BrITE Foundation

After storm damage, students at SMP Niukbaun, a rural junior high school in East Indonesia, lacked a proper library. With almost 12,000-euro BrITE funding, a new environmentally responsible library building is being constructed by Happy Heart Indonesia and equipped with reading materials and furniture. This project, suggested by one of our colleagues in Jakarta in October 2025, benefits students, teachers, and the wider community, promoting literacy and fostering a love for reading. Copyright image: Happy Hearts Indonesia

We’ve been supporting Project Seagrass - a global facing charity committed to conserving the threatened seagrass ecosystems through education, research and action. Seagrass meadows support thousands of marine species, produce oxygen, store carbon, stabilise coastlines and keep our oceans clean and clear. On the back of a 5,000-euro donation in end-2023 and a first donation of 10,000 euros a year earlier, they have been able to purchase a Seed Lab to house seeds and conduct research to see whether different meadows influence seed morphology and viability. So far (October 2025) Project Seagrass was able to plant more than 2 million seagrass seeds.

On 20 September 2025, BrITE and YOUNG Haskoning partnered up again to support World Cleanup Day – an annual event aimed at creating awareness and combating the global litter problem. This was the 5th time Haskoning joined the event, and colleagues from 20 offices around the world rolled up their sleeves and made a difference in their local communities.

In August 2025, we were thrilled to donate 7,000 euros to SOS Children’s Village in Ho Chi Minh City to help them build a community garden benefitting the 200+ children living there. The garden is meant to improve the wellbeing of these vulnerable children, enhance their environmental awareness and foster a sense of community. The suggestion to support this project called ‘Future Seed’ came from one of our colleagues in Ho Chi Minh City. The garden is planned to open in October.

Mid-2025, we supported the Dutch NGO called Dopomoha (meaning aid in Ukraine) by funding the transport of materials they collected to (re)build hospitals and classrooms in underground shelters, and provide emergency aid to the people in Ukraine. To transport these materials from the Netherlands to Ukraine, BrITE donated 3,000 euros. The suggestion to support them came from one of our colleagues in Zwolle who is helping this NGO.

December 2024, we partnered with Dutch nature foundation Landschap Erfgoed Utrecht to help them restore Fort Rhijnauwen (photo) and Fort Ruigenhoek. New greenery will be added to provide a good habitat for the friendly wild bee that is threatened with extinction. The project will also contribute to the overall biodiversity as well as to the educational and recreational functions of the fortresses. This collaboration originated from a suggestion made by one of our colleagues in the Amersfoort office that is close by these fortresses. We are supporting the foundation with 10,000 euros.

October 2024, we decided to support Australia’s Reef Restoration Foundation to massively increase the spawning of coral stock in mobile nurseries to add billions of fertilised coral larvae back to the Great Barrier Reef. One of our Brisbane colleagues suggested we support them purchasing a special optics device that will help to mimic the wild environment where the coral will be taken from to achieve the best results. We donated 9,500 euros to assist with this.

Put forward by our Edinburgh colleagues, we decided to support the Trees for Life charity in Scotland who are restoring a vital part of Scotland’s natural heritage by protecting and developing a living, thriving forest landscape where wildlife and people can flourish together. Not only did we donate 10,000 euros to support their wild seed collection project for enhancing the availability of more native trees, we also joined their seed collection day in the beautiful Glen Finglas in October 2024. During this event, 6.8kg of hawtorn berries were collected which could grow an estimated 11,000 hawtorn trees.

August 2024, BrITE doubled the funds raised by Haskoning’s team in the Philippines to aid families in the coastal village of Pamarawan who had been hit by devastating typhoon floods. The team has been collaborating with this community for over a year through its nature-based flood protection project. After reaching out to the village leaders, it became clear there was an urgent need for rice. On 9 September, 1,450 kg rice was handed over to the villagers.

June 2024, we donated 25,000 euros to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to support the victims of the war in Gaza. Whilst we normally support small-scale projects, we decided to make an exception here just as we did when we donated to UNHCR for the Ukrainian refugees, because we are keen to do what we can in this moment of severe need.

We are funding the drilling of a water borehole (May 2024) and purchase of a pump and tank to provide safe water to TLC Children’s Home in the under-resourced Sedibeng district in South Africa – suggested by our former colleagues from the Woodmead office. This will provide a reliable, safe water source for the Children’s home and surrounding community, unimpeded by load shedding and water shedding.