The Story So Far...

The Pestalozzi Overseas Children's Trust and the Pestalozzi US Children's Charity Inc. (together referred to as Pestalozzi Overseas) were founded to advance the education of deprived children -especially girls - in Africa and Asia through holistic Pestalozzi principles of Head, Heart and Hands. It is unique in that Pestalozzi Overseas provides a practical secondary education for children aged 10 to 16. The children, in turn, go on to form their own foundations across the globe and support yet more children through education in the Pestalozzi philosophy. These foundations are crucial to the trust's belief in providing a catalyst that leads to self-sufficiency and one generation nurturing a further generation in the Pestalozzi Movement.
It is a visible and tangible circle of success.

HEAD
At present, the Trust directly funds 200 children from India, Malawi, Nepal and Zambia and partially funds 50 children from Thailand at schools and colleges in their own countries, and a farther 50 Tibetan students who are educated at the Tibetan Children's village in Dharamsala. In addition to these scholars, there are 129 graduates of the Trust nine of whom have or are taking the International Baccalaureate at the Pestalozzi International Village in Sedlescombe, Sussex.
HEART
Pestalozzi Overseas supports six Pestalozzi Foundations in India, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, Zambia and the Pestalozzi Tibetan Children's Trust in India. Together these foundations support a further 150 scholars. Pestalozzi Overseas contributed funds towards hostels for 124 girls at Budhanilkantha School, Kathmandu, Nepal, 25 girls at the Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala, North India and 40 girls at Shri Sita Ram School in West Nepal — currently under construction.
HANDS
Skill training centres provide the children with practical life skills that they can use when they return to their villages. These range from IT and business management to paper making, weaving and farming. Pestalozzi Centres have been set up at the Shri Sita Ram School in Nepal, the Kasisi Centre in Zambia and the Budhanikantha School, Nepal. The latter is progressing successfully towards its target of achieving self-sufficiency this year.

An Exciting New Chapter..............

THE PESTALOZZI ASIAN CHILDREN'S VILLAGE

Graduates of the Pestalozzi International Village in Sedlescombe, England, some of whom run the Pestalozzi Asian Foundations in their own countries, have a dream.

Their dream is to establish an international community for underprivileged Indian, Nepalese and Tibetan children in India. To provide a home where they can live and leam together. A place, where along with regular secondary schooling, they will also be given vocational training and inspired by life values that in turn will lead them to nurture yet more children in their time.

The Pestalozzi Asian Children's Village is more than just a dream.

In 2003 the trustees of Pestalozzi Overseas Children's Trust contributed funds to buy a site on which to locate the village. Dehradun in Northern India was chosen because of the excellence of the schools in the locality.

The Asian Foundations will help to select and look after the students. They will attend local schools but will live in national houses in order to retain their culture. They will acquire skills to support and feed themselves.

The children will be selected on the basis of 2 girls to every 1 boy.They are bright but deprived children, usually from a rural background, who have a family that they can help.

It takes less than £700 or $1000 per annum per child to provide the best education and all a child's needs.

And in 2005 the Pestalozzi Asian Village intends to open its doors to 24 children, building up to a total of 200 children.

The construction of the village requires substantial donations.

We know it can be done! Five years ago we built the Pestalozzi Centre in Zambia, Africa.

The Building Bricks

Pestalozzi Overseas will buy the site of The Pestalozzi Asian Children's Village with £100,000 contributed by the Trustees. Total funds required are £450,000 or US$725,000.

At the moment it's just a piece of land. A blank canvas. It represents the courage of formerly deprived children who were given an opportunity in life at the Pestalozzi International Village in Sedlescombe, England. They grasped that opportunity with both hands and graduated. And having returned home to their own countries, they have been inspired with a desire to pass on that opportunity to further generations, and to create a children's village in India.

The village will start with three homes, one each for the Indian, Nepalese and Tibetan children, with their own housemother, so that their unique culture will be nurtured. In time and with more resources we will build more homes. There will be a skills centre based on the one we run at the Budhanikantha School in Nepal where children can leam skills to enable them to help their communities improve their appalling conditions.

This piece of land represents the canvas for the circle of success. The picture will be etched out by children who were given a chance by people like you, and who want to pass on the same chance to other children. It is an act of faith. It represents children's lives, and education. And hopes and values. It's their future in your hands.

Running costs will initially be shared by Pestalozzi Overseas and the Pestalozzi Asian Foundations. The Foundations will ultimately cover all costs.

Please help us to complete our circle of success by building the bricks of our Asian Village.

Your contribution

Builder
Donor's Plaque
Name a Dormitory
Name a House
Village Sponsor

£15 or $25 a month direct debit
£250 or $400 plus
£5,000 or $8,000
£50,000 or $80,000
£150,000 or $240,000

How to Give

All administration costs of Pestalozzi Overseas are covered by the trustees so that every penny raised goes directly to supporting and providing educational facilities for the children. Please make your cheque payable to the Pestalozzi Overseas Children's Trust or Pestalozzi US Children's Charity Inc. and send it to us at:

Pestalozzi Overseas Childrens Trust
(Reg Charity 1046599)
51 Thurloe Square
London SW7 2SX
UK
Phone +44 (0) 20 7581 0101
Fax + 44 (0) 20 7581 9069

Pestalozzi US Children's Charity
(Reg E I 04-3407363)
c/o Mr Nigel Lovett
RP&C International
22nd Floor
565 Fifth Avenue
New York City
NY 10017
USA
Phone + 1 (212) 972 7008
Fax + 1 (212) 687 9266