30 years of working abroad: The Foundation celebrates milestone event by showing glimpses of its work

September 21th, 2012, Pestalozzi Children's Village, Trogen: "International Programmes: 30 years of working abroad" Thirty years ago, the Pestalozzi Children's Foundation launched its first development programme by setting up aid projects for children in Lebanon, India, Bangladesh and Ethiopia. Today, we are active in twelve countries worldwide, seeking to ensure that children and youth have access to good quality education and intercultural education programmes that promote peaceful cohabitation. Programme Read more [...]

Let’s make noise for Children and for their Rights!

As we like to involve the children and youth staying in the Pestalozzi Children's Village, we will celebrate the day of Children's Rights on Wednesday, November 16th  (the official day is on November 20th). A big market of Children's Rights will be hold in the Village, with different acitivities. The day will end with a flashmob. For 3 minutes, we all - employees, children, youth - will join on the village square and make noise for the Children's Rights with different instruments, voice and other Read more [...]

Eine Reise in die süd- und mittelamerikanische Filmwelt

Zum dritten Mal: Leinwand frei für eine fünftägige Reise in die mittel- und südamerikanische Filmwelt vom 16. bis 20. November. Die «Pantalla» (Leinwand) des Kino corso füllt sich wieder mit aktuellen Kino- und Kurzfilmen aus Lateinamerika – alle in der Originalversion sowie zum ersten Mal in St. Gallen präsentiert. Zum ersten Mal wird das Festival von einem Rahmenprogramm im Kaffeehaus und in der Casa Latinoamericana begleitet. Mit Unterstützung der Stiftung Kinderdorf Pestalozzi. Programmzeitschrift Read more [...]