buildings in Yatenga, 2009

Construction and equipment of the secondary school for Kainam, Tanzania 2009-2010
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

Education for Aids Orphans and Street Children in Katutura, Namibia 2009
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 2009 (€ 10,000).

Shalom Centre, Katature, Windhoek, Namibia

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 equipment of a trade school in Chepchoina, Kenya
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. 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 (2 classrooms, 4 teachers' lodgings, 4 instruction rooms, facilities and equipment).

Chepchoina, Kenia

Technical and vocational training in Nyonko and Fada N'Gourma, Burkina Faso
By boosting technical training, ETC's Technical Training Programme focuses on human resource development and capacity building in developing countries. The ETC ("Educational Training Consultants") has included two technical and vocational training institutes in Burkina Faso in its programme. Etablissement Gabriel Taborin is located in Nyonko, a suburb of the capital Ouagadougou. Among other things, four additional classrooms are being built there. The Centre Formation Professionelle is located in the town of Fada N'Gourma in eastern Burkina Faso. One of the projects here is to renovate the wiring. Both schools are also being offered teacher training and management consultancy programmes.

By contributing €50,000 the Turing Foundation will finance one half of the project costs.

Technical and vocational training in Nyonko and Fada N'Gourma, Burkina Faso

Construction and equipment of a school in Agome Anedi, Togo
Having collaborated with Les Compagnons Ruraux on nature conservation before, under the supervision of this Togolese organisation the Turing Foundation will help replace the self-built school in Agome Anedi by a new building comprising of three classrooms, a canteen and latrines. The school is also being provided with furnishings and educational materials.

The Turing Foundation will cover all the costs (€44,000) that go toward building and furnishing the new school.

The old school building of Agome Anedi - no lessons during the rainy season

Vocational training for underprivileged young people in Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Vialisa Foundation's aim is to offer a more hopeful perspective to the underprivileged youth in the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Vialisa offers refresher courses, training and support to young people between the ages of 15 and 22 who have never or hardly ever been to school. The Foundation also mediates in helping them take the next step towards further (vocational) training or onto the job market.

The Turing Foundation will contribute €12,500 to Vialisa's activities in 2009.

Beroepsonderwijs voor kansarme jongeren in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Construction of an ecological school in Sinia, D.R. Congo
The Wasmoeth Wildlife Foundation protects animals threatened with extinction. One of its projects is the establishment of a nature reserve (Boyoma Sanctuary) on an island in the River Congo, near the village of Sinia. None of the children in this village ever attended a school, since there were no schools in the surrounding area. At the request of the local authorities, the foundation is building a primary school which can accommodate 180 pupils - to be extended later to 360 pupils. Ecology is part of the educational programme.

The Turing Foundation finances the full construction costs of this school (€ 40,000).

Inhabitants of Sinia, Democratic Republic of Congo

Furnishing two school libraries in Kabul, Afghanistan
The Paymaan Foundation provides structural educational support to children in Afghanistan. Apart from financing the adoption of street children and orphans, the Foundation furnishes school libraries in Kabul by providing book cases, books, computers and various other materials.

The Turing Foundation will cover all the costs (€13,000) for furnishing of a library in two schools in Kabul.

Inrichting van twee schoolbibliotheken in Kabul, Afghanistan

Building two schools in Efa and Sofiè, Togo
The R.C. Maagdenhuis Foundation supports locally initiated small-scale projects in developing countries. A network of local advisors provides recommendations on the projects’ feasibility and monitors their progress. Collaborating with ARBES, a local organisation, and with parents and pupils closely involved the Foundation builds schools in rural areas. ARBES operates in the Agou prefecture near Kpalimé.

By contributing met € 35.000 the Turing Foundation will finance half of the building costs of two schools in Efa and Sofié.

The current school building

Extension and furnishing of a school in Kuma Konda, Togo
Having collaborated with Les Compagnons Ruraux on nature conservation before, under the supervision of this Togolese organisation the Turing Foundation will help extend the school in Kuma Konda with an additional classroom, a canteen and latrines. The school is also being provided with educational materials.

The Turing Foundation will finance all the costs (€27,000) that go toward building and furnishing the extension.

The school in Kuma Konda

Improvement of vocational training in Nyakabiga, Burundi 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.

Students at work in the Vocational Training Centre in Nyakabiga, Burundi

Vocational training in Nairobi, Kenia
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.

ChildsLife Vocational Training Centre Nairobi, Kenya

Construction of a primary school in Isitu, Tanzania
Connect International supports small-scale sustainable self-help projects of local organisations in developing countries. The foundation is establishing a school in the Tanzanian village of Isitu, including a water supply, a vegetable garden and a tree plantation. In addition, it launches a three-year programme to improve the operation of the school and the quality of education.

The Turing Foundation finances two thirds of the construction and the interior of the school and the programme cost up to and including 2010 (€ 30,000 in total).

Tanzanian villagers building a new school

Construction of a primary school in N'goro, Mali
The Dutch Mali Foundation and its permanent Malinese partner Solisa together support the community living in the hills around the town of Bamako in Mali, and try to set up institutions of primary education, for both boys and girls. On an earlier occasion, the Turing Foundation already financed the construction of a school by this foundation. This time, the Mali Foundation constructs a primary school for 300 pupils in the village of N'goro, Mali, in accordance with the concept used before (including three classrooms, school furniture, teaching materials, latrines and a sports field).

By donating € 25,000, the Turing Foundation finances approximately two thirds of the costs of construction and equipment for this new school.

Mali Foundation

Tools for Ghana
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.

An Earlier Shipment of Rescued and Refurbished Tools for the Ghana Young Artisan Movement

Building a primary school in Sukuma, Laos
Child's Dream helps underprivileged children in the Mekong region by improving the social circumstances and the level of education. In the village of Sukuma, Laos, the foundation takes care of the construction and equipping of a primary school. The school will have twelve classrooms to house its 776 pupils and 22 teachers. The teachers will be trained in modern teaching methods.

By donating € 39,000, the Turing Foundation finances half of the construction and interior costs of the new school.

Khon Kaen Primary School, Laos - old situation

School Library en Vocational Training Workshop, Wajir, Kenya
The Stichting Welzijn Wajir (Welfare Wajir Foundation) supports the poorest community in and around Wajir (North-Eastern Kenya), especially in the field of education, health care, food supply and welfare. With respect to education, the foundation particularly focuses on the construction of schools and, recently, also on training.

The Turing Foundation finances the complete construction and equipping of the library of the Furaha Mixed Day Secondary School (€ 20,000) and the renovation of a workshop for vocational education of the Wajir High School (€ 11,000).

Furaha Mixed Day Secondary School, Wajir, Kenya

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Educational Resource Centre, Komenda, Ghana

Construction and renovation of the Milalani Primary School, Msambweni, Kenya

Building of a school in Kenenkou, Mali

Enlargement of a school in Lomé, Togo

Improvement of vocational training in Nyakabiga, Burundi 2007

Construction Macha Innovative Community School, Macha, Zambia