The Sunday Foundation

The Sunday Foundation was founded in 2003 by Sander de Kramer and Hugo Borst, two Dutch journalists. While working on a project about Sierra Leone, Sander de Kramer saw the extreme poverty and helplessness of thousands of children. Young orphans who lost their parents in the civil war were now working very long, intensive days in diamond mines, getting paid pretty much nothing. The child slavery was unbearable to see and at that moment Sander decided to commit to a lifelong project to help these children. Soon after the children that he saw that day were taken out of the diamond mines and started their first school day, which turned out to be the start of The Sunday Foundation.

Nowadays the foundation has built more than 30 schools in Africa and has given a hopeful perspective to many children. As the foundation is run completely by volunteers, 100% of the fund-raisers will end up in the actual project. No salaries, no pay-checks, no rent, nothing but the development the charity projects.