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October 2008

The Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation and resource Area - Mozambique
October 2008
Establishing Lubombo Transfrontier Marine Protected Area, Mozambique
The Peace Parks Foundation is devoted to protecting those natural areas that are located across the borders read more...

Nicolas de stael,  Montagne Sainte-Victoire , 1954
October 2008
Main Supporter Paris Central, CoBrA Museum, Amstelveen
The Cobra Movement was established in 1948 in Paris, the capital of European art of that time. In those years, the most read more...

Jan Lievens (1607-1674), self-portrait c 1629
October 2008
Main supporter 'Jan Lievens - A Dutch Master Rediscovered'
Jan Lievens was a prodigy child who lived in the seventeenth century. He established himself as an independent read more...

ChildsLife Vocational Training Centre Nairobi, Kenya
October 2008
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 read more...

Tanzanian villagers building a new school
October 2008
Construction of a primary school in Isitu, Tanzania
Connect International supports small-scale sustainable self-help projects of local organisations in developing countries. The read more...

Elizabeth Peyton in the Bonnefanten Museum
October 2008
Main Supporter Elizabeth Peyton exposition, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
The Bonnefanten Museum celebrates its 125th anniversary with several special exhibitions, such as a read more...

Leprosy Research - Role of Newly Defined T-Cells
October 2008
LUMC research "Immunopathology of leprosy: dissecting mechanisms of immune-mediated tissue damage in leprosy, and identification of new targets for intervention"
De Lepra bacterie heeft een hoge affiniteit voor Schwann cellen – cellen die een beschermende laag vormen om perifere zenuwen. read more...

Stichting Mali
October 2008
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 read more...

Svadebka! The Village Wedding
October 2008
World Premiere Svadebka! The Village Wedding
Svadebka! De Dorpsbruiloft (The Village Wedding) is the completed version of Stravinsky's unfinished instrumentation of Les Noces by read more...

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
October 2008
Main Supporter of the Children's Concert of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Following the success of Benjamin's Orchestra in 2007, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will in read more...

Opera per Tutti
October 2008
Opera per Tutti - Opera for everybody
Opera per Tutti puts on operas of good quality in an informal atmosphere. Parts of well-known or less famous operas are performed in a read more...

An Earlier Shipment of Rescued and Refurbished Tools for the Ghana Young Artisan Movement
October 2008
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. read more...

Khon Kaen Primary School, Laos
October 2008
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 read more...

Master of Frankfurt (middle panel, 1509) and Master of Delft (side panels, 1514)
October 2008
Main Supporter of The Secret of Silence, Roermondse Kartuizers
Stichting De Roermondse Kartuizers (The Carthusians of Roermond Foundation) organises the exhibition 'Het read more...

Vocational carpentry training - Red een Kind Foundation, Kenya
October 2008
Vocational training in Mai Mahiu, Kenya
Red een Kind supports children in developing countries who are confronted with poverty, discrimination, disasters or diseases by means of read more...

Furaha Mixed Day Secondary School, Wajir, Kenya
October 2008
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 read more...

Stichting Haashar, Pakistan
October 2008
School Support Programme in the Upper Shiran Valley, Pakistan
The Haashar Foundation of the Netherlands supports victims of the earthquake of 8 October 2005 in Northern Pakistan. read more...

Teacher Training, Hugo van Lawick Foundation
October 2008
Ido Eco Community, Tanzania
Hugo van Lawick devoted his life to observing and capturing nature. He was married to Jane Goodall and is a legend in Tanzania. The foundation read more...

Capella Frisiae in concert
October 2008
Christmas concerts Händel and Purcell, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Emmen
Capella Frisiae is a professional chamber choir which is well-known in the North of the Netherlands. At the read more...

One of the Van Gogh letters
October 2008
Vincent van Gogh: the artist and his letters
After years of of intensive research, Vincent van Gogh’s letters will be published in a 'definitive version': in five bound volumes with high-quality reproductions of all 2,000 works of art referred to in the letters read more...

Students at work in the Vocational Training Centre in Nyakabiga, Burundi
October 2008
Improvement of vocational training in Nyakabiga, Burundi
SOS Children's Villages is particularly known for the special 'villages' they have built in more than 100 countries, where orphans can read more...

Pupils in Balochistan, Pakistan
October 2008
Improvement of education for 1,500 children in Balochistan, Pakistan
This Save the Children project will, among other things, provide ten schools with educational materials, trainings for teachers, read more...

