PestalozziWorld educating children for a better life

Annual Review 2017

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Above: Students at the PestalozziWorld Asian Village Cover (front): Students at the PestalozziWorld AfricanVillage

Cover (back): Students at the Asian Village celebrating Holi

PestalozziWorld Annual Review 2017

Contents What we do Review of the year Spotlight on students PestalozziWorld Impact Spotlight on alumni Funding Review

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What we do - PestalozziWorld Programmes

Our selective scholarships provide high quality education, housing and pastoral care to students from India, Nepal, Malawi and Zambia plus refugees from Tibet, Angola, Rwanda and the Congo.

438 students

Our non-selective mobile learning programme provides foundational maths and literacy education to students in rural areas. The project employed 34 PestalozziWorld alumni as coaches in 2017. 3900 students

Children’s Centres

Mobile Learning

Circle of Success

Through the Alumni Foundations we support the education of 20 students in Thailand and 74 students in Nepal.

94 students

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Review of the year

It has been another good year for PestalozziWorld. Most notably, the mobile learning programme which started with 2 centres in 2015 has expanded significantly and now has 13 rural centres in Zambia. The programme delivered by our partner Edulution teaches foundational maths and literacy via tablets and directly impacted 3900 children in 2017. The children’s centres in India, Nepal and Zambia provide a ‘head, heart and hands’ education for selected bright children from rural areas who join the centres to complete their secondary education while gaining the valuable experience of living in a caring multicultural environment. We continue to reach those children who are most in need, with students across all the programmes coming from low income families with many relying on subsistence farming with little or no extra money to put towards education. Our focus on girl’s education is still important as global figures show that the number of illiterate girls in Sub-Saharan Africa and South and West Asia is still higher than boys. By selecting double the number of girls for our scholarship programme we aim to encourage girl’s education. Research shows that better educated women tend to be healthier, marry at a later age, earn more and enable better healthcare and education for their children. With your continued support 2018 promises to be a very exciting year- many thanks to all our friends and supporters who help to make all of this possible.

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African Village -Student Spotlight

ONEAL MUSAADA

My name is Oneal Musaada, I am 12 years old and I am in grade 5. I am Congolese and I come from the Mayukwayukwa refugee camp in Kaoma, Western Province of Zambia. I have 3 brothers, Omeri, Omedy, and Omari. We had to run away from Congo because of the war. We started off going to Namibia. However, as my brothers and I did not have passports the immigration officials suspected my parents of child trafficking and arrested us all and sent us to prison for six months. Eventually we were taken to Mayukwayukwa camp where we given a small plot of land to build a house on. Life in the camp is not so good and finding food is very difficult. At home my mother sells vegetables. I like helping my mother with the housework and playing football with my brothers, I also like reading. I want to be a pilot when I finish school. My parents and I were very excited when I was selected for a scholarship at Pestalozzi African Centre. I promise to work very hard so that I can make them proud.

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Asian Village-Student Spotlight

My name is Kajal and I am one of the new students at the PestalozziWorld Asian Centre. My family is originally from North East India but my parents moved to Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, North India for greener pastures. They had nothing much in the way of work in their home village. They now work as labourers but earn very little. My family and I live by the roadside in a very basic rented room with no doors, windows or sanitation facilities. I feel very lucky to have been put forward by my school to take the test to join PestalozziWorld. When I first arrived at the Village, I was very shy and homesick but now I feel much happier. I am doing well with my studies and I really love singing and dancing. I recently sat school entrance tests for the Ann Mary School and can’t wait to start secondary school.

KAJAL KEWAT

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MABINA BARAM

My name is Mabina and I come from a small village in the Gorkha district in central Nepal. I live with my parents who are subsistence farmers along with two of my younger siblings. The flat we lived in collapsed during the earthquake in 2015 and since then we have been living in a tin shed in the fields which has been very difficult. I came to the Pestalozzi Children’s Education Centre, Pokhara in October, 2017. I was very quiet when I started but now I am feeling more confident and I have discovered a love for dance. I like the clean and peaceful environment of the Pestalozzi house the most. I am doing well with my studies and hope to start school soon once I have passed the entrance exam.

