Donate to support our children

Our Mission, with your support, is to provide exceptionally bright children from backgrounds of extreme poverty with a child-centred education, that produces young adults capable of changing the world.

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Gifts collected by our UK and USA charities can be directed to any of our international partners. Contact Suzanne Davis suzanne@pestalozziworld.com to provide us with your preference.

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How your gift will transform lives:

Today our Pestalozzi World core programme involves the education of children in three ‘home from home’ Villages in India, Zambia and Nepal. Regarded as centres of excellence for child-centred care, our Villages allow us to cost effectively educate children in their country of origin.

Without the support of donors like you, our children would face High School completion rates of just 3% in Zambia and 13% in India (UNESCO UIS 2019z). Almost none would achieve a university qualification.

Thanks to our supporters, our Alumni are 3 times more likely in India and 11 times more likely in Zambia to achieve a university or college qualification than national averages.

None of this would be possible without our generous supporters.

Can you give a gift that will transform more lives, and help overcome barriers of poverty and gender prejudice?

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For further information please read our Introduction booklet here:

A worldwide challenge:

Schools are often inadequate or under-resourced.

Around 53% of children in low-and middle-income countries cannot read and understand a simple story by the end of primary school.

World Bank 2019a

Girls are often the first to lose their right to an education.

Globally, 1 in 5 women 20 to 24 years of age were married in childhood

UN SDG Snapshot 2020

Millions of children are forced to work to support their families.

Globally 63 million girls and 97 million boys were in child labour at the beginning of 2020.

Unicef and ILO 2020

Why we exist...

We exist because our supporters believe that children’s abilities are the same everywhere but opportunity is not. Our experts select the brightest 10-year-old children (two girls for each boy) among those held back by extreme rural poverty, displacement due to conflict, gender stereotypes, poor education and the pressure to work and earn a living.

With the encouragement of their families, we offer these children a life-transforming opportunity to leave behind these difficulties and welcome them to one of our Pestalozzi Villages.

You invest and educate

And they change their worlds

Graduation

When our children leave us at 18 they are fully equipped with a high quality education, exceptionally high grades, life skills and values to sustain them for their futures. They then go on to access university education themselves.

Our Alumni give back

Our monitoring demonstrates that our Alumni are becoming a new generation of teachers, health professionals, entrepreneurs, aid workers and leaders who are equipped with the tools they need to change the world, together.

We support our Alumni to stay connected with Pestalozzi World and each other even after graduation, and provide them with opportunities for mentoring, volunteering and career advice.

Our Alumni soon become role models in their communities, bringing about social change, and true ambassadors for the Pestalozzi values.

Please donate today!