Stichting Improve

Stichting Improve is a foundation based in Ede, Netherlands working on health, education.

Stichting Improve is a Dutch foundation based in Ede that works to make oral care accessible to everyone, mainly in West Africa. The foundation supports the start-up and renovation of dental clinics run by local dentists, financing, coaching and entrepreneurial guidance for those dentists, and the training of local dentists, dental teachers, biomedical technicians and oral surgeons. It also sponsors individual dental students and runs prevention activities such as waiting-room education videos. Its clinics are linked to a network that connects each practice with a dental practice in the Netherlands, which shares knowledge, organises purchasing of quality materials and provides free dental care to people who cannot pay. The foundation works with local partner organisations and with companies and other foundations. Its projects have been carried out in Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Guinea, Malawi and Niger, and it is funded mainly by private donors, whose contributions cover the foundation's operating costs so that all donations go directly to projects. The foundation holds ANBI status in the Netherlands and CBF recognition.