Bishnu Thapa NEPALESE ALUMNUS

B ishnu graduated

from Harvard with a

BA in Economics, after

which he worked as Junior Professional Associate for

World Bank Nepal. He is

currently doing a Masters in Economics and Public

Policy at Woodrow School

of Public and International A f f a i r s , P r i n c e t o n

University.

Bishnu became part of PestalozziWorld in 1996 when he

was selected for a scholarship at Budhanilkantha

School in Kathmandu, Nepal. He secured a further

scholarship from Pestalozzi International Village Trust

(PIVT) for an IB, before moving to the US for higher

studies at Harvard and Princeton.

In 2008, Bishnu spent two months volunteering at the

Pestalozzi Children’s Village Society (PCVS) in Dehradun,

India. He has been actively involved in US Alumni

Reunions of PestalozziWorld, helping organise

fundraising events and participating in selecting new

scholars for PestalozziWorld. He is also an Executive

Member and Treasurer of PAHAD, the Nepalese

Foundation of PestalozziWorld alumni.

Gayatri Singh INDIAN ALUMNA

G ayatri is Project

A d m i n i s t r a t o r a t Pestalozzi Children’s Village Society (PCVS), Dehradun. She

has been in this role since 2007.

She also acts as Housemother for older PCVS students and organises extra curricular

activities for all the students.

Between 2004 and 2006 Gayatri taught English and

Science to POCT students at Gurukul Vidya Vinaya

Sabha near Pune, where she also organised summer

camps for the Indian POCT scholars. This was soon

after her graduation from Ranchi Women’s College

with a BSc in Zoology.

During holidays at Dehradun Hills Academy, where she

was a POCT scholar between 1992 and 2000, Gayatri

used to do voluntary work for various orphanages in India.

She is now an active member of Indian Pestalozzi

Students Trust (IPST), handling publicity and

fundraising, for which her training in rural development

and IT has come in handy.

Grace Mwenya ZAMBIAN ALUMNA

G race came into the

P e s t a l o z z i W o r l d family as a scholar at Kasisi Basic School in Lusaka in

2001 and passed her GCE ‘O’ levels in the first division

from Kasisi Girls Secondary School in 2007.

After a short course which led to a Certificate in

Introduction to Computers, she started working for PestalozziWorld Zambia.

Grace began working for

PestalozziWorld Zambia in the

capacity of Tuckshop Sales Lady

before taking up her current

responsibilities in the organisation

as Metal Workshop Manager and

Alumni Secretary.

These roles require competence in

diverse areas like accounting,

c o s t i n g , p u r c h a s i n g ,

stocktaking, sales, marketing,

qua l i t y c on t ro l , r ec o rd

maintenance and event

management.

Grace has recently started a BA

in Ecomomics at the University

of Lusaka.

Supak Toppalai THAI ALUMNA

S upak is a member of

the PestalozziWorld

Scholarship Selection sub

committee. She assesses scholars at the selection stage

and follows up with monitoring

of their performance once selected. She also gives them

support in a pastoral role.

Co-ordinating with the institutions at which the

students study, Supak reports to the committee

secretary and makes appropriate recommendations.

The picture below shows Supak (seated extreme left) during one of the many PestalozziWorld events she has been actively participating in ever since she was selected to be a PestalozziWorld scholar in 1995.

After her secondary school, she went on to Rajabhat Mahasarakham University in Thailand from where she graduated with a BA in English in 2004. She then went on to work with Samet Island Tour Company Ltd. as Manager Administrator for a few years, before leaving for the US to study at the English Institute of Westchester Community College in New York. Returning to her home country in 2010, Supak worked for 3 years with LJ Biz Company in Reservation and Sales, and is now an Administrator and Accountant at Nadeara White Perfect Co. Ltd. in Sumuprakarn Province in Thailand.

Tenzin Namgyal TIBETAN ALUMNUS

T ennam to his friends,

Tenzin Namgyal is now Senior Analyst in the Investment Management

Division of Goldman Sachs, after a 3 year stint at State

Street Corporation in New York City as Hedge Fund Accountant.

Originally from Tibet, Tennam migrated to India in 1992,

and became a PestalozziWorld Scholar soon after at the

Tibetan Children’s Village in Dharamsala, India.

After school, Tennam was selected by the Pestalozzi

Children’s Village Trust (PIVT), UK, for a scholarship for

further education. Completing his IB at Hastings College,

UK, he went on to do Business Administration at Berea

College, Kentucky, specialising in Accounting and Finance.

Tennam has been an active member of the PestalozziWorld

Family, helping organise local reunions for alumni who live

in and around New York city. In 2011, he helped organise

a US PestalozziWorld alumni reunion.