Pokhara Village: Student Spotlight

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Mobile Learning Spotlight THOMAS MWALE

My name is Thomas Mwale and I come from Lumezi in the Eastern Province of Zambia. Life at home was tough and I didn’t learn much at school. Fortunately in 2008 I was selected as a Pestalozzi scholar and I moved to the Pestalozzi African Village in Lusaka in 2009. In recognition of my leadership skills I was made a prefect and then became Head Boy. After I graduated I found out that Edulution, a partner of PestalozziWorld was looking for more educational coaches. I applied and was posted to Luangwa in 2016 to start a rural centre. After a while I settled into the job and became a Bronze star coach and then as I learnt fast I soon became a Silver Star Coach. I am now leading the project in Luangwa which has 6 centres and things are going really well. I would like to say thank you to PestalozziWorld for the wonderful sponsorship I was given, I will never forget the philosophy of ‘head, heart and hands’. I would also like to say thanks to Edulution as I have learnt a lot in the last few years. I am very happy here, helping my community.

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Students supported through Alumni Foundations

Nepal Thailand

In Nepal we supported 77 students at the Shree Sitaram School in Doti in the far West. The Nepal Pestalozzi Foundation also supported 50 students through their own fundraising programme.

In Thailand we supported 20 students through the Thai Pestalozzi Foundation, which also supported 80 students through their own fundraising initiatives.

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• We now have 1216 alumni from India, Nepal, the Tibetan communities, Malawi, Thailand and Zambia- many of whom have

gone on to higher education through scholarships and/or by working to raise funds for their studies. • Over 200 alumni have volunteered for PestalozziWorld, helping at our Children’s Centres, organising reunions, fundraising or

joining Boards and committees.

The PestalozziWorld Impact

Highest education level attained by the 648 surveyed PW alumni

50%

4%1%3%

30%

12%

Bachelor

Masters

PhD

Secondary school

Sixth form

Vocational/TechnicalDiploma

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My name is Martha Muswema. I grew up in Zambia and joined the Pestalozzi African Village in 2005 and left in 2011. I was fortunate to be given an opportunity to do my International Baccalaureate (IB) at Mahindra United World College of India for two years. In 2013 after my IB, I was accepted into Wartburg College of Waverly in Iowa where I completed my undergraduate bachelor’s degree in International Relations with a focus on Political Science. I am currently an intern for the Lutheran World Relief Corporation as a Program Assistant through the Wartburg Seminary and Lutheran Volunteer Corps. It’s a great experience for anyone looking to go into non-profit management. I have been involved with the US Pestalozzi Alumni team for the past three years when I started attending the reunions. I am currently part of the US PestalozziWorld Alumni Mentorship Committee. I am already excited about all the fun experiences that being on this team will bring.

MARTHA MUSWEMA Spotlight on Alumni

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I am Hemanta Tamang from Nepal, I was part of the 1st batch of students at the Pestalozzi Asian Centre in 2003. After completing my schooling at St Joseph’s in Dehradun, I went on to do my degree at the Institute of Hotel Management in Bangalore which is one of top 5 hotel management colleges in India. Having finished my course, I worked as an assistant in the Food and Beverage Service department for 2 years and learnt a lot. I have now started my own small Chinese restaurant by the name of Leung Fast Food in Bangalore, providing Chinese delicacies to the local community. I have been contributing to the circle of success by helping a fellow alumnus from the 3rd batch with funds for his college expenses and I will continue to do this until he graduates and then I plan to help others. Without the love and support from the Pestalozzi family my future and career would not be what it is now and I would like to thank everyone for helping me get a good education.

HEMANTA TAMANG Spotlight on Alumni

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My name is Anjana Kindo, I joined the Asian Village in 2004 from a small city of Jharkhand. Coming from a family of 7 it wasn’t easy for my parents to fund quality education for their children. Life took an unexpected turn when I was selected as a Pestalozzi scholar which totally transformed my life. After completing my secondary education, I went on to do a degree in English Literature at St Stephen’s College. I really feel the presence of a ‘head, heart and hands’ education in my life and since graduating I have been volunteering at the new Children’s Village in Pokhara, Nepal as an English teacher. I am also a proud member of the International Alumni Committee and I recently created a Facebook page to help Pestalozzi students with university admissions. I plan to spend my upcoming summer holidays encouraging inhabitants of remote areas around Jharkhand to recognise the importance of education.

