The Turing Foundation

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

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

Our policy aims to increase the availability of quality education in selected developing countries. We focus on primary education (from the age of 6), secondary education, and (as a specific area of interest) vocational training. More information can be found in our application procedures for education.

	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. Students at work in the Vocational Training Centre in Nyakabiga, Burundi
	Vocational training in Nairobi, Kenia The mission of ChildsLife International is to improve the lives of needy children in developing countries. On the outskirts of the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, the foundation is establishing a vocational training centre for 120 pupils (offering masonry, carpentry, dressmaking, hair dressing and office administration programmes). The Turing Foundation finances half (€ 40.000) of the construction costs of this training centre, which will consist of four classrooms, four practical training rooms, an office and a shop. see also: 40.000 euro voor ‘Vocational Centre Kibera’ (Childslife) ChildsLife Vocational Training Centre Nairobi, Kenya
	Construction of a primary school in Isitu, Tanzania Connect International supports small-scale sustainable self-help projects of local organisations in developing countries. The foundation is establishing a school in the Tanzanian village of Isitu, including a water supply, a vegetable garden and a tree plantation. In addition, it launches a three-year programme to improve the operation of the school and the quality of education. The Turing Foundation finances two thirds of the construction and the interior of the school and the programme cost up to and including 2010 (€ 30,000 in total). Tanzanian villagers building a new school
	Construction of a primary school in N'goro, Mali The Dutch Mali Foundation and its permanent Malinese partner Solisa together support the community living in the hills around the town of Bamako in Mali, and try to set up institutions of primary education, for both boys and girls. On an earlier occasion, the Turing Foundation already financed the construction of a school by this foundation. This time, the Mali Foundation constructs a primary school for 300 pupils in the village of N'goro, Mali, in accordance with the concept used before (including three classrooms, school furniture, teaching materials, latrines and a sports field). By donating € 25,000, the Turing Foundation finances approximately two thirds of the costs of construction and equipment for this new school. Stichting Mali
	Tools for Ghana 500 volunteers of the Gered Gereedschap Foundation collect and recycle used tools and send them on request to development projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Every year, the foundation supplies over 100,000 tools and 1,000 sewing machines to the Third World. In this way, thousands of people are given the opportunity to learn a trade and to earn an income. The Turing Foundation finances the full project costs (€ 29,000) for collecting, recycling, packaging and sending tools and sewing machines to eight organisations and training centres in Ghana. The project entails one container shipment that is planned for March 2009. An Earlier Shipment of Rescued and Refurbished Tools for the Ghana Young Artisan Movement
	Building a primary school in Sukuma, Laos Child's Dream helps underprivileged children in the Mekong region by improving the social circumstances and the level of education. In the village of Sukuma, Laos, the foundation takes care of the construction and equipping of a primary school. The school will have twelve classrooms to house its 776 pupils and 22 teachers. The teachers will be trained in modern teaching methods. By donating € 39,000, the Turing Foundation finances half of the construction and interior costs of the new school. Khon Kaen Primary School, Laos
	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 education, vocational training and HIV/Aids education. In Kenya, the foundation offers vocational training programmes to 325 underprivileged children from slums and disadvantaged areas in Mai Mahiu, located in one of the poorest and most restless parts of Kenya, near the town of Nakuru. The programmes offered are one-year courses in the field of carpentry, leather-working, clothes making, external care and computer skills. After their training, pupils are assisted in finding a job or in launching a business. The Turing Foundation contributes € 40,000 to the project costs for 2008. Vocational carpentry training - Red een Kind Foundation, Kenya
	School Library en Vocational Training Workshop, Wajir, Kenya The Stichting Welzijn Wajir (Welfare Wajir Foundation) supports the poorest community in and around Wajir (North-Eastern Kenya), especially in the field of education, health care, food supply and welfare. With respect to education, the foundation particularly focuses on the construction of schools and, recently, also on training. The Turing Foundation finances the complete construction and equipping of the library of the Furaha Mixed Day Secondary School (€ 20,000) and the renovation of a workshop for vocational education of the Wajir High School (€ 11,000). Furaha Mixed Day Secondary School, Wajir, Kenya
	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. The School Support Programme helps children in the area to return to school, by paying for tuition fees, school uniforms and teaching materials as long as their parents are still dealing with the financial consequences of the earthquake. The project offers support to 2,000 pupils between 6 and 15 years of age in ten different schools. Moreover, the project offers training programmes for teachers, environmental education and helps to establish parents' councils. The Turing Foundation finances approximately two thirds (€ 40,000) of the running costs in 2008 and 2009. Stichting Haashar, Pakistan
	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 2009. Pupils in Balochistan, Pakistan
	Education for 250 street children in Calcutta, India, 2007-2009 The Partnership Foundation is devoted to providing accommodation for street children in India in existing school buildings. The Loreto Sealdah Day School in Calcutta serves as a model for this strategy. It is a high-quality private school for 1,500 girls. A so-called 'Rainbow Home' is being created in this school. The home can accommodate 250 street children and provides them with food, education, medical care and loving support. During the coming three years, the Turing Foundation covers the full educational costs of the project, amounting to € 162,500. Rainbow Home, Calcutta
	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. The Turing Foundation paid for the computer equipment, and finances the 2008 and 2009 computer courses for 300 young people organized by ZOTO (€ 36,000 in total). students of the computer courses 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 (A Basic Child Development) pays for the tuition fees of underprivileged children who are talented and who have a desire to become teachers. After having finished the teacher training with the support of ABCD, students promise to teach in their home province for a period of at least three years. The Turing Foundation contributes € 27,500 to the training of teachers in the coming years. A Basic Child Development, Kameroen