Rainbow Home, Calcutta
October 2008
Education for 250 street children in Calcutta, India, 2007-2009
A so-called 'Rainbow Home' is being realized in the Loreto Sealdah Day School in Calcutta. It accommodates 250 street children, and provides them with food, education, read more...

NedPhO GO! Community Concerts
October 2008
Main Supporter of the Community Concerts of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
To make classical music more easily accessible to everyone, at least 30 concerts a year are played at unexpected venues for an audience that read more...

students of the computer courses 2008
October 2008
Computer lessons, Philippines
Zone One Tondo Organisation (ZOTO) is a popular movement which helps poor people of the Philippines aged 10 to 24, with education as well as read more...

Project Overview on World Map

July 2008

Jan van Scorel, Maria Magdelena, approx. 1530
July 2008
Main Supporter Retrospective Exhibition Jan van Scorel
Jan van Scorel was one of the first Dutch painters to practice the new Renaissance style of painting. The Centraal Museum of Utrecht read more...

SmartKids in Training in Ghana
July 2008
Grants for Talented Underprivileged Children, Ghana
The SmartKids Foundation helps talented underprivileged children in Ghana to go to a reputable secondary school. The children are read more...

IDEAL - Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy
July 2008
Main Supporter IDEAL consortium (Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy) 2008-2010
This consortium of thirty Leprosy research groups will develop immunological tests in the coming years read more...

Haaglanden Chamber Music Festival
July 2008
Haaglanden Chamber Music Festival
Haaglanden Chamber Music Festival explicitly aims to interest also the younger generation in chamber music. In 2008 the festival read more...

Amsterdamse Cello Biënnale, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
July 2008
The Amsterdam Cello Biennale 2008
This two-yearly international cello festival offers specialist performances, but is at the same time directed at a broad audience from all over the Netherlands, presenting easily accessible activities and cello concerts read more...

Students under Training
July 2008
Vocational Programme Organic Food Production, Sanka, Ghana
The Bebo Bakery Foundation sets up a training centre for biological food production in Sanka, Ghana. 20 young women are trained to read more...

A Basic Child Development, Kameroen
July 2008
Teacher Training Underprivileged Youth, Manyu Division, Cameroon
The remote province of Manyu Division in Cameroon has an urgent lack of qualified teachers. The ABCD Foundation pays for the tuition of underprivileged read more...

Bamenda High Mountains, Cameroon
July 2008
Community Forest, Bamenda High Mountains, Cameroon, 2008-2010
ANCO introduces and stimulates sustainable agriculture and other types of sustainable sources of income read more...

Wereld Natuur Fonds
July 2008
The Coral Triangle Initiative
There is no place on earth that is home to such great biodiversity as the coral triangle. The Turing Foundation contributes € 3,000,000 to read more...

Kianjau Primary School
July 2008
Educational/Food Programme for 1180 children of Several Primary Schools in Thika, Kenya
The Macheo Children’s Centre in Thika, Kenya supports several primary schools by providing read more...

Lesson by Ex-Spinal Cord Lesion Patient in Bangladesh
July 2008
Construction Primary School and Teacher Training College Chittachong, Bangladesh
GlobalCare4All retrains spinal cord lesion patients to become teachers - a profession they are still able to practise - thereby meeting an enormous need. 130 children read more...

Luc Tuymans,  Die Diagnostische Blick , 1996
July 2008
Contemporary Art Exhibition: Not Normal
The manifestation Not Normal - Difference on Display is centred on an international visual art exhibition displaying paintings by Marlene Dumas, Louise Bourgeois, Luc Tuymans, Marc Quinn read more...

Vincent van Gogh, a Life in Paintings
July 2008
Music Theatre Vincent van Gogh, a Life in Paintings
The most recent music theatre production by Frank Groothof shows the life of Van Gogh, accompanied by music from contemporaries of Van Gogh - like Mendelssohn, Satie, Fauré read more...

an earlier project by the Le Pont Foundation in Batoto
July 2008
Construction of a Primary School in Dangbo, Benin
The Le Pont Foundation constructs schools in Benin that are provided with teachers by the government and are run on parental contributions. In 2008 a new primary school for 100 children read more...

Books for Tokokoe, Ghana
July 2008
School Books for Developing Countries
The Read to Grow Foundation collects second-hand recreational and school books and sends them to village schools in developing countries read more...

