Womens Rights
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.
IWPR gives a voice to citizens, journalists and human rights activists in war zones and countries in transition. IWPR trains and provides platforms for local reporters, strengthening the institutional capacity of local media and community groups, to create space for a locally constructive debate.
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 Free a Girl foundation rescues underage girls from situations of sexual exploitation. It provides them with aftercare and legal support.
The Toon Beeld Foundation produces in-depth documentaries and portraits in collaboration with Human Nature Films. The films funded demonstrate the professional and communal approach of female coffee farmers in Rwanda to Dutch coffee lovers. Distribution with trailers and brochure is foreseen.
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.
Wonderzine is an online Russian women’s magazine published since 2014. Featuring social stories, visuals and lifestyle, the magazine looks at issues impacting Russia and the post-Soviet region through a feminist lens. Funding of Foundation De Boomgaard contributes to rebuilding the audience of once 3.5 million people.
In Afghanistan girls access to education is extremely restricted by the Taliban. Despite all exclusions Learn Afghan provides adolescent girls with skills and knowledge to study further, fostering their personal growth, leadership and communities development. Foundation De Boomgaard supports girls studying in Kandahar, Bamyan and Helmand provinces.
The Cornerstone Foundation helps vulnerable school leavers in Rwanda with vocational training and thus to gain a solid foundation for life. It is the Great Lakes Hospitality Institute which trains young people to become professionals in the hotel and restaurant industry by teaching them the essential basic skills.
Biocomp is active in Nepal in recycling organic waste into compost. End 2024 it opened a recycling plant to reprocess low-grade plastics into building materials.
Stichting Pamoja Nguvu micro finances vulnerable groups of women in Arusha, Tanzania. The support of De Boomgaard helps 30 women.
With the “Future is Fungi Award”, we both honor and accelerate the use of fungi to solve pressing environmental challenges. We want to inspire to more fungi research and startup innovations.
We fund continuation of healthcare in Al Bab city, Swaiha region, and mobile medical posts in refugee camps in Aleppo province in Syria.
The National Witch Monument Foundation wants to create a physical monument in memory of those who have been persecuted, tortured, convicted and put to death as witches on the territory of The Netherlands.
Partners for Girls founded a leadership centre for girls in Butula in Busia County and provides job preparation and coaching. Foundation De Boomgaard helped kickstart this centre and funded sanitary facilities.
SHE Changes Climate empowers women leaders to strengthen women groups and networks in their countries to connect, share and build resilience and to lead local and global climate action. The funding supports ambassadors at COP29 in Azerbaijan and strengthens the networks.
Dar Moustaqbel means 'The House of the Future'. It offers a safe shelter and quality education to 80 female students a year in and around Marrakech, Morocco.
This project to implement Bio Gas on women’s lives in Mashonaland East in Zimbabwe. It improves their health and financial well being and serves climate goals too.