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 Welcome to the Turing Foundation
The Turing Foundation is a private charity based in the Netherlands.
The Turing Foundation spends its funds on behalf of four goals: The Turing Foundation was established in 2006 by Pieter Geelen, using the wealth he acquired as co-founder of TomTom NV, a company listed at the Dutch stock exchange.
Annual Report 2007 available


Most recent projects: 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...

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...


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