The Hunger Project, Burkina Faso
July 2008
Sustainable Agricultural Programmes, Burkina Faso
In Burkina Faso, the Hunger Project is working on the improvement of sustainable agricultural methods, the protection of affected parcels of forest, the read more...

Centre for Nursery Development and Eru Propagation (CENDEP)
July 2008
Restoration of Mountain Forests by Introduction of Analogue Forestry, Bamenda High Mountains, Cameroon, 2008-2010
The high mountains of Bamenda are sometimes referred to as the storehouse of Cameroon read more...

Shalom Centre, Katature, Windhoek, Namibia
July 2008
Education for Aids Orphans and Street Children in Katutura, Namibia
Stichting Pappa ensures that a group of 80 AIDS orphans and street children in Windhoek can go to school read more...

memorable moments
July 2008
Classical Music Performances for Small Children, Utrecht
The MEMO Foundation puts small children - who are still fully receptive - into contact with live classical music. This year, MEMO plans read more...

IUCN Project Sustainable Agriculture
July 2008
Sustainable Cocoa Production Eastern and Ashanti Region, Ghana, 2008-2010
As in many other countries, the production of cocoa leads to serious deforestation and forest degradation in Ghana read more...

Stichting Weeshuis Sri Lanka
July 2008
Educational Programme for Orphanage, Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka
The Sri Lanka Orphanage Foundation constructs and develops an orphanage in Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka for 300 orphans. Many of them read more...

Project Overview on World Map

May 2008

The first ride of the 'Turingcar', 1 october 2008
May 2008
Turing Car for the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum
A special ‘Turing Car’ will transport children from Rotterdam and surroundings to and from the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum free of charge. What’s more, each read more...

The first three new classrooms under construction
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...

Leprosy patients in the Kien Klean revalidation centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
May 2008
Field Projects Leprosy Control in Cambodia
The Leprosy Foundation works together with the CIOMAL organisation on Leprosy control in Cambodia. The quality of diagnostics is a read more...

Chamber Opera 'The Barber of Seville’ by the NBE
May 2008
Rossini's Opera Il Turco In Italia, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble
The ‘Nederlands Blazers Ensemble (NBE)’ has created a 'new' opera genre - the chamber opera – suitable to be performed at all kinds of locations. The music is well-accessible for read more...

Vocational training for children in Cameroon
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...

Wouter van Bemmel's ‘Persweeën’: piece of music for printing press and orchestra
May 2008
Wouter van Bemmel "Persweeën"
The sound of printing presses running and the Monotype pouring machine form the basis of this piece of music by Wouter van Bemmel. The composition will read more...

'Ik en de Koningin' by the Max Tak Orchestra
May 2008
Music Theatre "Ik en de Koningin", Max Tak
Children who have never before seen an orchestra perform live, and have no knowledge of classical music, can in this show read more...

Timbuktu region, Mali
May 2008
Preservation of Natural Resources, Timbuktu, Mali, 2008-2010
Because of years of draught and a fast population growth, the natural vegetation of the Timbuktu region is under pressure. Because of this read more...

Leprosy Foundation, Laos, 2008
May 2008
Field Projects Leprosy Control in Laos
In Laos leprosy occurs mostly among minorities that are hard to reach. Mutilations are often severe and irreparable if the read more...

De Noorderkerk, Amsterdam
May 2008
Noorderkerk Concerts: Marketplace for Music
The Noorderkerk Concerts Foundation each year performs a series of 30 to 35 short, easily accessible concerts of high quality in an informal atmosphere. read more...

Presentation of the Golden Albatros NK Poetry Slam
May 2008
Poetry Circus
The Poetry Circus organises literature and poetry performances for a young, new and varied audience, such as the Poetry Slam. The combination of experienced poets and new talent turns out to be a great success. read more...

Informal Skills Training Programma, Kenia
May 2008
Informal Skills Training Program, Nairobi, Kenya, 2008-2010
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...

UAF dimplomas 2008
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...

Music Registrations of previous Delft Chamber Music Festivals
May 2008
Delft Chamber Music Festival
The Delft Chamber Music Festival has been organising performances of chamber music in the summer months for over 20 years. Every year, around 6,000 music lovers visit read more...

Ricciotti plays in a hospital
May 2008
Main supporter of the Ricciotti Ensemble 2007-2009
The Ricciotti Ensemble consists of 40 idealistic students who give 100 concerts a year at venues such as care homes, prisons, schools and asylum centres, for people who hardly ever read more...

