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.

As from 2008, the main aim of our policy is to increase the availability of high quality education in developing countries. In order to reach our goals, we will focus on:

primary education (from the age of 6)
secondary education;
and vocational training, as a specific area of interest.

More information can be found in our application procedures for education.

Below you will find an impression of projects previously funded by the Turing Foundation.

Most recent projects (May 2008):

May 2008	Construction and Interior Primary School, Kisantu, Bas-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 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 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	Foundation for Refugee Students UAF 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...
May 2008	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...	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...
Februari 2008	Construction and interior of the secondary school for Kainam, Tanzania The Kamitei Foundation invests in primary and secondary education for rural children in Tanzania. Kamitei supplies facilities and goods, but also training read more...	Februari 2008	*Construction Macha Innovative Community School, Macha, Zambia* PrivaServe increases the independence and autonomy of the rural population in developing countries. read more...
Februari 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...	Februari 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...
Februari 2008	ICT curriculum for secondary schools in Tanzania, Kenya, Senegal and Uganda Viafrica helps secondary schools to offer their students ICT education, and to ensure a well-educated middle class. Schools must take read more...		Overview of other projects

	Construction and Interior Primary School, Kisantu, Bas-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 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 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: Vocational training in Burkina Faso has come one step closer Turing Foundation contributes €150,000 to the construction of an educational institute Newsletter from Yatenga Major sponsor for project by WOL Foundation The new school buildings in Yatenga
	Education in the Slum Area of Vila Cruzeiro in Rio de Janeiro 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 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.
	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. Leerlingen aan de URDT Girls School (Uganda) krijgen ook les in landbouwtechniek
	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 interior of the secondary school for Kainam, Tanzania 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).
	*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. PrivaServe Macha
	ICT curriculum for secondary schools in Tanzania, Kenya, Senegal and Uganda 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. Viafrica is planning to expand its operations to Senegal in 2008. The Turing Foundation donates € 147,500 to the Viafrica projects until 2010. CLASSWorks program, Tanzania, Viafrica
	Renovating & Building 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. An earlier project in Vingujini, Kenya
	Improvement of vocational training in Nyakabiga, Burundi 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. SOS Children's Villages builds a village where orphans can grow up with love
	Educational projects Liliane Foundation 2008-2009 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. 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 gaan 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 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.
	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 2008.
	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. Vocational training Architecture/Engineering, Moengo, Surinam
	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
	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
	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: Substantial donations for work 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
	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. zie ook: Turing Foundation sponsort Read to Grow 32.000 euro Books for Tokokoe, Ghana
	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 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, Katutura, Windhoek, Namibia
	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.
	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
	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 commits € 150,000 during the coming years 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. See also: Vocational training in Burkina Faso has come one step closer Turing Foundation contributes €150,000 to the construction of an educational institute Newsletter from Yatenga Major sponsor for project by WOL Foundation The new primary school building in Yatenga
	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
	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.
	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
	The Liliane Foundation 2007 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 € 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 helps children in Benin
	College Education for talented Antillean students “Through international education, experience and community service, United World Colleges enables young people to become responsible citizens, politically and environmentally aware, and committed to the ideals of peace and justice, understanding and cooperation, and the implementation of these ideals through action and personal example.” The Turing Foundation sponsors the 2006-2008 education of two talented Antillean students at the Atlantic College in Wales (€ 74,000).
	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,-).
	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).