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Alternative livelihoods to protect an important habitat for chimpanzees, Guinea, 2020-2021
The British David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation was founded in 1984 to support initiatives protecting wildlife. The team in the UK does long-term work through local partners and currently supports fifteen projects in nine countries. In Guinea they work with the Chimpanzee Conservation Centre (CCC). CCC takes care of orphaned and confiscated chimpanzees and releases them back into the wild. The organisation also protects an important habitat for 500 chimpanzees in the National Park of Upper Niger, the Kouya and Mafou forests. CCC works with local communities to raise awareness and provide alternative sources of income to ease pressure on the ecosystem. This project involves setting up food gardens, improving the production of bags made from recycled plastic bottles, improving beekeeping and soap production, and expanding to include other women's groups. The Turing Foundation is contributing €8,500 towards this project.  Chimpansee Conservation Centre, Guinée |
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Forest conservation by introducing green briquettes, Coyah, Guinea, 2020-2021
The Milly Mamoudou Foundation helps the Guinean organisation ONG Sarinka in its mission to create employment in two villages in Coyah. This multifunctional park with accommodation which is let to tourists (overnight stays), private individuals (weddings) and companies (workshops), provides 17 people with employment and generates a modest income for new small-scale projects. This project is too large for them to finance. ONG Sarinka wants to restore the ecosystem along the Sarinka River together with the local Jeunes Amis pour le Futur Foundation. Water sources are drying up faster and more and more people feel the need to do something about it. The organisation is doing this with the local population by planting trees, providing an alternative to felling trees - the production of green briquettes, and raising awareness through locally based green commissions. Production units which turn green waste into charcoal are being installed in two villages. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 36,000 towards this project.  Forest conservation by introducing green briquettes, Coyah, Guinea |
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Teacher training at six primary schools, Guinea, 2017-2019
School-to-School International's Whole Child Model provides teaching, as well as health (food and hygiene), and stimulating an engaged community for a better future for the children. To improve education, School-to-School is working with the ministry of education to develop an improved curriculum and better instruction materials for mathematics in years 1 and 2 and for reading in years 3 and 4. Fifteen teachers and six head teachers are being trained during this process. Following this year, the curriculum will be extended to four other schools that School-to-School works with, and hopefully the government will also extend it to many other schools in Guinea. The Turing Foundation is contributing €17,000 towards the training component. See also: Other teacher training projects  Teacher training at six primary schools, Guinée |
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Girl-friendly school EAF, Guinée, 2014-2017
The French education organisation Aide et Action is a major international player aiming to improve access to and quality of education in Guinea. It is improving education for 5,000 students at twenty schools in four rural communities in Boké and Kindia, by training teachers and increasing local involvement in the education system. 120 teachers are learning better teaching methods, and also how to develop a more positive towards girls. Local involvement in the education system is increased by formulating, selecting and implementing school projects together with local communities. In addition, these school projects directly contribute to better education by, for instancce, removing obstacles for girls. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 150,000 to this project (of which, € 25,000 in 2017).
See also:
 Girl-friendly school EAF, Guinée, 2014-2017 |
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Foundation for Refugee Students UAF, 2007-2009
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. Just like the past few years, the Turing Foundation donates € 50,000 to the UAF in 2009. See also: Other projects in Liberia  UAF dimplomas 2008 |
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