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EDUCATION
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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.
Most recent projects:
As of 2022 it is no longer possible to submit education applications to the Turing Foundation.
The descriptions below concern tranches of multi-year projects that have already been awarded.
As of 2022 it is no longer possible to submit education applications to the Turing Foundation.
The descriptions below concern tranches of multi-year projects that have already been awarded.
 October 2023 |
EN-power, vocational training, Bafoussam, Cameroon 2023 Masterpeace is a network organisation of 50 local clubs in 40 countries. Its mission is to give young people perspective to... more |  October 2023 |
Digital education, Niger en Togo, 2023 The Second Wave Education Foundation (SWEF) team has developed an application for primary school children in Francophone African... more |
 August 2023 |
Nurse training, Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2023 Médecins sans Frontières (MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders) provides medical assistance to people in need. In some cases, MSF... more |  April 2023 |
Expansion of the school mentorship programme, Niger, 2023 RAIN has been working on sustainable water and food systems, women's economic development and education in the Agadez... more |
 April 2023 |
Women Work! Empowerment through Employment, Koubri, Burkina Faso, 2023 Jugend Eine Welt is an Austrian development organisation that aims to improve the future prospects of children... more |  April 2023 |
Nursing Training, D.R. Congo, 2023-2023 Wonder Foundation was established in the United Kingdom in 2012. The organisation supports NGOs in eighteen countries that are committed to... more |
Project details:
As of 2022 it is no longer possible to submit education applications to the Turing Foundation.
The descriptions below concern tranches of multi-year projects that have already been awarded.
As of 2022 it is no longer possible to submit education applications to the Turing Foundation.
The descriptions below concern tranches of multi-year projects that have already been awarded.
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EN-power, vocational training, Bafoussam, Cameroon 2023
Masterpeace is a network organisation of 50 local clubs in 40 countries. Its mission is to give young people perspective to combat polarisation, poverty and migration. Hope for a Better Future (H4BF) is one of the local Masterpeace clubs. It works with and for communities in rural areas on various themes, such as employment. H4BF is setting up a training programme for 300 young people for subjects in the growth areas of sustainable energy and ICT. It is involving at least 30 companies in the training programme so that the content is in line with market needs. Together with the Chamber of Commerce, it is improving the business climate so that these companies can flourish and create jobs. Six Cameroonian teachers are being trained by international expert partners, so that they can train 25 other teachers to teach these subjects. An open-source platform including best practices and teaching modules makes it easy for other clubs to roll this out in their country. The Turing Foundation is contributing €90,000 towards this project (of which €26,000 in 2023).
See also:
 EN-power, Vaktraining, Bafoussam, Kameroen |
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Digital education, Niger en Togo, 2023
The Second Wave Education Foundation (SWEF) team has developed an application for primary school children in Francophone African countries. The start is in Togo and Niger, other countries will follow. Many children in the final year of primary school fail the African equivalent of the Cito-test keeping them to advance to secondary education. This was the reason to develop P'titPousse; an online tool to move up a level and perform better. At the request of teachers and parents, SWEF expands the application to other learning levels. For online education is becoming increasingly important in Africa through COVID-19. In addition, in Niger there is a continuous threat of terrorists. The result is that many children live in refugee camps and others in remote areas do not go to school out of fear. SWEF cooperates closely with the UN organisation for refugees (UNHCR) and local NGO's. The Turing Foundation is contributing €35,000 towards this project.
See also:
 Digitaal onderwijs, Guinée en Niger |
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Nurse training, Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2023
Médecins sans Frontières (MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders) provides medical assistance to people in need. In some cases, MSF makes a long-term commitment to a country, such as Sierra Leone. Health care, especially for children and mothers, is very poor. For this reason, MSF, in close consultation with the government, has set up a hospital in Kenema specialising in paediatrics and maternity care. In addition to providing medical assistance, the hospital is going to be a training place for new healthcare personnel. In the coming years they want to train 180 new nurses on the job to become independently operating professionals. MSF can utilise its accumulated knowledge and experience, and hopes that the government will eventually adopt its extensive curriculum with better teaching methods focusing on the students and incorporating self-assessment and peer review. The Turing Foundation is contributing €100,000 towards this project (of which, €25,000 in 2023).