	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 recommended by a growing national network of teachers and are selected on the basis of their willingness to contribute to the development of their own country in their later lives. During the coming three years, the Turing Foundation will invest € 10,000 on a yearly basis in the growth of the number of ‘SmartKids’. SmartKids in Training in Ghana
	Construction Primary School and Teacher Training College Chittachong, Bangladesh The GlobalCare4All Foundation supports spinal cord lesion patients in a rehabilitation centre in Chittachong, Bangladesh. Moreover, ex-patients are trained to become teachers. They thereby meet an urgent need and are able to build a life. The pilot project has been accomplished successfully. The foundation now plans to construct and equip a retraining centre and primary school, offering retraining programmes and education free of charge to 130 children. The Turing Foundation finances 66% of the project cost for 2008 (€ 40,000) and 33% (€ 20,000) of the cost for 2009. Lesson by Ex-Spinal Cord Lesion Patient in Bangladesh
	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. The success of the concept on the long run fully depends on financial contributions by parents and their assistance in the construction process. In 2008 the foundation constructs a new primary school in Dangbo for 100 children. The Turing Foundation donates € 11,500 towards the construction of this school. an earlier project by the Le Pont Foundation in Batoto
	Vocational Programme Organic Food Production, Sanka, Ghana The Bebo Bakery Foundation helps youth in Ghana to learn a profession, after a solid primary education, in small, independent, profitable businesses of different kinds. The foundation is now setting up a training centre in Sanka for organic food production in market gardening and fruit farming. A poultry farm is also set up, which will enable the training centre to be self-supportive. To begin with, 20 young women from the local relief centre are trained. The Turing Foundation donates € 25,000, which amounts to 50% of the total project cost up until 2012. Students under Training
	Educational/Food Programme for 1180 children of Several Primary Schools in Thika, Kenya One of the projects of the Macheo Children’s Centre is to develop a children’s home in Thika. Apart from that, it supports the nearby Kianjau Primary School. Everyone in the slum of Kiandutu can attend this school, as long as they wear the prescribed school uniform. However, not every one can afford this uniform, or even afford to come to school every day. A school day often means a day without a meal. This project therefore offers uniforms to all the children and enables the school to cook a simple, free meal for all its pupils every day. The Turing Foundation already supported this education/food programme of the Kianjau Primary School in 2007. In 2008, the programme will be extended to 1180 pupils of the Kianjau and Athena Primary Schools in Thika. The Turing Foundation contributes € 40,000 to the project for these two schools in 2008. Furthermore, the Turing Foundation contributes € 12,000 to the building of vegetable greenhouses, allowing the school to become independent of funding in the future. Kianjau Primary School
	Education for Aids Orphans and Street Children in Katutura, Namibia Stichting Pappa operates through the Child Development Foundation and ensures that a group of 80 AIDS orphans and street children in Katutura, Windhoek (the largest township of Namibia) are educated at a school in their vicinity or at the school that was established by the foundation itself in 2007. The Turing Foundation has supported this project since 2007 and pays half of the educational cost in 2008 and 2009 (€ 10,000 a year). Shalom Centre, Katature, Windhoek, Namibia
	Educational Programme for Orphanage, Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka The Stichting Weeshuis Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka Orphanage Foundation) constructs and develops an orphanage in Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka for 300 orphans. Many of them became orphans as a direct consequence of the tsunami in 2004. The foundation also offers an educational programme for these children and 350 others who live in the vicinity of the orphanage. The programme aims to offer the children an education that suits the market and the country’s needs. At the end of 2008, the orphanage can house 200 children. In 2007, the Turing Foundation took on the cost of these educational activities, and will continue to do so in 2008 and 2009 (€ 50,000 a year). Stichting Weeshuis Sri Lanka
	School Books for Developing Countries The Read to Grow Foundation collects English language recreational and school books 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 in 2007 and 2008 to propagate the Read to Grow concept in other European countries. see also: Turing Foundation sponsort Read to Grow voor 32.000 euro Books for Tokokoe, Ghana
	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, 2008-2010 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: Beroepsonderwijs in Burkina Faso weer een stap dichterbij Turing Foundation draagt 150.000 Euro bij aan bouw onderwijscomplex Nieuwsbrief uit Yatenga Grote sponsor voor project van stichting WOL 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. UAF dimplomas 2008
	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. Pupils at the URDT Girls School (Uganda) learning agricultural techniques
	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). support for Kamitei
	*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
	Teaching programmes in children's homes, Doganovo and Roman, Bulgaria, 2007-2009 The Stichting Kindertehuizen Bulgarije (Foundation for Children's Homes in Bulgaria) supports five children's homes in the vicinity of Sofia, housing 400 (mostly Roma) children in total. The foundation assists the children's homes in renovation projects and helps them to provide food, clothing, linen, medical care and education. In the years 2007 to 2009, the Turing Foundation donates a total of € 40,000 to educational programmes (for example in English, computer science, and sewing) for children and young people in the children's homes of Doganovo and Roman. Computer Science, Doganovo, Bulgaria
	Building and Renovating 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. Renovating the Milalani Primary School, Msambweni
	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 kunnen naar school dankzij Turing Foundation Thanks to a prosthesis, these children can now go to school
	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. Art room for vocational training Architecture/Engineering, Moengo, Surinam, Juli 2008
	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
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