The Anne van den Ban Fund is named after Dr Anne van den Ban, a former professor Rural Extension at Wageningen University. The fund was founded in 1992 by two Wageningen alumni. The Anne van den Ban Fund is affiliated to the Wageningen University Fund.
Goal
The fund exists to enable promising students from developing countries to study at Wageningen University. The long term goal is the training of talented experts who will go on to play leading roles in improving the agricultural production, rural development and environment in their own countries.
In addition to the geographical criteria students applying for the fund must meet the following conditions:
- they must already be accepted for their chosen study at Wageningen
- they must have achieved good academic results in their own country
- they must intend to return to their own country at the completion of their degree
The fund also gives preference to candidates who already receive some form of financial assistance.
Applicants please note: the Anne van den Ban Fund is not a rich fund. The fund can only support a limited number of students each year! Check our contact page for the latest news.
Board:
Professor Johan Bouma (Chairman)
Dr. Lot (C.H.) Hänisch ten Cate (Secretary)
Dr.Ir. Tjark Struif Bontkes (Treasurer)
Ir. Hans (J.) Jansen (secretaris studentenzaken)
Dr. Ir. Henk Udo
Dr. Ir. Anne van den Ban
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‘One of the Millennium Development Goals of the U.N. is to reduce by 50% the number of people living on less than a dollar a day. One of the main causes of poverty is lack of knowledge. Knowledge is indispensable in the struggle against poverty and so I decided to something about it.
In Wageningen students acquire the knowledge and insight needed to develop solutions for improving situations in their own countries. Currently it costs a foreign student about €34.000 to pursue a degree at Wageningen. In 1992 I decided to pay the needed funds myself in order to give a student the opportunity to study with us. This was the beginning of the Anne van den Ban Fund’.
The fund comprises 800 donors. In 2008 over a hundred students contacted us for financial assistance, 45 of whom received funding. We hope to be able to help even more students in the future, but more money will be needed’. |