India
The Indian Pestalozzi Students' Trust
The Indian Pestalozzi Students' Trust (IPST) was established in 1995.
The aim of the Indian Pestalozzi Students' Trust is to "promote education
in the home country by spreading the Pestalozzi concept through the Alumni
of the (UK) Pestalozzi Children's Village".
The Trust is currently concentrating its fund-raising activities on the Pestalozzi Asian Children's Village in Dehradun. Each year, 8 Indian children will join children from Tibetan refugee communities and from Nepal to attend some of the best day schools in the city for 6 years (Classes 6-12). By 2010 the Village will be supporting 50 Indian children. All donations made to IPST will be contributed directly to Indian children's education at the Village. For more information, please contact Mrs Uma Uniyal, IPST c/o the Pestalozzi Children's Village Society uma_nyl @ yahoo.co.in
The Trust currently looks after 22 students. 7 of these students are funded by IPST and 15 by POCT.
The longer term targets of the Trust are to be sponsoring 50 students, to have a regular newsletter, and to develop a fund raising programme.
For more information on the Indian Pestalozzi Students Trust please contact Sabir Vhora at sfvhora @ hotmail.com.
Gurukul School, Maharashtra
POCT is sponsoring the secondary education of 19 children to attend the
Gurukul School, a Marathi-medium boarding school,in Lonavla, India.
Children are selected from surrounding rural districts, and attend the
school from classes 6-10. Extra classes in English are laid on for
the POcT scholars, and in 2005, Gurukul teachers also organised a month-long
camp for the scholars.
 The Pestalozzi scholars of Gurukul School. |
 A group of Gurukul students after playing cricket. |
Activities & News
News
So far the Indian Pestalozzi Students Trust has completed the sponsorship of 15 children and is currently sponsoring 7. Two of these children are in Maharashtra and five of these children are in Himachal Pradesh, looked after by Yashpal Kapoor.
The responsibility for the India Foundation being taken by the younger generation of alumni.
If you have any contributions, please contact Sabir Vhora at sfvhora @ hotmail.com.