SOFT Tulip Foundation

Mission

SOFT Tulip Foundation as a network organization of care providers in the Netherlands aims at furthering abroad the quality of life – comprising social inclusion – of persons with a disability in accordance with the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Vision

Rooted in basic values characteristic of Dutch culture like freedom, equality and solidarity, we assist our partners abroad to further in their own country the quality of life of persons with a disability. Doing so, we draw upon insight, knowledge and experience that have been accumulated within a strong and vibrant civil society encompassing the development of helping networks, the advocacy of the interests of persons with disabilities as well as the fostering of policy changes necessary to develop an inclusive society. We draw also upon insight, knowledge and experience gathered within our network of care providing organizations in the Netherlands. Simultaneously we learn with and from our partners to find solutions for challenges we are facing due partly to globalization and partly to local problems.

Network organization

Within the framework of SOFT Tulip several Dutch care providing organizations cooperate, employing altogether about ten thousand people, while their total annual budget amounts to approximately € 700 million. The network represents an expertise tank that enables us to strive at fulfilling our mission. Being member of the International SOFT Federation, SOFT Tulip relies also upon experts in other countries. While designing and implementing projects, it cooperates furthermore with other national and foreign non-governmental organizations.

The Dutch care providers cooperating within SOFT Tulip are

• Cordaan, Amsterdam
• De Trappenberg, Huizen
• Lelie zorggroep, Capelle aan den IJssel
• Pameijer, Rotterdam
• Steinmetz/De Compaan, The Hague
• Talant, Heerenveen
• Visio, Huizen
• Zuidwester, Middelharnis.

SOFT Tulip is member of the European Association of Service Providers for Persons With Disabilities, EASPD.