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donations support children.
Administration is paid by trustees.
Break the Cycle of Poverty
Create the Circle of Success
We enable education for poor children in poor countries. The education develops "hands, heads and hearts" - teaching practical skills, technical knowledge and empathy and ethics or "how to be a good citizen".
Children come from very poor, mostly rural families, and from amongst the brightest students so that they will have a real chance of succeeding. The children are selected on the basis of two girls for every one boy to try to redress the traditional imbalance.
Donations are used to provide scholarships to poor children aged between 8 and 18 allowing them to attend school. Without the scholarship their families are unable to send them to school and the alternative is usually to work as labourers.
The children are selected on the basis of ability as well as need. Many scholars excel and are able to obtain further scholarships to attend university (eg Harvard) and obtain professional qualifications. Our scholars graduate with secondary education diplomas, a range of practical skills that they can apply in their communities and the benefit of a nurturing PestalozziWorld experience which has taught them to care for others. They are then in a good position to help the communities and countries from which they originated. Generally scholars remain in their own countries, able to support themselves and their families and also make an effective contribution to the development of their communities and countries.
Crucial to our approach is the Circle of Success, whereby alumni set up foundations in their own countries and help educate new generations of disadvantaged children.
It currently costs $1,200 per year to house and educate each of our children.
All of your donations go directly to helping children. We have a zero
administration cost policy. All administration costs are paid by Trustees
or special donors who have specifically donated funds for administration.
Therefore your donations are not needed to pay staff, postage or travel
and can go directly to helping children. All our administrative
costs are borne by the Trustees and sponsors so that every penny we receive
in donations goes towards educating the children. 
PestalozziWorld, established in 1995 (as Pestalozzi Overseas Children’s
Trust) now includes: Hostels and Skills Centres; International Villages
in India and Zambia; fundraising organisations in the United States, Switzerland
and Ireland; and Alumni groups for Indians, Malawians, Nepalese, Thais,
Tibetans and Zambians.
We are focusing efforts in India and Zambia (International Children's Village March 2010 update here), although we have alumni foundations also working in Nepal, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam.
Alumni of PestalozziWorld programmes often give back directly by establishing to continue the scholarship programme for others in their countries.
We currently have about 500 children in scholarship programmes and over 1,000 benefitting from related projects.
Please support these children with your donation. This page gives details of how you can contribute. Thank you.
You can read more about the work we do in the pages About Us (which outline our history and organisation) and Circles of Success (which tell about our scholars, projects and foundations).
Videos of our work: video 1 (97 MB, 8 minutes, avi format), video 2 (167 MB, 14 minutes, avi format), video 3 (160 MB, 11 minutes, avi format). You may need special audio video codecs to play these files on your computer. If you would like a DVD for use in a DVD player, please contact us. Thank you.
Alumni Network, Organisation, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, History, Links, Site Navigation, Contact.
