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Digital education, Niger en Togo, 2020-2023
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: Other projects in Niger  Digitaal onderwijs, Guinée en Niger |
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Promoting Youth Employability, Dioïla, Mali, 2018-2019
PlanBØRNEfonden is a Danish organisation founded in 1972, which works in four fields in Mali: education, child health, income-generating activities and children's development. PlanBØRNEfonden wants to use this project to improve the employment opportunities of 200 young people in Dioïla. A total of 75 apprentices are doing vocational training for a qualification in, for example, making clothing, electronics or food processing, and 125 young people are doing the practical training course. The young people are learning the skills needed to start a business and make it successful. In addition, 30 trainers are receiving training to improve how they train young people and give them internships. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 98,000 towards this project (of which, € 49,000 in 2019).
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 A young baker in front of her oven |
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Vocational and entrepreneurial training for young people from the slums of Lome, Togo, 2017-2019
Y Care is the international relief and development agency of the YMCA youth organisation. Their strategy for 2020 is focused on the creation of jobs for young people in fifteen core countries, including Togo. Together with its local sister organisation YMCA Togo, Y Care is offering 280 young people a two-year vocational and skills training course at accredited workshops or an entrepreneurship course to increase their chance of employment and an income. This project is part of a larger programme which increases youth participation in government development courses and trains young people to manage disasters such as floods and fires in their neighbourhood. The Turing Foundation is contributing €142,000 towards this project, earmarked for the employment project, of which €43,000 in 2019.
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 Previous beneficiaries of the entrepreneurial programme, Lome, Togo |
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Improving the learning environment and job opportunities, Haho, Togo, 2017-2018
PlanBØRNEfonden is a Danish organisation which was founded in 1972 and operates in Togo, Mali, Cape Verde, Burkina Faso and Benin in four areas: education, child health, income generating activities and child development. In 2016-2017 the Turing Foundation supported PlanBØRNEfonden in a project that improved 150 young people's job opportunities in Haho, Togo. By continuing this project, PlanBØRNEfonden wants to give this opportunity to more young people in the artisanal sector. For example, 45 'new' artisans are being trained to better educate young people and offer them traineeships, 45 artisans who have already been trained will receive a follow-up course, and young people in 12 youth clubs will be given basic lessons in reading, writing and arithmetic. Combined with additional support after training, this increases these young people's chances of getting a job. The contribution for the period of one year has secured co-financing and gives PlanBØRNEfonden the time to find funding for after this project period. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 40,000 towards this project.
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Improving educational quality for young apprentices, Haho district, Togo, 2016
PlanBØRNEfonden (BF) has many years of experience in getting more young people into work in West Africa. BF aims to increase 150 apprentices' job opportunities in Togo by improving the learning environment and training in their trade. BF teaches artisans how to provide a good internship. In addition, extra lesson modules are being added in the third (internship) year. Together with further support after training, this increases these young people's chance of getting a job. The Turing Foundation is contributing €57,000 to this project (of which, €30,000 in 2016).
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Sustainable conservation and food security for 20 villages, Région Maritime, Togo, 2011-2014
The R.C. Het Maagdenhuis Foundation has been working with CREMA (Centre de Recherche et d'Essai de Modeles d'Autopromotion) in Togo since 2003. Now the project wants to start training 4,000 farmers in the very poor southeast of Togo how to use organic farming methods to improve the yield and storage of corn. On top of that, a 125-acre area will be reforested with a total of 125,000 trees and shrubs (macuna and cajanus cajan) that enrich the soil. The project facilitates extra capacity from CREMA itself and extra attention will be paid to land use by and land transfer to women. Eventually, nature will be restored and protected, and the life standard in 20 villages will be structurally improved. The Turing Foundation contributed € 33,000 to the project's pilotphase and will also finance the second phase based on those results. The Turing Foundation contributes € 55,000 to the second part of the project (€ 10.000 in 2014), with the R.C. Het Maagdenhuis Foundation as co-financer.