See also:
 Training nurses, Kenema, Sierra Leone. Foto ©MSF/Vincenzo Livieri |
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Expansion of the school mentorship programme, Niger, 2023
RAIN has been working on sustainable water and food systems, women's economic development and education in the Agadez region of Niger for nearly 20 years. The organisation has a local team with fourteen members from the region. Turing supported a RAIN female mentorship programme from 2017-2019 in which more children, especially girls, in 22 villages stayed at school and progressed to further education. The results have been positive. A total of 96% passed their primary school exams; this is more than three times the national rate. Female enrolment for secondary schools increased by an impressive 62%. The mentors have started savings and loan groups with other women which are now operating well and independently. The women have gained income and prestige in their community. They will continue fulfilling their role as mentors after the project period. This project is expanding this successful mentorship programme, after much local demand, to 19 new villages in the Agadez region. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 60,000 towards this project (of which, € 20,000 in 2023).
See also:
 Expansion of the school mentorship programme, Niger |
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Women Work! Empowerment through Employment, Koubri, Burkina Faso, 2023
Jugend Eine Welt is an Austrian development organisation that aims to improve the future prospects of children and young people by focusing on education. In West Africa, Jugend Eine Welt works with Filiarum Mariae Auxiliatricis, the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco. This is also the case in Burkina Faso. In 2018 they built a training centre in Koubri for disadvantaged girls and young women aged 15-35. This project is to support the training centre, allowing 300 girls and young women to complete vocational training over three years. In addition, this support gives the centre the opportunity to generate its own income from school fees, from the local private sector, and from services and selling products like soap and bread. The Turing Foundation is contributing €38,000 towards this project (of which € 15.000 in 2023).
See also:
 Women Work! Empowerment through Employment in Koubri, Burkina Faso |
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Nursing Training, D.R. Congo, 2023-2023
Wonder Foundation was established in the United Kingdom in 2012. The organisation supports NGOs in eighteen countries that are committed to education and employment for girls and women. In D.R. Congo, Wonder has been working with ISSI, a local nursing programme since 2015, and also provides scholarships. This project is supporting 40 young women during their three-year nurse training. An online platform is also being developed to provide online training for nurses across the country, starting with an important hygiene course for 1,200 nurses. This provides training to a large group of working nurses, who can improve their skills and not only provide better care but also increase their market value. The Turing Foundation is contributing €45,000 towards this project (of which €10,000 in 2023).
See also:
 Nursing Training, Wonder Foundation |
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Local leaders to strengthen the education sector, Liberia, 2022
Teach for All is a network organisation with partners in 56 countries. The organisation has developed a model supported by data that aims to achieve more and better leadership in a country to improve the educational situation. Its partner, Teach for Liberia, wants to improve educational opportunities for children in Liberia by selecting promising young talent, training them and getting them to teach a primary school class for two years. All of them are stimulated to develop their leadership skills by taking an active role in the community, participating in local learning circles, and strengthening other teachers' capacity. A network of graduates and other community leaders also stimulates collaboration to achieve structural improvement. The Turing Foundation is contributing €44,000 (of which €22,000 in 2022) to develop a group of eight young people as strong leaders in two years.
See also:
 Local leaders to strengthen the education sector, Liberia |
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Professional development and workforce placement for youth, Niger, 2022
The French Association Yara LCN gives more than 350 children and young people in Zinder (Niger) a better future by providing primary education and vocational training, and coordinating the management and operational activities of four educational buildings: two boarding schools (including one in Niamey since 2019), a primary school and a vocational training centre in Zinder. Yara LCN wants to give 120 young people in Zinder a place on one of their five vocational training courses in the 2021-2022 school year. The organisation also helps 80 graduates look for work, with 30% receiving a starter kit. The vocational training centre opened its own training restaurant in 2021, which is expected to generate increasing amounts of revenue for the centre. The organisation also wants to generate income for the sewing and woodworking courses by opening workshops. A yet-to-be-established sponsorship system will generate funds locally and in due course reduce dependence on foreign donors. The Turing Foundation is supporting this project with €10,000
See also:
 Professional development and workforce placement for youth, Niger |
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Renovation of and teacher training at primary schools, Walungu, South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2022
ChildFund Germany is one of eleven members of the global ChildFund Alliance and aims to empower children in disadvantaged positions and their families and communities. Together they work in more than 50 countries including D.R. Congo. For this project ChildFund is collaborating with the local organisation Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission Bukavu. They want to renovate three large and important primary schools. Together with Edukans and their local training team, they are also training teachers at 27 schools in an active and child-oriented teaching method (this is another project supported by the Turing Foundation). There is a training session every six months and teachers are given on-the-job coaching. A core team of eleven people, including six teachers, is being taught to become trainers so that training can continue and be expanded after this project. Number of dropouts is expected to decrease and greater pupil and teacher attendance will improve learning outcomes. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 133,000 towards this project (of which, € 13,000 in 2022).
