Our Work
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".
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. They are then in a good position to help the communities and countries from which they originated.
We are focusing efforts in India and Zambia, although we have alumni foundations also working in Nepal, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam.
We help 2 girls for every 1 boy because females are most at risk and can make the biggest improvements in their community.
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.
Alumni of PestalozziWorld programmes often give back directly by establishing foundations to continue the scholarship programme for others in their countries.
We currently have about 350 children in scholarship programmes and over 800 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.