The new school buildings in Yatenga
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...

IBISS
May 2008
Education in the Slum Area 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...

Project Overview on World Map

February 2008

PrivaServe Macha
February 2008
Construction Macha Innovative Community School, Macha, Zambia
PrivaServe increases the independence and autonomy of the rural population in developing countries. read more...

A special poetry issue of De Gids
February 2008
Adoption poetry section and special poetry issues of De Gids
The Dutch cultural and literary magazine read more...

Osvaldo Golijov's swinging success at the Holland Festival
February 2008
Holland Festival 2008: La Pasion segun San Marcos
International art critics have called it "the first masterpiece of the 21st century". In this swinging, large choral work, the Argentinean composer read more...

Pupils at the URDT Girls School (Uganda) learning agricultural techniques
February 2008
Support for URDT Girls School, Kibaale, Uganda
The Ugandan URDT trains people in the district of Kibaale, Uganda, who have to live on less than $1 per day. The URDT Girls School offers training read more...

Young Africa Skills Center, Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
February 2008
Young Africa Skills Center, Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
Young Africa offers support in the education of underprivileged young people between 15 and 25 years of age. Repro-ducible model projects read more...

the first two anthologies: november 2008
February 2008
Four-year cycle of poetry anthologies
Twelve beautifully printed hardcover anthologies will be published in the coming four years. Featuring the very best poems by excellent Dutch poets presented by well-known read more...

Classical Music Evenings in the Vondelpark
February 2008
Free classical Music Evenings in the Vondelpark 2008-2010
On Thursday Summer nights, renowned music ensembles render free classical music in the Amsterdam Vondelpark Openluchttheater. In 2008 read more...

CLASSWorks program, Tanzania, Viafrica
February 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...

support for Kamitei
February 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...

Alfred Schaffer in the new Kröller-Müller Amphitheater (Zwoele Zomeravond 7-7-2007)
February 2008
The 'Zwoele Zomeravonden' of the Kröller-Müller Museum
The Kröller-Müller Museum is famous for its collection and its sculpture garden. To increase the interest in the collection and reach new audiences read more...

Computer Science, Doganovo, Bulgaria
February 2008
Teaching programmes in children's homes, Doganovo and Roman, Bulgaria, 2007-2009
The Foundation Kindertehuizen Bulgarije supports five children's homes near Sofia, where 400 children read more...

Project Overview on World Map

November 2007

sustainable agricultural projects in Africa
November 2007
€ 1.000.000,- for sustainable IUCN agricultural projects in Africa
After the realization of several successful projects within the Small Grants Programme of IUCN Nederland, the Turing Foundation has decided read more...

Students at work in the Vocational Training Centre in Nyakabiga, Burundi
November 2007
Improvement of vocational training in Nyakabiga, Burundi
SOS Children's Villages is particularly known for the special 'villages' they have built in more than 100 countries, where orphans can read more...

New school books arriving in Mae Sariang
November 2007
Support for the schools in North-West Thailand
The Samsara Foundation organises concrete and small-scaled projects for the improvement of education in North-West Thailand, where 25,000 underprivileged children read more...

 Portrait of an emissary from the kingdom of Congo,  probably Don Miguel de Castro , ca 1645, attributed to Albert Eckhout.
November 2007
Main supporter of 'Back to Zeeland', Zeeuws Museum
In the first large Summer exhibition at the renewed Zeeuws Museum, important showpieces from read more...

Poetry Week - First Love
November 2007
De Week van de Poëzie 2008 ('First Love')
At least 60 poetry events are taking place in April 2008, organised by libraries, book shops, publishers and read more...

Thanks to a prosthesis, these children can now go to school
November 2007
Educational projects Liliane Foundation 2008-2009
The Liliane Foundation provides direct, small-scale and tailor-made help to handicapped children in read more...

Renovating the Milalani Primary School, Msambweni
November 2007
Building and Renovating the Milalani Primary School, Msambweni, Kenya
The Twiga Foundation focuses on education in Msambweni, Kenya and contributes to quality read more...

Residentie Bach Choir and Residentie Orchestra
November 2007
Matthew Passion translated/adapted by Jan Rot
The Residentie Bach Ensembles offer a varied concert programme of classical music in 2008 and 2009, aiming to reach as many young people read more...

