Music as a bridge to people’s hearts

|Categories: go4peace |
In connection with the children and youth contest go4peace, singer Emel talked to a school class about her experience as a Turkish woman in Switzerland. "When I was a child, people often wanted to know whether I felt Swiss or Turkish and often I felt torn between my cultural roots and my home country", explained Emel. Her father gave her good advice: Just call yourself 100 percent human being. Emel said she follows her father’s advice gladly and with conviction! Reports and images go4peace Read more [...]

Passionate commitment to young people

|Categories: go4peace |
Linda Fäh's work has enabled her to travel extensively and meet and appreciate people from various cultural backgrounds. In the context of the project contest go4peace, the former Miss Switzerland and current television presenter shares her experience with pupils of the upper school classes of the secondary school in Bischofszell. Linda is convinced that respectful relationships with others enable people to learn from each other. Reports and images go4peace Read more [...]

Women’s power in our education project in Guatemala

|Categories: Central America |
2011 brought change to the community of Santa Crux Quixaya in the department of San Lucas Tolimán. For the first time in its history, a woman was elected member of the local government authority. In the past decades, the community was run by two men clinging to power, today it is headed by a group of six, one of them a woman. Community members and teachers consider this development towards democracy and gender representation a result of PCF's education project because it strengthens young people Read more [...]

Dear reader

|Categories: Integration |
Young people dressed in national costume in the middle of the Appenzell countryside? Images such as this will be seen frequently in the course of the year, for example on our website, in our publications, in our new magazine or in the newsletter. The photo of Rara who proudly poses in Burmese traditional clothes surrounded by green Appenzell pasture is just one of them. Rara says she likes fondue very much, as if that was the most natural thing in the world! But not necessarily because of the cheese Read more [...]

Generous contribution for the Education Programmes

|Categories: Education |
Just as the first exchange group of 2012 arrived at the Pestalozzi Children’s Village from Ukraine, Executive Director Urs K. Egger received a cheque of 50,000 francs from the UBS Foundation for Social Issues and Education in support of PCF’s Education Programmes. Every year, over 2000 children and youth from South East Europe, the Chernobyl region and Switzerland take part in PCF exchange projects. Thank you very much! Read more [...]

Emergency project Guatemala: New toilets for girls and boys

|Categories: Central America |
Only a year after tropical storm Agathe caused devastation and loss of life in our Central American project country Guatemala, tropical storm 12 E brought wide-spread damage to the country's agriculture and buildings. A total of 66,120 families are affected by the disaster. The secondary school Julajuj Aq’ab’al in Santa Cruz Quixaya (Department San Lucas Tolimán) with whom our partner organisation Prodessa has been working together for nearly seven years was hit once again. Persistent torrential Read more [...]

Share your joy

|Categories: General |
A new smart phone, a game console, LEGO-pirates, a spider man costume? All over the world, this is the time when children write their wish list to Father Christmas.   However, many children's wishes cannot be fulfilled with money alone. Almaz in Ethiopia wishes she could go to school because she wants to be independent when she grows up and dreads the thought of having to marry to secure a living. Nuru in Tanzania is deaf and dumb. He desires to learn sign-language so he can communicate Read more [...]

You can make the difference

|Categories: Development cooperation |
Proud and happy! Tonight the students of our emPower leadership course received their diplomas. „You can make the difference“, was the message of the speakers at the graduation ceremony. Next week, the 20 young adults will return to their countries where they will pass on the knowledge and experience they have gained during their nine-month course in the Children’s Village. Read more about emPower Read more [...]
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