Rural Health Care
De Boomgaard Foundation was established on May 12, 2005 as a private grant-giving foundation.
The founders are two philanthropists who wish to support youth and children, initiatives to advance climate justice and local heritage and innovations. The foundation is partnering with ambitious charities or non-for profit organisations. It was ranked as public benefit organisation (ANBI) and can make and receive tax-free donations.
The Nour Center is an Educational Center for Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Founded in 2013 it aims to meet the educational needs of newly arrived Syrian children and families in Burj El Barajneh.
With the grant, 600 Waka-Waka solar power banks and lights were distributed in no time to 1.500 people.
The devastating explosion of the National Port of Beirut has killed at least 154-200 persons, injured more than 6,000 people and displaced 300,000 people including 80,000 children, as reported by UNICEF.
The Dirk Kuyt Foundation focuses on sports for the dis- and less abled people. From G-football to sailing and from wheelchair tennis to billiards for people with Parkinson. After all, sport not only has a physical function, but also plays an important role in social integration.
Ndlovu focuses amongst others on education for child and youth development. During a visit at a regional Department of Education in South Africa, Hugo Tempelman (Chair of the Ndlovu Trust) observed the lack of computers in anyone of the offices.
In the Netherlands 20,000 children live with a rare muscle disease: a full football stadium. Spieren voor Spieren (muscles for muscles) aims to help all children with muscle diseases.
The Ndlovu Youth Choir, a successful youth choir from South Africa, founded in 2009, is an opportunity for talented young people to escape the troubles in the townships.
Many of these children have been affected by the HIV / AIDS epidemic, their parents have died or they themselves are infected with HIV. Some have been raped, assaulted, drug addicted, victims of crime or become criminals themselves in order to survive.
Nice Place Foundation is a leadership training and shelter centre in Kajiado district in Kenya. The centre provides a safe learning environment for young women and girls at risk of being circumcised or in child marriage.
The Ingeborg Douwes Foundation stands for psychosocial help for cancer patients and their loved ones, for young and old, regardless of religion, culture and political persuasion.
The social enterprise Biocomp aims to achieve financial, social and environmental improvements through commercial strategies to contribute to the creation of a circular economy in Nepal.
The National Innovation Centre in Nepal invented and built the Nyano Nani. An affordable, effective and locally built baby warmer that provides essential warmth to hypothermic newborn babies. The staff worked closely with, among others, students at TU Delft. The contribution is aimed at reducing the production price.
The LifeLine Ukraine foundation was established immediately after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They provide demand-driven material humanitarian assistance to those Ukrainians who do not receive large-scale support in areas bordering Belarus, Russia or the front line. With help of De Boomgaard, the transport of cook stoves from the Netherlands to Ukraine was provided.
Nice Place is a unique leadership Academy, and shelter centre in the Kajiado district in the Maasai area in Kenya. The centre provides a safe learning environment for young women and girls at risk of being circumcised or of being married off as a child.
Child Welfare South Africa is a public benefit organization, dedicated to protecting and nurturing children within their family units in 22 rural areas. In the Ugu District in KwaZulu Natal. Child Welfare has expanded her staff with some permanent community and administrative workers with funds provided by Stichting de Boomgaard.
Stichting Rhiza, or Rhiza Babuyile, active in South Africa aims at self-sustainable health care in townships by innovative Nursepreneur clinics. Nurse-led mobile clinics provide communities with access to quality primary healthcare. Foundation De Boomgaard has funded a Nursepreneur clinic in Soshanguve, a township near Pretoria, where 1 million people live in poverty.
We fund continuation of healthcare in Al Bab city, Swaiha region, and mobile medical posts in refugee camps in Aleppo province in Syria.
The Dutch Thrombosis Foundation undertakes scientific research into kids thrombosis, in its PHARMA Kids survey.
Training of trauma specialists is undertaken to support traumatized victims of conflict and internal violence.
Tweega Medica provides medical care for disadvantaged populations in remote areas in Tanzania and Malawi. De Boomgaard helps them scale up in 3 different hospitals.