To Be Worldwide

TO BE WORLDWIDE is a Foundation that helps children in developing countries realise their full potential, so that later they can help build their communities.

To Be Worldwide has made a meaningful contribution towards access to facilities for quality education. Founded in 2002 To Be Worldwide builds educational facilities that complement the existing school structure.

Each facility offers a children's library, a computer Centre and an activities program.

All programs are designed to stimulate the development of children's creative & ICT skills. The facilities operate in partnership with the local school for basic education (primary- and junior secondary schools).

To Be Worldwide is member of the American Fund for Charities, a 501(c)(3) Tax-exempt organisation.

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To Be Worldwide builds her 2nd Educational Resource Centre

28 November 2008

To Be Worldwide has commenced building the Cape Coast Educational Resource Centre (CCERC). The location is Pedu, a suburb of Cape Coast, in the Central Region of Ghana. The location is within a 10-minute walk from a cluster of public schools.

We will be servicing 12 schools with 5500 students. The Cape Coast Educational Resource Centre will be based on the successful concept of the Takoradi Educational Resource Centre.

The ground breaking ceremony and the laying of the foundation took place in October/November 2008. We expect the building to be completed in the autumn of 2009.

Net4Kids Aid Foundation visits To Be Worldwide Ghana

4 November 2008

To Be Worldwide was very pleased to have the opportunity to show Mr. Emile van de Klok, of Net4kids Aid Foundation, our work at the Takoradi Eductional Resource Centre. Net4kids Aid Foundation has supported To Be Worldwide since 2003 and is always committed to helping us realise our goals.

Mr. van de Klok also worked with us to identify opportunities and create ideas to obtain a level of sustainability for the Centre and the Ghana based organisation. We hope to put some of the ideas discussed into practise in the future.

For a full report on Mr. van de Klok’s visit click on read more....

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Turing Foundation visits To Be Worldwide Ghana

3 November 2008

It was a pleasure to welcome the board of the Turing Foundation to our Takoradi Educational Resource Centre on November 3rd. The Turing Foundation, established in 2006 by Pieter Geelen, co-founder of TomTom,

awarded To Be Worldwide a grant to build its second centre in Cape Coast, Ghana. Construction on the Cape Coast started in November 2008.

The Board visited the Takoradi centre to get a feel for how future ToBe centres will operate and what they will achieve in their communities.

Mr. Frits Bolkestein visits To Be Worldwide Ghana

18 September 2008

Frits Bolkestein – former Dutch Minister of Foreign Trade and of Defence, former member of the European Commission - recently visited the Takoradi Educational Resource Centre as part of a personal West African tour to Sierra Leone and Ghana.

Mr. Bolkestein noted that Ghana is going through an impressive development. This is in stark contrast to Sierra Leone, which has suffered greatly due to the civil war. Ghana has shown an annual economic growth of approximately 6% in 2007 and is clearly committed to ICT for Accelerated Development.

CNote visits The Takoradi Educational Resource Centre.

26 May 2008

The purpose of the visit was to get to know the To Be Worldwide Foundation and the work it does with the children, in particular the work on a creative level.

Cnote creates customer experiences that delivers bottom line results. They define strategy & concepts that work for your customers each time.

The Cnote Team, Lea Ward (To Be Worldwide Boardmember and co-founder of Cnote), Veronique van Cruchten and Bernadette Kuiper worked with a group of 12 children on a project called "What's your business". Translating the mini business plans written by the children in to commercials made by the children themselves.

It was a very inspiring project. The enthusiasm of the Cnote Team, the incredible creativity and talent of the children.....everything fell into place.

To Be Worldwide finalist in the Stockholm Challange Award

30 March 2008

Stockholm March 25, 2008. The jury of the Stockholm Challenge Award has selected the 2008 finalists in six categories, a total of 145 outstanding ICT projects. They are presented on the Challenge Event site at http://event.stockholmchallenge.se per category.

All finalist projects are invited to come to Stockholm and participate in Challenge Week, May 19 – 22 in
Kista, north of Stockholm City. The Awards celebrations will take place in the evening on May 22, in the Blue Hall, venue of the Nobel Banquet. During this evening, the winning project in each category will be
announced and presented with the Challenge Trophy and a check of 5.000 Euros.

To Be Worldwide enters into partnership with Vanhier”

18 March 2008

To Be Worldwide is pleased to announce her partnership with Vanhier, advisors for accountancy and tax. This cooperation will help To Be Worldwide to provide a transparent and structured reporting system for the whole organization including the Ghana based Foundation. This reporting system will be developed to cope with growth and development of more centers in Ghana

Ever since their foundation Vanhier has been supporting a wide variety of small and medium-sized businesses. With enhanced services and hands-on experience Vanhier supports entrepreneurs concerning financial matters. Their basic principle is: do what you are good at, that’s what we do. And we are just around the corner, that’s why we’re from here.

www.vanhier.nl

Sterren op het doek
De schilderijen, die zijn gemaakt voor het tv-programma Sterren op het Doek, zijn dinsdag 23 oktober 2007 geveild voor het goede doel.

Voor de show interviewde Hanneke Groenteman prominente Nederlanders die werden geportretteerd door drie kunstschilders. Uit drie verschillende portretten mochten de deelnemers er een kiezen. De overige werken zijn nu geveild, met een totale opbrengst van ruim 20 duizend euro.

De schilderijen van de oud-politicus brachten 2950 euro op voor twee stichtingen, waaronder To Be Worldwide, dat zich inzet voor ontwikkeling en scholing van kinderen in ontwikkelingslanden.

"Zowel Albert Verlinde, Loretta Schrijver en Frits Bolkestein waren aanwezig en hebben met hun vrienden en familie de prijs voor hun portretten flink opgedreven."

Uit artikel nu.nl van 23 oktober 2007

To Be Worldwide Ghana “Essay Competition”

5 October 2007

In August an essay competition was held at the Takoradi Educational Resource Centre. All children were free to select a topic within their categories.

At no point has their story been changed or corrected in the retyping phase. Some of the essays give you an insight into issues that are being addressed in Ghana.

Essay’s were written in 3 categories:

1. A New Website.
3. I wonder?

To Be Worldwide and photographer Caro Bonink initiate "Similarities" project

25 June 2007

Photographer Caro Bonink and To Be Worldwide have initiated a photography project to link a school in the Netherlands and our children in Takoradi.

The project is called “Similarities” The objective of the project is to share similar experiences using photography and multi media.

We have been able to secure part of the funding for this project. InterimIC and Iona Stichting and the communication studio De Daad are the main sponsors.

To follow the Similarities project, please click here...