The Stamm Foundation was founded in August 1999 by Verena Stamm from Wiesbaden, Germany. Verena Stamm has been living in Burundi since 1972 and knows the Burundian way of life, traditions, culture, country and people, which is the best way to work directly with the people there and to be able to help them effectively.

Thanks to her training as a nurse and her skills in accounting and organization, she was able, for the most part, to take care of the work, organization and coordination of the foundation herself.  

The Foundation began by caring for the women and children who were still in the countless refugee camps during the civil war turmoil.

Since then, the foundation has grown and now takes care of several projects in several provinces of the country. The foundation shelters and helps street children, ex-child soldiers, AIDS and war orphans, rape victims, refugees and those excluded from society. Thanks to its projects, the foundation also offers training in teaching trades or in teaching the basic and post-fundamental system as well as pre-school education.