The Farrar Foundation
The Farrar Foundation was established in 2011 by Jeremy Farrar and Christiane Dolecek. We are a small family charity with the ambition to make a difference to people’s lives through programmes that support education, health, science or recreational activities.
Our programmes are focused on South East Asia and in particular Viet Nam and Nepal. The founders have a long-standing association with both Viet Nam and Nepal and it is hoped that through the Foundation they, their children, and others may become involved in the work of the Foundation and further its aims.
The Farrar Foundation was inspired by the lives of the parents of the founders and their own experiences of working in Viet Nam and Nepal. Our logo takes its inspiration from one of the favourite poems of Eric and Anne Farrar – Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson
Targeted, established partnerships.
The Foundation has now and will in future focus on a small number of established partnerships and will make more substantial awards for three yearsto allow long term planning by our partners and the foundation and we hope greater impact.
In 2020 we made multi-year awards to the Quy Vuot Kho Foundation in Viet Nam, the Mountain Medicine Society of Nepal, the Birat Nepal Medical Trust, the Swasthya Foundation of Nepal and the Africa Research Excellence Fund. These three-year awards have refocussed our work to provide opportunities and a way into education, research, the arts or sport for young people.
We are particularly committed to opportunities for a diverse and inclusive community and will report every year on issues of diversity, inclusion and culture in all our work and that of our partners. We are delighted to report that over the first ten years the foundation has facilitated over fifty percent of all awards to women, in Asia, Africa and the UK.