Your plan is meant for a group of people – not for personal support.

Your proposal involves a subject that matches the themes of the Haëlla Foundation. See: Our themes

You will work together with others, whether as a foundation or official organization, or as a group of initiators.

Volunteers play an important part in your project.

There must be a Dutch or English speaking contact person in the Netherlands who fully understands your project and who we can contact by telephone.

Our maximum donation is 4,000 euro. We can only consider projects with a maximum estimated budget of 100,000 euro. The budget of the entire organization may not exceed 500,000 euros.

Please note: the Haella Foundation does not contribute to the costs of fundraising!

The board of Haëlla Foundation makes the final decision.

You can only apply once a year.

Unfortunately our funds are limited. This means there are certain activities and organizations we can’t support. See: Exclusions

The Haëlla Foundation wants to finance projects abroad that contribute to:

– Promoting human/women’s rights
– Combating violence against women, LGBTIQ+, people with disabilities and (other) minorities
– Realizing lobbying and information from/for/by vulnerable groups and minorities (including minority positions)
– Strengthening resilience, self-reliance and emancipation of (marginalized groups) people (including attention to psychosocial trauma processing)
– A dignified life for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants
– Peace and democratization including peace education and prevention of extremism and polarization
– Connection of different groups of people and dialogue between different religions

Living together in the Netherlands

Is a just society your ideal? Do you want to do Do you want to promote a just society in the Netherlands? Do you want to bring people together from different backgrounds and facilitate dialogue between cultures? Do you want to support people who are having a hard time? People who find themselves disconnected from society? Do you want to work with and for women who are victims of domestic violence, refugees and asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, the homeless, addicts and ex-addicts, prisoners and former prisoners, people experiencing poverty or belonging to a minority? We have an extra budget available for children and young people who grow up in poverty thanks to the support of the funds we work with. Haëlla can help if your project is aimed at a group of vulnerable people; not on improving one person’s life.

Peace and Human Rights

Do you want to promote peace and better understanding between people? Do you want to stand up for human rights, address violations of these rights and increase freedom, equality and justice? Do you want to empower vulnerable and silenced people and make their voices heard? Do you want to increase awareness of human rights and how they can be observed? Do you want to work to prevent conflict? Haëlla can help you if your project is peaceful, with an open attitude and respect for others.

Commitment to the Earth

We do not finance vegetable garden projects, food forests, etc.

And in other countries (i.e. outside the Nehterlands) we can not finance projects in this thematic area. For our priorities abroad please see the section above, about our work abroad (look for the ♥ symbol).

Faith and Society

We do not finance vegetable garden projects, food forests, etc.

And in other countries (i.e. outside the Nehterlands) we can not finance projects in this thematic area. For our priorities abroad please see the section above, about our work abroad (look for the ♥ symbol). you like to give form to the practical and social aspects of your faith, to shape society more in line with the diaconal underpinnings of your belief? Is it your ideal to bind faiths and cultures together and to enhance mutual respect? Do you want to renew your faith or tradition or to broaden its vision? Are you engaged in a dialogue about aspects of faith and society? Are you working to promote peace or in the area of climate change? Haëlla can help if your project is respectful towards others who might live, think and believe differently.

Women’s Rights

Women’s Rights has been a focus for the Haella Foundation since its formation in 1967. More than 100 years of fighting for women’s rights has made a difference, but not nearly as much as hoped. In some countries, the progress achieved ie even in jeopardy. A third of women in The Netherlands and worldwide, experience or have experienced violence. Many countries have discriminatory laws and practices that oppress women. In 2019, it was decided that the theme of Women’s Rights would be a focus alongside the theme of Undocumented Persons, and to make extra budget available for these projects. All over the world, there are women who, working together with men or working alone, are committed to women’s rights in combination with human rights, sustainability and peace. They often have much less easy access to money, in their fight against discrimination and violence against women. That is one of the reasons for the Haëlla Foundation to support them.

Undocumented Persons in the Netherlands

In 2013, under the title ‘Traveling without papers’, the foundation focused on providing additional support to organizations that work with or for people without residence papers. In addition, this spearhead is also intended as a fund to gain more insight into the problems and needs of this vulnerable group of people in our country. The Haëlla Asset Management Foundation has made an additional amount available each year for this purpose.

Injustice at the Edges of Europe

Haella supports more than 20 (small) organizations in various countries on the borders of Europe, particularly in Greece and France. They provide aid to thousands of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants who are stranded in these countries after arduous journeys over land and sea, offering access to legal assistance, emergency aid, medical and psychosocial support, and shelter. Additionally, they are active in lobbying and advocacy, documenting human rights violations—by Frontex, coast guards, and border police—to promote effective asylum procedures, safe escape routes, and adequate reception facilities.

Due to the current political climate, which results in a hardened stance in Europe towards refugees and asylum seekers, the situation for both people on the move and the organizations supporting them is becoming increasingly vulnerable. Universal human rights are being questioned or selectively applied in these (and other) situations. Haella provides both financial and moral support to organizations dedicated to countering aggression against displaced individuals, criminal prosecution of NGOs, and the dismantling of opportunities for NGOs to assist those in need.

• building activities and the purchase of land
• sports and recreation
• individual support
• city-and school exchange programs
• vacations/holiday camps
• student conferences
• scholarships and internships within the Netherlands and abroad
• scientific research and PHD research
• book and magazine publications
• cultural exchange programs
• renovation of)churches
• emergency aid
• medical projects and care for the disabled in the Netherlands. In overseas territories only as an exception.
• playgrounds
• orphanages
• projects concerning the protection of animal species
• housing cooperatives
• large scale welfare organizations
• anniversary celebrations

Please note: additional exclusions abroad:
– Projects focused on buildings and the equipment of buildings
– Projects focused on infrastructure and associated facilities, for example water pumps, educational supplies and housing
– Projects that only focus on vocational training and that have no follow-up plan to actually help people find work.