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 Renovation of and teacher training at primary schools, Walungu, South Kivu, D.R. Congo |
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Educating and mentoring l'AMI language specialists, Pays Dogon, Mali, 2022
The Partners Pays-Dogon organisation facilitates projects that contribute to regional development in the Dogon country. The Turing Foundation is already supporting a nature conservation project that aims to prevent destruction and stimulate greening in the area and supported this educational project in an earlier phase. Together with their local partner ADI, they introduced the active and child-centred teaching method l'AMI at 42 primary schools. They now want to strengthen this by training 42 'expert teachers' to become self-confident language specialists. They will train other teachers in this method and oversee them to ensure they apply it properly in lessons. The training course takes place annually with refresher days twice a year to refresh the teachers' knowledge and skills. There is a great deal of interest in this project, and there are also other activities to introduce this method to the Malian teacher training course. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 60,000 towards this project (of which, € 10,000 in 2022).
See also:
 Educating and mentoring language specialists l'AMI, Pays Dogon, Mali |
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Safer schools, improving education, South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2022
Street Child, known as Children in Crisis until 2019, has been working since 2007 with its local partner Ebenezer Ministry International (EMI) on the isolated High Plateau in South Kivu to improve education for more than 60,000 children. The Turing Foundation has been supporting this work since 2010. Despite the difficult circumstances, they have persisted in their endeavour to structurally improve education, training more than 1,700 teachers in 314 schools. This project involves extending the programme to an even more difficult area with 90 primary schools. Teacher trainers at 30 secondary schools teach how to train a better and larger group of female teachers. Schools are given assistance to improve their management and generate income. The most vulnerable families receive help to increase their ability to support themselves so that they can keep sending their children to school. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 134,000 towards this project (of which, € 42,000 in 2022).
See also:
 Safer schools, improving education, South Kivu, D.R. Congo |
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Growing small businesses through apprenticeship training, Pujehun, Sierra Leone, 2022
Action on Poverty UK stimulates employment opportunities for disadvantaged groups in five countries, including Sierra Leone. Turing has previously supported two of their programmes in the country. This project supplements a larger programme strengthening nineteen Community Based Organisations (CBOs) in the disadvantaged district of Pujehun so that members are better able to improve the lives of residents in their community. Among other things, they learn how they can help 38 craftsmen to transfer their skills to young people. CBO members are also taught to train 380 young people in entrepreneurship and literacy. The CBOs are given a rotating fund to manage, which provides loans to graduates to start new businesses or grow existing businesses. Experience from previous programmes shows that this kind of intervention gives a good and lasting boost to villagers' activities and self-reliance. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 50,000 towards this project.
See also:
 Community Based Organisation, Action on Poverty, Sierra Leone |
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"Reading Liberia 20/22", Bomi, Margibi en Grand Bassa, Liberia, 2022
The Canadian Organisation for Development through Education (CODE) is committed to combating illiteracy in Liberia. CODE, together with its local partners, is increasing primary school teachers' professional capacity so that they can teach children to read better. They are also stimulating the local children's book sector by publishing and distributing books. The Turing Foundation is supporting the CODE programme in Liberia in 2019 and 2020. In 2019, 95 teachers were trained at sixteen schools, seven books were published, and more than ten thousand reading books were distributed. In the new 2020-2022 programme period, CODE will work with fifteen new schools. It will also start an after-school programme at 25 schools it already works with for a group of 375 older girls in the lowest classes to accelerate their progress to a higher level to prevent them from dropping out. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 100,000 towards this project (of which € 24,000 in 2022).