Frank Groothof plays  Porgy & Bess
November 2007
Family show of Gershwin's Porgy & Bess
With his opera arrangements, Frank Groothof succeeds time and again in enthusing and exciting large groups of children read more...

World Orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales
November 2007
Concerts of the World Orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales
Under the inspiring baton of the young Spanish conductor Josep Vincent, the World Orchestra will give four concerts in January 2008 read more...

Batik, Tie & Dye in the Kuloro Skills Centre
November 2007
Kuloro Skills Training Centre, Gambia
Net4Kids funds a training centre in Kuloro, Gambia, which provides training for 100 young people in skills such as batik, tie & dye, sewing, soap making, preparing food read more...

Jou Willen Is Je Missen
November 2007
Poetry anthology 'Jou Willen Is Je Missen'
The thematic poetry anthology 'Jou Willen Is Je Missen' of Dutch poems about love is published read more...

September 2007

Fishing village, Murciellagos Bay, The Philippines
September 2007
Ecosystem Management for the Murciellagos Bay, Philippines
Murciellagos Bay is a breeding ground of important and diverse ecosystems, coral reefs, mangrove forests, sea grass beds and rare read more...

The new school in Mali, donated by the Turing Foundation
September 2007
Building of a school in Kenenkou, Mali
The Dutch Mali Foundation supports the population in the vicinity of Bamako in Mali. One of its projects is the building of a secondary school with a capacity of 200 to 300 pupils read more...

Leprosy Research - Role of Newly Defined T-Cells
September 2007
LUMC research "Immunopathology of leprosy: dissecting mechanisms of immune-mediated tissue damage in leprosy, and identification of new targets for intervention"
De Lepra bacterie heeft een hoge affiniteit voor Schwann cellen – cellen die een beschermende laag vormen om perifere zenuwen. read more...

Rainbow Home, Calcutta
September 2007
Education for 250 street children in Calcutta, India, 2007-2009
A so-called 'Rainbow Home' is being realized in the Loreto Sealdah Day School in Calcutta. It accommodates 250 street children, and provides them with food, education, read more...

Poetry Day 2008
September 2007
Main supporter Gedichtendag 2008
Poem Day brings poetry to the notice on a national level. 300 poetry activities are taking place on or around 31 January. Newspapers will publish poems, poetry will be read on radio and TV read more...

View on Lamit Bay, The Philippines
September 2007
Sustainable management of the biodiversity in the Lamit Bay, Philippines
The biodiversity of the Lamit Bay is threatened by commercial overfishing and dynamite fishing. The local community will cooperate to create a network of read more...

Art room for vocational training Architecture/Engineering, Moengo, Surinam, Juli 2008
September 2007
Practical Textile Training Room and Art Room for Architecture/Engineering, Moengo, Surinam
The STOOM Foundation supports the improvement of the Barronschool, which is the sole vocational school in Moengo. At this moment, the 450 pupils lack the classrooms and read more...

Save The Children Worldwide
September 2007
Improvement of education for 1,500 children in Balochistan, Pakistan
This Save the Children project will, among other things, provide ten schools with educational materials, trainings for teachers, read more...

July 2007

Wereld Natuur Fonds
July 2007
The Coral Triangle Initiative
There is no place on earth that is home to such great biodiversity as the coral triangle. The Turing Foundation contributes € 3,000,000 to read more...

The new primary school building in Yatenga
July 2007
Educational institute in Yatenga, Burkina Faso, 2007-2009
The WOL Foundation is building an educational institute in Burkina Faso to further develop vocational training for rural youngsters in the region, and to prevent a relapse into illiteracy read more...

Sustainable vegetable growing
July 2007
Sustainable management of wetlands around Lake Doro in Mali
9,500 people live in eight villages in the tidal area within the project region in South-West Mali: farmers, cattle-breeding nomads and fishermen. These people read more...

Dutch Primitives: Painters from the Late Middle Ages
July 2007
Main supporter Dutch Primitives: Painters from the Late Middle Ages, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
For the first time in over fifty years, there will be an exhibition on the origin of Dutch painting in read more...

The school in Togo
July 2007
Enlargement of a school in Lomé, Togo
The Een School in Togo Foundation built a private 'model school' for 300 children in Lomé, Togo. The school offers education for children between 6 and read more...

