Opportunities for future generations
Our Mission
Our Vision
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Contribution
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Activities & Projects
1. School Sponsorships
The School program creates opportunities for children to attend school. We pay for the school fees and provide the required resources (e.g., uniforms, school materials, food, transportation). This support covers elementary and secondary boarding schools, as well as further education (vocational education and university).
2. Community Safe Centers
At our Safe Centers, we provide extra support to children who are not in the School Sponsorship program by offering extra lessons in basic subjects (like math, language) as well as life skills (like personal development, resilience). The children from the school sponsorship program also visit the Safe center during their vacations. This initiative is ran with a lot of support from parents and other community members
3. Livelihood Improvements
In 2024, a third activity was added to the program in close cooperation with our partners of the Dutch Foundation 100WEEKS. Through this activity we support families to get out of poverty by helping them build and develop new businesses during a period of 100 weeks.
News
2024 End of the Year Note
Dear friends and supporters of the MiekFoundation First and foremost, a heartfelt thank you to all who support the MiekFoundation so generously in the past year! 2024 was a good year for the MF on many dimensions. We are fully committed to continuing the journey in 2025 and further expand our impact on all dimensions. […]
2023 End of the Year Note
Dear friends and supporters of the MiekFoundation, Thanks so much to all our generous donors for your continued, very generous, and highly appreciated support to the MiekFoundation throughout the past year! This was the first full school year post COVID. In November Willemijn and Peter visited Uganda again and it was great to see the […]
Reflecting on 2022 and looking forward to 2023
Just a short note to keep you updated and to thank you all for your continued, generous, and highly appreciated support! A few reflections on the past year 2022 Was again a very special year. Finally, after the longest COVID lock-down of schools globally, the boarding schools that we work with were opened again early […]
Our visit to Uganda, September 2022
Early September we (Andrew, Anneclaire, Giny, Peter and Willemijn) had a wonderful visit to Uganda. First, we visited the boarding schools where we met all the girls we support. After that, we went to their community at Bussi Island where we visited our Safe Center and met all parents and the team of community representatives. […]
Celebrating Christmas & Wishing a wonderful 2022
Wishing you a Merry Christmas from Uganda with this amazing song! Christmas Celebration 2021: The girls enjoying cake, gifts and lunch. Wishing you a Happy New Year form Uganda! Happy New Year and Thank You for your continuous support to the MiekFoundation!
2021 End of the Year Note
Dear friends of the MiekFoundation, THANK YOU for your very generous support to our MF in 2021! Because of the continuing Covid pandemic, again a year that was completely different than any of us could have expected. This note provides a short overview of our activities in the past year as well as an outlook […]
Wonderful developments in 2021
Dear friends of the MiekFoundation, HAPPY EASTER to all of you from all of us at the MiekFoundation! We hope all of you are in good health and are well despite all Covid challenges. Also in Uganda, Covid is still determining the lives of many with large parts of the country still in lockdown. The […]
Reflections on 2020 and looking ahead towards 2021
Reflections on 2020 and looking ahead 2021 Dear friends of the MiekFoundation, THANK YOU for your great support to the MF in 2020, a year that has been a rollercoaster for all of us. In this note, we would like to reflect on the past year and, more importantly, look forward to what we believe […]
Visiting Uganda October 2019
Op 30 september komen we na 10,5 uur vliegen aan op de luchthaven van Entebbe. Willemijn heeft de school in Sala voor het laatst in 2014 bezocht en voor Meredith wordt het deze week haar eerste keer. Op de luchthaven worden we warm onthaald door de lokale familie, tevens de oprichters van de school. Na een […]
Bezoek Uganda 2018
In oktober 2018 ben ik, Joel, naar Uganda geweest om vrijwilligerswerk te doen op een school in Sala. Na een warm welkom door de lokale familie, heb ik mijn veldwerk gestart. Allereerst heb ik kennis gemaakt met leraren, kinderen en andere vrijwilligers die op dat moment op de school werkten. Samen met het lokale team […]