See also:
 "Reading Liberia", Bomi, Margibi en Grand Bassa, Liberia |
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"The Light of Learning", teacher training and quality improvement, Tahoua en Diffa, Niger, 2021
Concern Worldwide, founded in 1968, is an international humanitarian organisation committed to fighting poverty in the poorest countries, focused on emergency aid, education, HIV/AIDS, health care and livelihoods. The foundation improves education at 54 schools in Niger by creating a safe learning environment for 13,100 children and improving the teaching skills of 280 teachers. Each school formulates and enforces a code of conduct and the children participate in decision making via a child-led council. Concern Worldwide also helps the government provide good teaching materials, train teachers in bilingual education (so that children learn to read better, and increasing parental involvement), give refresher training to teachers, and teach trainers how to monitor learning outcomes. When the project is finished, significantly more children will be able to read fluently, pupils and teachers' presence will be better monitored, and the number of violent incidents will have decreased. The Turing Foundation is contributing €150,000 towards this project (of which, €50,000 in 2021).
See also:
 "The Light of Learning", quality improvement at schools, Tahoua en Diffa, Niger |
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"Right to Learn", Kono, Kallahun and Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2021
The British NGO Street Child started in 2008 with a small project for 100 street children in Sierra Leone. Street Child has now reached more than 100,000 children in Africa and Asia with its 'Education, Protection and Methodology' programmes. Together with its local partner Street Child of Sierra Leone, Street Child wants to use this project to improve the quality of education for 7,000 pupils at 35 schools and ensure that 1,400 pupils complete their final examinations every year. The 'Distant Learning' programme is giving a total of 50 unqualified teachers official training and recognition as teachers. Three senior teachers at each school receive extra training on the curriculum and general teaching skills. Pupils are given school materials and a classroom is being renovated. Initiatives are also being started to generate an income for the schools. The Turing Foundation is contributing €100,000 towards this project (of which, €13,000 in 2021).
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 "Right to Learn", Kono, Kallahun and Kenema, Sierra Leone |
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Job Booster social venture, north-western regions, Burkina Faso, 2021-2022
The JobBooster Burkina Faso social venture was founded in 2017 by Woord en Daad. Although Woord en Daad wants the social venture to operate more and more independently over time, it is still closely involved in governance and running the project for now. JobBooster acts as a broker between companies and vocational training courses. Market demand is central, which will increase young people's chances of successful employment and encourage vocational training courses to focus on the necessary skills. JobBooster signs agreements with companies to place young people and gives a donation to the best vocational training course to train young people. More than ten thousand young people have secured a job in this way to date. The Turing Foundation supported the project in 2018 and this contribution for 2020 and 2021 will help it reach the total of 15,000 young people in 2022. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 100,000 towards this project (of which € 50,000 in 2021).
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 Job Booster social venture, north-western regions, Burkina Faso |
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Helping young women to become teachers, Kambia, Sierra Leone, 2021-2022
The Pan African Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) was established in 1992 by five female African ministers of education and nineteen senior policy makers, with the aim of improving education for girls and women in Sub-Saharan Africa. FAWE Sierra Leone wants to increase the proportion of female teachers in primary education in rural areas. 50 young women in Kambia district are being given the opportunity to work as teaching assistants for six months. This will give them classroom experience and help them prepare for the entrance exam for the Distant Learning Programme. They will continue to work as teacher assistants during the training programme. Together with the 100 women already in the second year of the Distant Learning Programme, a total of 150 women will have earned their teaching qualifications by the end of the project. The Turing Foundation is contributing €150,000 towards this project (of which, €50,000 in 2021).
See also:
 Helping young women to become teachers, Kambia, Sierra Leone |
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Effective teachers for better learning results, Kinshasa district, D.R. Congo, 2021-2022
Edukans is a Dutch development organisation founded in 2002 and specialised in education for underprivileged children. Together with the organisations Bambale and Tosangana, Edukans is introducing its 'Active Teaching and Learning Methodology' to teacher training at 16 secondary schools. The new teachers can apply this improved teaching method when they start working at primary schools. In addition, 192 working teachers at 48 primary schools are being taught this method. The Turing Foundation already supported the first phase of this project with a contribution of € 150,000. Edukans now aims to quadruple the reach. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 75,000 towards this project (of which, € 10,000 in 2021).
See also:
 Effective teachers for better learning results, Kinshasa district |
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