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Housing Reno-Hope Award

A recognition for organisations creating additional housing through renovation for people in vulnerable situations

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Selection announced

Snapshot 2023

Check out the 2023 figures as well as the King Baudouin Foundation’s principal activities .

COV_3961_BaromètrePrécaritéEnergétique_2024 — Kaligram

Energy poverty barometer 2024

In 2022, 21.8 % of Belgian households were affected by energy poverty. The tenth Energy Poverty Barometer for Belgian households gives data by region and an analysis of trends.

ZOOM La précarité énergétique en Belgique 2009-2018 / ZOOM Energiearmoede in België 2009-2018

In Belgium today, one in five households lives in energy poverty. New figures, facts and analyses.

Ernest du Bois (Fund)

Social justice & poverty Education and the development of talents

Support for promising engineering students as well as for projects combatting water poverty.

Baan Vier (Fund Friends of)

Education and the development of talents Social justice & poverty

Philanthropists support Baan Vier projects with the aim of stimulating the motoric development of children and increasing their self-reliance in the water.

College of Europe (Fund Friends of)

Education and the development of talents Social justice & poverty

Philanthropists provide a full or partial scholarship for a student studying diplomacy, economics, politics or law at the Europa College.

When only solidarity enables you still to eat

24 03 2023

Social justice & poverty

In response to the challenges facing the food aid sector, the KBF is supporting 71 organisations, for a total of €500,000.

20221205_AcceuilMontfort — B. D’Alimonte

Energy crisis: almost 3 million euros in support for around 500 organisations fighting poverty

06 12 2022

Social justice & poverty

Following the Energy Crisis call, the KBF has been supporting almost 500 organisations that fight poverty, providing a total of almost 3 million euros.

Homelessness: establishing numbers to better fight the problem

17 03 2022

Social justice & poverty

Results of homelessness counts, organised at the end of 2021 on the initiative of the KBF in Charleroi, Namur, the southern part of West Flanders and the Vilvoorde area.

Building a home for all in Forbidden Colours

Inclusion

"What I see with Forbidden Colours is this same desire to make sure that we can achieve this space where people are not excluded, where it's not ‘us against them’ but ‘what connects us to them’?"

Lukas Dhont

At Accueil Montfort, women in situations of exclusion find help and comfort

Inclusion

"This support helps soften the blow and avoids us having to increase the residents’ financial contribution.”

Elisabeth Deladrier

Director, Accueil Montfort

More than a roof over your head

Housing

In late 2019 Zinab, from Syria, moved with her children into a home in Boechout. A good reason for a festive diner.

KBF in Belgium

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