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 Sustainable conservation and food security, Région Maritime, Togo |
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Organic and fair trade cocoa production, Akebou, Togo, 2013-2015
This project from Progreso, the Agro Eco-Louis Bolk Instituut and AVSF wants to stimulate organic cocoa production and improve the lives of cocoa farmers in the Akebou district in Southwest Togo. In the pilot phase (October 2010-December 2011) and phase I (May-December 2012), 693 farmers were selected and trained in renewing plantations, improving plantation management, and stimulating agroforestry and the use of natural pesticides. The project wants to prepare the market for Fair Trade cocoa. In 2012, the Turing Foundation already supported this project by donating € 55,000 in order to reach more farmers: from 450 to 693 in phase I. In the 2013-2015 period, the Turing Foundation will contribute another € 100,000 (€ 50,000 of which will be donated in 2014) for the intensive follow-up supervision of the 693 farmers in phase II.
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 Extension of organic and fair trade cocoa production, Togo |
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Job placement programs for underprivileged women, Lomé, Togo, 2012-2014
The R.C. Maagdenhuis Foundation supports small-scale projects initiated by the local community in developing countries. There's a network of advisors on the spot to inform on the feasibility of the projects as well as monitor their development. Through local organization CAGED, the Maagdenhuis Foundation organizes job placement programs in Lomé for women with a technical expertise. For example, they'll be supported in finding a local job with good prospects for the future, or starting their own business in the field of technique. The women will receive extra technical training, and they will be taught commercial skills, entrepreneurship and how to do an interview. The Turing Foundation will donate a total of € 30,000 to the project.
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 Technical trainings, Togo, 2012-2014 |
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Technical vocational trainings, Lomé, Togo, 2012-2014
The R.C. Maagdenhuis Foundation supports small-scale projects that have been initiated by the local community in developing countries. There's a network of advisors on the spot to inform on the feasibility of the projects as well as monitor their development. Through the technical vocational training CEFOP, the Maagdenhuis Foundation supports talented, underprivileged teenagers from 14 years old who wouldn't be able to pay for the training otherwise. Upon graduation, they can start working right away. The Turing Foundation will donate a total of € 10,000 to this training program for underprivileged youths (€ 4.000 in 2014).
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 technische opleidingen, Togo |
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Technical school, Kara, Togo, 2013
SOS-Kinderdorpen helps orphans and abandoned children in developing countries find loving families to grow up with. Worldwide, SOS Kinderdorpen has set up 105 local vocational training centers where youths can work on becoming financially independent. To help Kara youth, the foundation has opened a technical school offering 3-year technical vocational trainings. Every teacher that’s hired will be receiving a week of extra training in pedagogy and other skills. The school can admit a total of 245 students. In 2013, the Turing Foundation will be donating € 30,000 to guarantee the batch of students of 2013.
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 Technical school in Kara, Togo 2013 |
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Education for 500 underprivileged children, Région Maritime, Togo, 2013
Belgian organization IDAY wants underprivileged children in Africa to have access to high-quality education. With the help of local organization Le Rhonier, IDAY wants to improve education in 15 villages, as well as make sure all children attend school, even those who are forced to live on the streets. Underprivileged children are placed in foster care (often with their own families). The foster families are granted a loan in kind, provided the children attend class. There are currently 450 children going to school who didn't before. At the same time, the quality of education at schools is being improved by investing in teaching material, and in the training and salaries of teachers. The Turing Foundation will be donating € 30,000 in 2013 towards the education of 450 underprivileged children. See also: IDAY: other projects  Educating underprivileged children in Togo, 2013-2016 |
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Development of organic and fair trade cocoa production, Togo, 2012
This Progreso and Agro Eco-Louis Bolk Institute project is aimed at promoting organic cocoa production and improving the living conditions of 650 farmers in Western Togo. During the project's pilot phase (October 2010 - December 2011) 450 farmers were selected and trained to produce organic, sustainable cocoa and were taught about agroforestry. In the first phase of the project (May 2012 - December 2012), these trainings will be continued and expanded to reach 650 farmers. On top of that, the organisations are working on strengthening the market for fair-trade cocoa. The Turing Foundation will be supporting the activities in the first phase of the project by contributing € 55.000 in 2012.
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Development of organic and fair trade cocoa production, Togo |
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Sustainable conservation and food security, Région Maritime, Togo 2010
Since 2003, the R.C. Maagdenhuis Foundation has been working with local organization CREMA (Centre de Recherche et d'Essai de Modeles d'Autopromotion). For this project, their joint goal is to train 4,000 farmers from the very poor southeast of Togo in organic farming to increase corn produce. Trees will be planted (velvet bean and pigeon pea) for soil enrichment, and the project will also provide a strengthening of CREMA's own capacity. This way, nature will be restored and protected, and the living standard of twenty villages will be structurally improved. The Turing Foundation will contribute € 33,000 to the project.