Dungonab Bay Marine National Park
July 2007
Dungonab Bay and Sanganeb Atoll Marine National Park, Sudan
African Parks helps the Sudanese government in managing, conserving and restoring two national parks. The Turing Foundation contributes 1 million euros to the Sanganeb Atoll Marine read more...

The Grachtenfestival Amsterdam
July 2007
The 10th Grachtenfestival of Amsterdam
During this yearly music festival, performances of classical music in special locations in the historic town centre of Amsterdam and special concerts in read more...

CLASSWorks program, Tanzania, Viafrica
July 2007
ICT curriculum for secondary schools in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda
Viafrica helps secondary schools to provide an ICT curriculum. The schools must themselves take the initiative, for example by read more...

Missahoe forest reserve, Togo
July 2007
Sustainable agriculture/forestry in the Missahoe Forest Reserve, Togo
The IUCN is recovering part of a rainforest that has been seriously impoverished due to human activities, but still houses read more...

Sustainable small-scaled agriculture
July 2007
Sustainable small-scaled agriculture in Borgou, Benin
In Benin, the IUCN and the CRFA work on alternative and improved agricultural systems around the Antisua community forest read more...

Robert Falk,  Portrait of a Woman in a Red Dress , 1918. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
July 2007
Main supporter Unknown Modern Masterpieces from Moscow, Jewish Historical Museum
The Jewish Historical Museum presents unknown masterpieces by Russian-Jewish artists from the period 1910-1940. The Turing Foundation is the main sponsor of the exhibition read more...

Project Overview on World Map

May 2007

Read to Grow
May 2007
School books for developing countries
The Read to Grow Foundation collects second-hand recreational books and textbooks and sends them to village schools in developing countries where read more...

IBISS
May 2007
Education in the slum of Vila Cruzeiro in Rio de Janeiro
The IBISS Foundation supports the most marginalized groups of Brazil. In the slums, children are hardly stimulated to go to school read more...

NedPhO GO! Community Concerts
May 2007
Main Supporter of the Community Concerts of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
To make classical music more easily accessible to everyone, at least 30 concerts a year are played at unexpected venues for an audience that read more...

Opera Khadish
May 2007
Opera 'Khadish/Erwartung'
A group of young and idealistic musicians produces a 'true contemporary opera', an artistic whole, composed of read more...

March 2007

 Venus and Cupid in the forge of Vulcan   (Jan Salomonsz de Bray, 1683, 213 x 208 cm)
March 2007
Main supporter 'The De Bray Family', Frans Hals Museum
In 2008, the Frans Hals Museum of Haarlem is setting up a special exhibition on the painters of the seventeenth century De Bray family. The Turing Foundation will be the main read more...

Free meals at the Kianjau Primary School
March 2007
Education and food programme for 550 children of the Kianjau Primary School, Kenya, 2007-2009
The Macheo Children’s Centre in Thika, Kenya runs a children's home, and supports the nearby Primary School. Everyone in the slum of Kiandutu can read more...

Shalom Centre, Katature, Windhoek, Namibia
March 2007
Education for AIDS orphans and street children in Katutura, Namibia
Stichting Pappa ensures that a group of 100 AIDS orphans and street children in Katutura, Windhoek can go to school. Tuition, uniforms and read more...

Poetry International Festival
March 2007
38th edition of Poetry International Festival
The theme for 2007 of this leading international poetry festival is the relation between poetry, insanity and melancholy. Several international read more...

Classical music in the Amsterdam Vondelpark
March 2007
Free classical music in the Vondelpark 2007
On eleven Thursday nights in June, July and August, free classical music concerts are played by renowned music ensembles at the central park of read more...

Building the PDF Campus
March 2007
Vocational training campus, Pakistan
The Pakistan Development Foundation offers easily accessible vocational education and training, and provides assistance in starting read more...

Zone One staff test the freshly installed computers
March 2007
Computer lessons, Philippines
Zone One Tondo Organisation (ZOTO) is a popular movement which helps poor people of the Philippines aged 10 to 24, with education as well as read more...

ToBe Educational Resource Centre, Ghana
March 2007
Educational Resource Centre, Komenda, Ghana
ToBe Worldwide zet Educational Resource Centres op in achtergebleven gebieden in Ghana. De centra bieden kinderen van 6 to 15 jaar read more...

Era la notte
March 2007
Holland Festival 2007: Era La Notte
During the 60th edition of the Holland Festival, soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci sings early Italian baroque music. This concert read more...

