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Annual Reports - Round up
Annual Report 2011 - Measuring the impact: What does it mean?
Children, mothers, fathers, siblings, teachers and education authorities: Almost half a million people worldwide are involved in projects of the Pestalozzi Children’s Foundation. But what does this number actually mean? Which impact do our projects really have? Our Annual Report 2011 gives the answers.
Annual Report 2011 (PDF, 12 MB) | (PDF, 3 MB)
Detailled annual accounts 2011 (PDF, in German, 2.4 MB)
Open in issuuAnnual Report 2010 - Obstacle race to education
Florentino's older sister has dropped out of school. He does not want to follow her example. On the contrary, he wants to continue his education and become a teacher in his local community. If he succeeds, he would be the first young man in his village to complete school. Florentino’s story shows that ethnic minorities and poor people have to overcome numerous hurdles to get an education, with lack of money, awareness and opportunity being some of the causes. Children and youth should be confident, aware of their rights and able to defend their interests in an independent and self-determined manner. The Pestalozzi Children’s Foundation supports them in doing so. Our Annual Report 2010 describes obstacles which young people such as Florentino have to overcome in order to gain access to education.
On air - Annual report 2009
In 2009, a total of 296'381 children and adolescents participated in one of our numerous projects all over the world. They attended school in Tanzania, acquired knowledge via radio in Honduras, discussed ways of peaceful coexistence in Serbia and discovered a place of education for humanity in the Children's Village in Trogen. This year's report presents a radio and school project in Switzerland, namely in Müllheim in the canton of Thurgovia. See our annual reports for further details.
Annual Report 2008 - Guatemala - Trogen - Guatemala
Agustín stands in front of his class in Pueblo Nuevo – the "New Village". His students are future teachers who have just returned from a four-month practical term during which they taught primary school children. The two Guatemalans Agustín and Yeshing were the first students to join the 2007 training course emPower in the Children’s Village in Trogen. Today, they teach young people in Guatemala ...
The special flair of the Children’s Village
If he did not have a 10 hour-workday with the odd working weekend added on top, he would dearly like to spend more time preparing gourmet food. Urs Karl Egger, Executive Director since June 2008, explains why he loves to look out of his office window.
Annual Report 2007 - Laos & Thailand
Distances are large in Laos. It is a nine hours’ drive from Luang Prabang, the tourist city in Laos for all purposes, and Long, 400 kilometres away, in the northernmost part of the country, just one hill away from the Chinese border. The drive to the project area takes another four hours...
Happiness can be extremely short moments
"Whenever happiness really means happiness; many books have been written about this", says Roland Jeanneret, the Swiss Solidarity's "voice", in the Annual Report 2007. In the years from 1991 to 2007, the Foundation received 3.5 million francs for more than 30 projects in development.
Annual Report 2006 - A journey through Eritrea
"Is that a school?" Rehaset’s index finger moves on the postcard to a house in the old town of Berne in Switzerland. Immediately she is surrounded by a crowd of children...
Unique features of the culture
"We are constantly talking about globalisation and multiculturality, but there are very few places like here where young people from different countries can live and study with their peers, exchange their views and learn from each other." Gianina Cernescu is one of the first students to complete the training course "emPower" held in the Children's Village in Trogen.
Annual Report 2005 - Romania
Some 15 years after the fall of Ceauçescu, whose communist regime held the country in grip for 24 years, the gap between the rich and the poor is bigger than ever. Today, the country is ruled by Ceauçescu’s second guard who had already enjoyed privileges during the communist era. A new class has emerged: the nouveau riches...
Games and sport as practice for life
One of the highlights in 2005 was the youth camp “Play for Peace” held in the Children's Village as a contribution to the United Nations Year of Sport and Physical Education. Some 200 children and adolescents from 20 different nations and 32 peers from the Children’s Village and Switzerland, representing a further ten nations, practised the social values of games and sport.
Annual Report 2004 - Living in the Children's Village
5340 minus 160? With one click of the mouse the computer immediately confirms the answer: 5180. Joël was right. At school this morning, he has already worked on twelve maths problems and got eight of them right. The twelve-year-old opens his diary. “I’ve finished my homework”. Slouched over his desk, Joël writes slowly. While staring out the window, he tries to find the words to express himself. This young boy finds German difficult...
Children have rights
The Child Rights Network Switzerland coordinates the activities of nongovernmental organisations in the areas of child rights and children’s policy since 2003. The Pestalozzi Children’s Foundation led the coordinating office in the beginning.
Annual Report 2003 - Central America
“Piedra pintada” means painted stone. The municipality was given this name be-cause of its lime deposits. A large part of the population earns its living from the pro-duction of lime. But it is back-breaking work. The raw material – a black stone – is placed in a lime kiln, where it is baked for three days under constant heat provided by a sawdust-fuelled fire. The stone turns white and crumbles to dust, but the smoke emissions are black. Children help their fathers...
A day in the power_up radio studio
No lunch break today. After 15 minutes, they are back in the studio, in front of the computer, notebook and pen at the ready, and locked in discussion. One of the presenters is twelve-year-old Miloś. “The programme today is about love and friendship. A topic I’m sure you know something about, Sasha...
Annual Report 2002 - Serbia
“Uocite razlike” or “Notice differences - and respect them. If it were not for differences, we would be all the same”, screams this brightly coloured poster. For society, for the country. With war and fear never far from their thoughts, the people of Serbia approach each other gingerly. So much has been destroyed...
Annual Report 2001 - Interview with Markus Mader
- Markus Mader
Thanks to its family-like structures, the Pestalozzi Village enables foreign children and adolescents to integrate over time into Swiss society. Markus Mader, in 2001 the new chief executive, thinks that the Foundation should reposition itself and its role in the Village.....
