Projects
- Pestalozzi Asian Village
- Pestalozzi Home, Tibetan Children's Village (in Dharamsala, India)
- Pestalozzi Centre Budhanilkantha School, Nepal
- Budhanilkantha Girls Hostel, Nepal
- Vocational Activities in Shri Sita Ram School, Far West Nepal
- Pestalozzi Centre, Kasisi, near Lusaka, Zambia
Pestalozzi Asian Village
Please download the latest brochure on the Asian Village here. (It is in Adobe pdf format.)
The Pestalozzi Children's Village Society in Dehradun is in charge of establishing and running the first Pestalozzi international village outside Europe.
Completion of the land purchase is set for the end of October 2005, and building work for the purpose-built village will start soon after. It is planned to accommodate up to 192 children from India, Nepal, and Tibet and possibly a fourth country in future. The students will be sponsored to attend good local secondary schools.
The first intake of students arrived in September 2004, and were recently
joined by another 26. Currently there are 31 girls and 19 boys - 18 Indian,
16 Nepalese and 16 Tibetan. They
are living together in two houses, Pestalozzi House and Foundation House,
in Dehradun, under the care of Housemothers. The new intake of children
are receiving intensive tuition in order to prepare them for entry into
class 6 (the first year of secondary school) of good local English medium
schools in April 2006, whilst the first intake are now settled into 7
local schools, with whom Pestalozzi Children's Village Society has established
good links. The children are also provided with a range of extra-curricular
activities, such as conversational English, carpentry, gardening and computing.
POCT is sponsoring the construction of the facilities and the Foundations will eventually sponsor all running costs. The foundations will be responsible for all aspects of the village once it is up and running.
Tibetans
(in exile in India)
The Pestalozzi House at the Tibetan Children's Village near Dharamsala,
the construction of which was funded by POCT, provides accommodation for
25 students. Phuntsok Tashi, a former Pestalozzi Village student,
who is tireless in helping other Tibetan refugees, is seen here with his
youngest son. He is now the Project Director of Pestalozzi Children's
Village Society.
Nepal
Pestalozzi Centre Budhanilkantha School, Kathmandu, Nepal
The Pestalozzi Centre was set up in Budhanilkantha School in 1996 with
assistance from POCT to provide hands-on experience for the students.
The Centre covers an area of 60 'ropanis' (3 hectares of land) in the
school compound. Mr. DK Shrestha, the Agriculture teacher, is the Pestalozzi
Centre Manager. A student committee helps to run the centre. It is now
fully self-sufficient.
The Pestalozzi Vocational Centre is used by almost all the children in the school, as a mini-farm growing vegetables and plants. A micro-hydro plant for educational purposes is at the Centre, as well as facilities for teaching computing, sewing and carpentry among other vocational skills.
For more information go to the Nepal section.
Budhanilkantha Girls Hostel
POCT has helped fund a Girls' Hostel at Budhanilkantha School. This was completed in the spring of 1999 and has been in use since the new academic year began in July 1999, housing 124 girls.
Shri Sita Ram School, Far West Nepal
A Vocational Centre has been established at Shri Sita Ram School. The Vocational Centre concentrates on vegetable production as the area of greatest need. There is also a fruit orchard.
A self-catering hostel, to accommodate 40 girls, has been built. It is half funded by POCT, with contributions from the British Embassy Nepal and the lcoal community. It was completed in June 2003.
The project has been underway at the school since 1997. Please read more here.
Zambia
Pestalozzi Centre, Kasisi, near Lusaka, Zambia
In 1999 the Pestalozzi Children's Centre, near Lusaka was built to accommodate 80 girls. 80 now live in the Centre, where they learn skills such as sewing, knitting and farming that will help promote self-sustainability and lead to self-employment.
For more, go to the Zambia section.