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Sustainable conservation and food security, Région Maritime, Togo 2010-2011 |
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Sustainable agriculture and forestry in the Missahoe Forest Reserve, Togo, 2010-2012
The local organisation Les Compagnons Ruraux works hard to recover the Missahoe forest reserve in Togo. Based on positive results of earlier forest recovery programmes, 7000 people of five villages will be involved in a project of 'analogous planting'. New plantings will have almost the same function as rain forests but will in part consist of economically interesting species, such as coffee, pepper trees and certain fruit trees. In the third phase of the project, which will last one more year, another 50,000 trees will be planted, 10 information campaigns will be launched, the production of cocoa - which has by now started - will be certified and 12 volunteers will be trained in forest fire fighting. In 2010, the Turing Foundation provides funding for this project via IUCN NL, donating € 44,000. Earlier, the Turing Foundation financed the construction of two schools in this area.
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 Nursery of economically interesting trees for analogous reforestation, Missahoe Forest Reserve, Togo |
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Restoration and protection of local ecosystems, Région des Savanes, Togo, 2009-2010
In the Région des Savanes in Northern Togo, a very poor region, the ecosystem is deteriorating at an alarming pace as a result of uncontrolled (over)exploitation of soil and wood (especially firewood). Animal species are becoming extinct and the forests no longer meet the needs of the people. Local organisation RAFIA (Recherche Appui et Formation aux Initiatives d'Auto Développement) assists rural and other communities in improving their living conditions, for example by the sustainable management of natural resources. The Turing Foundation donates € 44,000 towards a RAFIA project to construct four 'galeries forestières' and to educate people in sustainable agriculture techniques, using more varied and more productive crops, thus helping approximately 900 households in nine villages. The project will run until August 2010. See also: IUCN Nederland: other projects  Restoration and protection of local ecosystems, Région des Savanes, Togo |
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Construction and equipment of a school in Agome Anedi, Togo, 2009
Having collaborated with Les Compagnons Ruraux on nature conservation before, under the supervision of this Togolese organisation the Turing Foundation will help replace the self-built school in Agome Anedi by a new building comprising of three classrooms, a canteen and latrines. The school is also being provided with furnishings and educational materials. The Turing Foundation will cover all the costs (€44,000) that go toward building and furnishing the new school.
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 The old school building of Agome Anedi - no lessons during the rainy season |
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Construction of two schools in Efa and Sofiè, Togo, 2009
The R.C. Maagdenhuis Foundation supports locally initiated small-scale projects in developing countries. A network of local advisors provides recommendations on the projects' feasibility and monitors their progress. Collaborating with ARBES, a local organisation, and with parents and pupils closely involved the Foundation builds schools in rural areas. ARBES operates in the Agou prefecture near Kpalimé. By contributing met € 35.000 the Turing Foundation will finance half of the building costs of two schools in Efa and Sofié.
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Extension and furnishing of a school in Kuma Konda, Togo, 2009
Having collaborated with Les Compagnons Ruraux on nature conservation before, under the supervision of this Togolese organisation the Turing Foundation will help extend the school in Kuma Konda with additional classrooms, a canteen and latrines. The school is also being provided with educational materials. The Turing Foundation will finance all the costs (€27,000) that go toward building and furnishing the extension.
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 The school in Kuma Konda |
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Enlargement of a school in Lomé, Togo, 2007-2008
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.
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Sustainable agriculture and forestry in the Missahoe Forest Reserve, Togo, 2007-2009
In Togo, IUCN Nederland works together with the local organisation Les Compagnons Ruraux to recover part of the rainforest. This rainforest has been seriously impoverished due to human activities, but it still houses a very important biodiversity. Based on positive experiences in an earlier forest recovery programme, 7,000 people of five villages will be involved in a project of 'analogous planting'. This means that the new plantings will have almost the same function as the rainforest, but will in part consist of economically interesting species of trees, such as coffee, pepper tree and certain kinds of fruit trees. The Turing Foundation finances this project, which runs until July 2009 (€ 83,000).
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 Missahoe forest reserve, Togo |
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