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Alumni News

Summer 2003

Pestalozzi Overseas

Pestalozzi Asian Village

  • The photo on the front page shows the site of the Pestalozzi Asian Village. The location is Dehradun, North India

  • As from 2005, children of different Asian nationalities, including Indians, Nepalese and Tibetans, will live together in the Pestalozzi Asian Village

  • Modelled on the Pestalozzi Village UK, secondary level students who could not otherwise afford it will gain a good holistic education the Pestalozzi way — Head, Heart and Hands. They will live in national houses and learn vocational skills at the Pestalozzi Asian Village while attending good local schools (Dehradun is well known for its academic excellence)

  • The Pestalozzi Asian Foundations will select and look after the students for the Pestalozzi Asian Village

The Reunions

An opportunity to catch up with old friends from the Pestalozzi Village while finding out about the work of the Pestalozzi Foundations and how you can help support them,

or even set up a new one if there isn’t yet one in your country

Reunion 2004

Why not join the Reunion 2004

in mid February and see the progress on the Asian Village for yourself. For more information contact Joanna on info @ pestalozziworld.com

This year’s Asian Pestalozzi Reunion was held in Nepal in February 2003. It was hosted by the Nepal Pestalozzi Foundation - PAHAD

UK Alumni Party, 2003

The alumni party, held in London this May, gave UK-based graduates of the Pestalozzi Village the chance to meet old friends — bottom right Hendryk and Ngawang meet for the first time in 30 years! Others met fellow Pestalozzi alumni for the first time. There was also the chance to hear the latest news from Pestalozzi Village UK, Pestalozzi Overseas and the Pestalozzi Foundations


UK Reunion 2005 find out more on www.pestalozziworld.com

The Pestalozzi Asian Foundations

For more information on the Asian Foundations (which were set up and are run by Pestalozzi alumni) and how to join, please mail the contact people listed on the back cover of this Newsletter and visit www.pestalozziworld.com

Thai Pestalozzi Foundation

‘The Foundation for Further Education’ (FFE)

  • Established 1990

  • Currently supports 51 scholars, including university level students

  • Has 20 graduates

  • Runs annual Pestalozzi Camps for the Pestalozzi scholars in Thailand

  • Is on the Pestalozzi Asian Village Committee

Indian Pestalozzi Students' Trust (IPST)

    • Established 1995

    • Currently supports 7 scholars

    • Has 15 graduates

    • Looks after 16 POCT scholars at Gurukul School, Maharashtra

    • Runs annual Pestalozzi Camps for the Pestalozzi Scholars in India

    • Is on the Pestalozzi Asian Village Committee

Vietnamese Pestalozzi Foundation

    • Established 1996

    • Currently supports 4 scholars

Pestalozzi Tibetan Children's Trust

    • Established 1998

    • Currently supports 3 scholars

    • Has 1 graduate

    • Is on the Pestalozzi Asian Village committee

    Nepal Pestalozzi Foundation - PAHAD

    (Pestalozzi Association Helping Advance Development)

      • Established 2000

      • Currently supports 12 scholars, increasing by 4 per annum

      • Runs Annual Pestalozzi Camps for all Pestalozzi scholars in Nepal

      • Is on the Pestalozzi Asian Village Committee


    The Pestalozzi Zambian Children's Trust (PZCT)

    Established in 2001, PZCT oversees the running of the residential Pestalozzi Centre at Kasisi, near Lusaka with its 74 girls

     

    The girls attend local schools while the Pestalozzi Centre provides them with skills training. They learn not only the skills traditional to their rural backgrounds, such as farming, but also relevant new skills such as computing. The Centre provides a fine model for the Pestalozzi Asian Village (described on page 2)

    To find out more and to become involved in the PZCT please be in touch with Victoria Chivunga pestalozzi @ zamtel.zm

    Are you a Pestalozzi graduate

    from a country which has no Pestalozzi Foundation?

    Are you interested in helping to start one up?

    If so, please contact Joanna Nair on info @ pestalozziworld.com

    INFORMATION

    If you are on e-mail please ask for more information about the Pestalozzi Foundations from

    Sabir Vhora sfvhora @ hotmail.com (Indian)

    Hikmat Khadka hikmat @ mos.com.np (Nepalese)

    Jantrawan Chongnoncee jan @ kimeng.co.th (Thai)

    Phuntsok Tashi ptashila @ yahoo.co.in (Tibetan)

    Cuong Dang cuong.dang @ gs.com (Vietnamese)

    Victoria Chivunga pestalozzi @ zamtel.zm (Zambian)

    Do you have any news you would like to have published in the next Alumni News? Please send it

    and be in touch with any questions, by letter, fax or

    e-mail, with Joanna Nair (Pestalozzi Overseas Co-ordinator) at the address below

    Joanna Nair Fax / Phone: +44 1424 871 098

    POCT Office E-mail: info @ pestalozziworld.com

    Pestalozzi Village
    Sedlescombe
    Battle
    East Sussex TN33 0RR
    UK

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