Dimes Stichting

Our Values

Social responsibility and equity: Dimes endeavors to add value in its assistance to projects and to advance social goals. It believes in providing equal access to opportunities and remedying injustice.

Empowerment: DIMES believes in the process of empowerment which includes encouraging, and developing the skills and the capacity for self-sufficiency, with a focus on eliminating the future need for charity or welfare in disenfranchised and marginalized individuals and/or communities.

Respect for local capacity: DIMES takes into consideration local realities when determining the appropriateness of contributions.

Our Projects

Bolivia: poverty alleviation and female empowerment in the Potosi mining region (2008-2018).

Kyrgyzstan: providing shelter, legal and psychological support to battered women and victims of human trafficking (2009-2024).

Saharawi refugee camps: rehabilitating and repairing primary schools in Tindouf (2012-2022) and in Wilaya Dajila (2015). Providing emergency flood relief (2015). Supporting the annual Fisahara film festival (2012-2024). Providing core support to the National Union of the Saharawi Women Organization and support to the Saharawi Red Crescent for adding women to their staff (2016-2024).

Timor-Leste: co-financing with the European Union, Triangle Generation Humanitaire's project to strengthen civil society and protect women and child victims of domestic violence (2015-2017). Providing direct support to the three local NGOs underpinning the EU-Triangle project: Casa Vida, Fokupers, Pradet (2018-2024).

Armenia: providing support to a local NGO that engages in advocacy to change the legal framework underpinning protections for victims of domestic violence and supports victims through shelters, psychological support and training (2018-2024).

Serbia: providing support to a local NGO that combats domestic violence in the Smederevska Palanka locality. (2018-2024).

Albania: providing support to a local NGO that combats domestic violence in the Durrës region (2023-2024).

Zimbabwe: equipping vulnerable girls and young women with technical and entrepreneurial skills in carpentry and brick-laying through a local NGO that operates a network of Girls Clubs in low-income communities (2023-2024).

Tanzania: providing training to and expanding the network of local Solar Sister entrepreneurs who deliver last-mile, energy-poor rural households with clean energy (2023-2024).

Guatemala: combating gender inequality and ending violence against indigenous girls and women in rural areas through education, access to legal services, and justice-system capacity building (2023-2024).

India: supporting a Women's Land Rights program to provide ownership, tenure security or land access to 50,000 women (2023-2024).

Ghana: supporting secondary education for girls (2008-2011).

Other foundations: support improving the quality and effectiveness of humanitarian action for vulnerable populations affected by armed conflict and natural disasters (2012-2013). Support research that provides innovative thinking and rigorous analysis of key debates in international relations (2012-2015). Extraordinary support for Ukrainian Refugees through People in Need (Czech Republic) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2022). Extraordinary support to earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria through the ICRC and White Helmets (2023).

Our Policy Plan

The Board of Dimes will continue in 2024 and 2025 to support existing projects based on an annual review of the progress reports provided by its social investment advisors, an independent firm that assists the Board in identifying, selecting, negotiating, managing and monitoring projects.

The Board will evaluate select new projects identified by its social investment advisors over the next few years in light of its mission and on the basis of the following selection criteria, among other criteria:

Clear objectives
Direct and measurable impact on the beneficiaries
Transparent and accountable management
Effectiveness
Absorption capacity of recipient
Track-record of foundation or NGO spearheading the project
Normally part of a multi-year program
Anchorage in the local community

Decisions to fund projects are the sole authority of the Board and require a simple majority vote.

About

Dimes Stichting Charitable Foundation is a public benefit organization registered in the Netherlands. Its Chamber of Commerce registration number is: 24393675. Its fiscal registration number (RSIN) is: 816861286.

Dimes Stichting Charitable Foundation (“Dimes”) has as primary mission, the financing of projects that empower women in developing countries. Dimes also provides support to advancing an understanding of international relations and to improving humanitarian responses globally.

ADDRESS

Dimes Stichting Charitable Foundation

Verlengde Poolseweg 14

4818 CL Breda

The Netherlands

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