Stichting Suikertantefonds

formerly Foundation Elimu Mount Elgon

About us

In 1996 Bea Andersen started a clinic from which she offered medical care to the local population, followed in 1998 by a nursery and primary school. In the following five years these two classrooms grew into a real nursery and primary school with 11 classrooms and 900 pupils. These projects were financed mainly by private means.
In 2005 the Mount Elgon Trust was founded to give her work a more official and business-like basis. The Trust is a registered Non-Governmental Charity, a NGO. Investments for new projects are now submitted to organizations abroad, such as the partner-organizations in the Netherlands, the Stichting Elímu Mount Elgon and the Stichting Ondersteuning Kitale-project (SOK).
The foundation Stichting Elímu Mount Elgon was set up in Tilburg in the Netherlands in 2005. It was named ‘Elímu Mount Elgon’ because ‘Elímu’ is Kiswahili for ‘education’. Education is what the foundation is committed to: i.e. better education in the village of Chepchoina, Kenya, on the border of Mount Elgon National Park.
In the articles of association it says: giving financial and/or material support to projects in the Mount Elgon region of Kenia related to education and vocational training initiated and supervised by Bea and Bob Andersen.
In order to support the educational projects of the Trust, the Elimu Foundation raises money and knowledge through various activities in The Netherlands. In Tilburg, the shop Tante Pollewop (translated as Auntie Pollewop) is well-known. In 2015 this project won the best volunteer initiative prize in Tilburg because the shop annually supplies clothing to approximately 2,000 children from financially disadvantaged families in Tilburg. Tante Pollewop, a second-hand clothing store, has an annual revenue of approximately €25,000 which is transferred to the Mount Elgon Trust.

Our work
• In real terms this mission entails offering financial and/ or material support to projects related to education and vocational training in the project area.
• Since 2005 the foundation has built nurseries and primary schools, as well as secondary schools and a Vocational Training centre all concentrated on a 60 acres spot called Andersen Development Village.
• Children in poor families are supported by a training fund, so that all children and youngsters in Mount Elgon may attend school.
• Capacity building of local institutions, part of our programme since 2013, will be intensified in the coming years.

Projects in Kenya:
• Vocational Training Centre, Primary school, High school

Ad Waijers is the Secretary and Treasurer of the Foundation Stichting Elímu Mount Elgon.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.