Computer Science, Doganovo, Bulgaria
March 2007
Teaching programmes in children's homes, Doganovo and Roman, Bulgaria
De Stichting Kindertehuizen Bulgarije steunt vijf kindertehuizen in de omgeving van Sofia waar 400 kinderen read more...

Vocational training in woodworking, Cape Coast, Ghana
March 2007
Vocational Training in Woodworking, Cape Coast, Ghana
De Stichting Bebo Bakery wil wees- en zwerfkinderen in Ghana, na een goede basisopleiding, een vak leren in kleine, zelfstandige ondernemingen read more...

Leprosy Foundation, Nigeria, 2007
March 2007
Projects to cure leprosy 2007
The Dutch Leprosy Foundation invests all over the world in projects that help diagnose and cure people who suffer from leprosy read more...

February 2007

Milou Halbesma presents €1,000,000 to Kommer Braber, manager of the Leprosy Foundation
€1.000.000,- for the Dutch Leprosy Foundation
The Dutch Leprosy Foundation has devoted itself for forty years to creating a world in which the permanent suffering, caused by leprosy, is no longer existent read more...

Opening of the Maasschool in Atjeh, 30 August 2007
Primary school with teachers' accommodation in Idi, Atjeh
De Stichting Zicht Op Toekomst richt zich op scholenbouw in Indonesië, in gebieden waar de infrastructuur verwoest is. In Atjeh, waar de tsunami van 2002 read more...

Stichting Weeshuis Sri Lanka
Educational programme for an orphanage, Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka
De Stichting Weeshuis Sri Lanka bouwt en exploiteert een weeshuis in Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka voor 300 weeskinderen. Velen daarvan read more...

The Atlas Ensemble brings together instruments from different cultures
The Atlas Ensemble
30 musicians from China, Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe are united in this ensemble and bring together instruments which originate from a common 'ancestor', but read more...

key facilities, Tanguiéta, Northern Benin
Education for children and key facilities, Tanguiéta, Northern Benin
The Liliane Foundation provides direct, small-scale and tailor-made help to handicapped children and young people in developing countries. In many cases, read more...

Prinses Christina Concours Classic Express
'Classic Express' of the Princess Christina Concours
Het Prinses Christina Concours wil de jeugd kennis laten maken met klassieke en jazz muziek read more...

The new school in Lombok
School for street children in Lombok, Indonesia
De stichting Peduli Anak bouwt drie opvanghuizen en een school voor straatkinderen op het eiland Lombok in Indonesië. 144 straatkinderen read more...

Poetry Week - Birth
Main supporter of De Week van de Poëzie 2007 - 'Birth'
Many large and sparkling, or instead modest poetry activities and events related to poetry from all over the Netherlands come together in this 'Poetry Week'. At least 60 events read more...

Ricciotti plays for prisoners
Main supporter of the Ricciotti Ensemble 2007-2009
consists of 40 idealistic students who give 100 concerts a year at venues such as care homes, prisons, schools and asylum centres, for people who read more...

UAF
Foundation for Refugee Students UAF 2007-2009
The UAF supports higher educated refugees and asylum seekers in their studies and in finding a job by financial support, advice and coaching. read more...

Het Eerste Wonder (The First Miracle)
Poetry anthology 'The First Miracle'
The thematic poetry anthology 'Het Eerste Wonder' of Dutch poems about birth is published read more...

The 'Ongera Ubumenye' educational project
Educational tools for 42 primary schools, Rwanda
To improve the quality of and participation (of especially girls) in education, and to improve quality by teacher refresher courses read more...

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra plays 'Peter and the Wolf' for children
Children's Concert of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
The RCO gives a children's concert that is linked to an educational project which enables primary school children in Amsterdam to enjoy read more...

Kebba Jarju Memorial Nursery
Teaching material for primary school in Gambia
The Kebba Jarju Memorial Nursery is a primary school in a village in the Kombo North district of Gambia. It has over 120 pupils read more...

The Belvedere Museum
Extension opening hours Museum Belvédère 2007-2009
Museum Belvédère is het eerste museum voor moderne en hedendaagse kunst in Friesland read more...

Reizend Muziekgezelschap
25th anniversary of the Amsterdam Chamber Music Society
Het Reizend Muziekgezelschap is een kamermuziekgezelschap met een wisselende bezetting van internationale topmuzikanten read more...




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