ANJANA KINDO Spotlight on Alumni

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PestalozziWorld was established in 1995 to advance the education of children in Asia and Africa using the Pestalozzi principles of Head, Heart and Hands. PestalozziWorld Children’s Trust (PWCT) in the UK is the coordinating entity of PestalozziWorld, a working alliance of several organisations inspired by the educational philosophy and the life of the Swiss social reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827). The Pestalozzi Children’s Village Society in India and the Pestalozzi Zambia Children’s Trust are monitored regularly by the Trustees and audited locally. Annual scholarship costs were $1,400 (£1,100) a year per child at the Villages for board, travel, tuition and all other costs. Annual cost per student for the mobile learning programme is $120 (£92) a year. Total expenditure in 2017 was approximately $1.44million. Expenditure for capital, mobile learning centres and the Pestalozzi Education Centre of $0.82 million was funded primarily by the Pestalozzi Overseas Children’s Foundation in Switzerland. Our funding comes from the private sector, including the founders, directors and trustees, other individuals, private foundations, and corporate donors. Copies of the audited accounts are available on request from the respective offices. PWCT’s accounts are also available on the Charity Commission website (www.charitycommission.gov.uk). Registered fundraising charities operate in the USA, Switzerland and Ireland. The Swiss Trust makes grants directly to the national operating trusts, mainly in connection with the capital costs in Zambia and India, while the US and Irish funds are managed through the UK Trust. Trustees do not receive any remuneration or expense reimbursement from the Trust. All expenses for the fundraising and administration Trusts (including staff, travel and administration) are met by funds specifically provided by the Trustees or through investment income.

Funding review

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IRELAND

Pestalozzi Overseas Children’s Trust Ireland Ltd

Registered Charity CHY 17386, founded 2007

Ballin Temple, Ardattin, Co.Carlow

Contact: Pamela Butler, Director

+353 59 915 5037 pam@pestalozziworld.com

Directors: Pamela Butler,

Patrick Dawson, Daniel Feehan

USA

Pestalozzi US Children’s Charity Inc

Reg E I No 04-3407363, founded 1998

c/o Sandra Weiksner, 164 E 81st Street, New York

NY 10028-1804

Contact: Anthony Hagan

+1 (917) 512 3048 usa@pestalozziworld.com

Directors: Elizabeth Beim, Sir Richard Butler, Anthony Dub

Amy Hunter, David Langstaff, Sandra Weiksner

Advisory: Robert Baylis, William Mayer, Bruce McEver

Donald Miller, Deepak Parekh, Joseph Perella, George Weik-

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President Emeritus: Nigel Lovett

UK

PestalozziWorld Children’s Trust

Registered Charity No 1046599 (2018: 1172364) founded 1995

CAN Mezzanine, 32-36 Loman Street, London, SE1 0EH

Contact: Tanya Mowbray, Administrative Officer

+44 207 922 7716 tanya@pestalozziworld.com

Trustees: Lady Butler, John Dilger

Caroline Doggart, Kenneth Greatbatch,

Francois von Hurter, Simon Wakely

Advisory Directors: Karin Chammah, Usha Kumar,

Diana Macleod, Svante Pahlson-Moller, Gerard Silverlock

SWITZERLAND

Pestalozzi Overseas Children’s Foundation

Reg No CH-020.7.001.633-9, founded 2009

c/o Marcuard Family Office AG

Theaterstrasse 12, 8001 Zurich

Contact: Dr Peter Stocker, Director

+41 43 344 60 08 p.stocker@ marcuardfamilyoffice.com

Directors: Sir Richard Butler, Roderick Macleod,

Dr Peter Stocker, Francois von Hurter

Patrons: His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Thank you to all our donors and volunteers.

100% of your donations go directly to educating a child.

All our administration costs are paid for by trustees and directors.