BWEF Funding
Over 80% of the funding for BWEF comes from individual donors, but BWEF also enjoys some support from Foundations and has received Grants.
Foundations
The Hirschmann Foundation
The Hirschmann Foundation, based in Zurich, Switzerland, financed the education of ten of our girls for the school year 2023-24. Five of those will graduate in 2024. The Foundation recently informed us that they will finance the studies of the remaining five, three of whom will graduate in 2025 and the last two in 2026.
Grants
10,000€ Government of Luxembourg, 2011, general support.
$10,000 The Bertini Fund, (USA), 2014 --$10,000 for, among other things, a project by
the Sinsine Women’s Cooperative to raise sesame for Haoua’s Master’s thesis.
6,000 CHF Geneva UN Women’s Guild, 2014 - to establish a Health Fund to pay for girls’ vaccinations and emergency health care.
10,000€ Austrian Development Agency, 2019, general support.
10,000 CHF Club Diplomatique, Geneva, 2019, general support.
3,000 CHF Féminin Pluriel. Geneva, 2019, general support.
10,000 CHF Oak Foundation, Geneva, 2022, general support.
3,500 CHF Commune de Bellevue, Geneva, 2022 -- 3,500 CHF to finance computer education for our girls.