1989-2005: The Environmental Consciousness Foundation (ECF)
Aimed to promote harmony between people and the environment; initiates, or supports, inspiring educational projects with new approaches to healthy living
Aimed to promote harmony between people and the environment; initiates, or supports, inspiring educational projects with new approaches to healthy living
and working. In 1996 the ECF was expanded to incorporate five other foundations previously created by Matser. These were:
1989: De Nieuwe Vaart (‘The New Stream’) Foundation
This foundation established and ran an innovative center for integrated health care, one of the first of its kind in the Netherlands in the 1980’s.
1989: De Nieuwe Vaart (‘The New Stream’) Foundation
This foundation established and ran an innovative center for integrated health care, one of the first of its kind in the Netherlands in the 1980’s.
The center uniquely combined allopathic medicine, alternative therapies and paranormal healing alongside leading edge health research, education and training. The center continues today but is now run privately.
1990: The Johan-Sophia Foundation
This foundation was established to promote harmony between human beings.
1990: The Johan-Sophia Foundation
This foundation was established to promote harmony between human beings.
To this end it has supported 70 projects in the fields of healthcare, education
and personal development.
1992: The Criança - Nossa Herança Foundation
This foundation worked to improve conditions and opportunities for underprivileged children and adolescents in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
1990: The Eighth Day Foundation
This foundation aimed to raise awareness about the development of genetic modification; the ethical dilemmas, potential dangers and other vital issues.
1993: The Preserved Land Foundation
This foundation enables children to creatively and playfully explore nature
1992: The Criança - Nossa Herança Foundation
This foundation worked to improve conditions and opportunities for underprivileged children and adolescents in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
1990: The Eighth Day Foundation
This foundation aimed to raise awareness about the development of genetic modification; the ethical dilemmas, potential dangers and other vital issues.
1993: The Preserved Land Foundation
This foundation enables children to creatively and playfully explore nature
and fosters their respect, love and care for all aspects of the natural world.
The foundation’s imaginative nature program has been experienced by many hundreds of Dutch school children.
1992: Gorbachev Foundation Netherlands
Matser established this foundation to support healthcare and self-sustainability projects in the former Soviet Union in cooperation with Mikhail Gorbachev. Projects have included a Bone Marrow Transplant Unit for a children’s hospital
1992: Gorbachev Foundation Netherlands
Matser established this foundation to support healthcare and self-sustainability projects in the former Soviet Union in cooperation with Mikhail Gorbachev. Projects have included a Bone Marrow Transplant Unit for a children’s hospital
in Moscow and residential accommodation at the hospital for parents of the sick children. This foundation later became the ITCHC (see below).
1993: Peace Child Europe
This foundation began as an initiative by David Woollcombe to enable children
1993: Peace Child Europe
This foundation began as an initiative by David Woollcombe to enable children
all over the world to create their own edition of Agenda 21 (a global, national
and local action plan for a sustainable environment that came out of the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992). Fred Matser helped initiate Peace Child Europe and has since supported a number of Peace Child projects.
1993: The Maia Foundation
Pieter Sluis, Michel Wijsmans and Fred Matser, co-founded ‘The Maia Foundation’ which aims to introduce ‘Health care with heart, mind, and soul’ within general hospitals. It initiates small-scale pilot projects in which medical staff, carers and patients all cooperate together to create new approaches to health care on a ward level.
1994: The Peace Flame Foundation
This foundation was established to bring inspiration and hope to people in war- torn Bosnia. Matser brought a group of Olympic and Paralympic gold medalists and, and a ‘peace flame’ – lit in the Olympic fire in Lillehammer (Norway)- to Sarajevo and also created a Peace Park and Rehabilitation Centre in nearby Tuzla providing therapy and support for war traumatized adults and children.
1995-2006: The International Trust for Children’s Health Care (ITCHC)
Fred Matser co-founded this Trust, together with Mikhail Gorbachev, and was Chairman of the Advisory Board. It aimed to improve healthcare for children, particularly in the Commonwealth of Independent States formerly part of the Soviet Union.
1995-2006: Foundation ’Gezondheidszorg Anders Beleven’ (‘Healthcare Experienced Differently’, nowadays called 'Anders beleven')
1993: The Maia Foundation
Pieter Sluis, Michel Wijsmans and Fred Matser, co-founded ‘The Maia Foundation’ which aims to introduce ‘Health care with heart, mind, and soul’ within general hospitals. It initiates small-scale pilot projects in which medical staff, carers and patients all cooperate together to create new approaches to health care on a ward level.
1994: The Peace Flame Foundation
This foundation was established to bring inspiration and hope to people in war- torn Bosnia. Matser brought a group of Olympic and Paralympic gold medalists and, and a ‘peace flame’ – lit in the Olympic fire in Lillehammer (Norway)- to Sarajevo and also created a Peace Park and Rehabilitation Centre in nearby Tuzla providing therapy and support for war traumatized adults and children.
1995-2006: The International Trust for Children’s Health Care (ITCHC)
Fred Matser co-founded this Trust, together with Mikhail Gorbachev, and was Chairman of the Advisory Board. It aimed to improve healthcare for children, particularly in the Commonwealth of Independent States formerly part of the Soviet Union.
1995-2006: Foundation ’Gezondheidszorg Anders Beleven’ (‘Healthcare Experienced Differently’, nowadays called 'Anders beleven')
Co-founded by Lydia Helwig-Nazarawo, Pieter Sluis, Sandra Kloezen and Fred Matser, this foundation organized large and small-scale fun and festive programs for hospitals and nursing homes. The programs aimed to promote health rather
than focus on disease.
1996: The Fred Foundation
The Fred Foundation aims to foster inspiration and stimulate self-reliance by supporting both individuals and groups in inspiring life changes that will benefit society. The intention is to contribute towards the development of a more functional society based on mutual co-existence, caring and sharing rather than on competition and inequity.
Inspiration, self-reliance and co-existence are all key aspects of Fred
1996: The Fred Foundation
The Fred Foundation aims to foster inspiration and stimulate self-reliance by supporting both individuals and groups in inspiring life changes that will benefit society. The intention is to contribute towards the development of a more functional society based on mutual co-existence, caring and sharing rather than on competition and inequity.
Inspiration, self-reliance and co-existence are all key aspects of Fred
Foundation projects.
1998: The Jane Goodall Institute Holland
After meeting Jane Goodall in 1995, and being impressed by her work, Fred Matser established a Dutch branch of the Jane Goodall Institute, committed to wildlife research, youth educational programs and the conservation of nature, with a special emphasis on chimpanzees.
1998: The Jane Goodall Institute Holland
After meeting Jane Goodall in 1995, and being impressed by her work, Fred Matser established a Dutch branch of the Jane Goodall Institute, committed to wildlife research, youth educational programs and the conservation of nature, with a special emphasis on chimpanzees.
