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How do gender roles come about, and what is needed to achieve genuine equality? Sixth-form students from Blumenau in St. Gallen are exploring stereotypes, boundaries and social diversity as part of the media education project ‘Let’s Talk About Gender’. In their own radio programme, they challenge prejudices and speak out about what matters to them.

Twelve years ago, the Pestalozzi Children’s Foundation closed its last residential home. Since then, no children or young people have lived permanently in Trogen. Nevertheless, the Children’s Village remains a vibrant centre for educational work, where young people from all over the world come together. Damian Zimmermann, Head of Education and a member of the Executive Board, explains how the Children’s Village’s work has developed over the last few years and where the focus lies today.

For a week, the Pestalozzi Children’s Village will be the meeting place for around 150 young people from ten European countries. Through workshops, shared daily life and encounters that transcend national borders, 17-year-old Gosia discovers new perspectives on herself, on others and on the world.

Localisation is a key principle underpinning the work of the Pestalozzi Children’s Foundation. It involves placing local stakeholders at the centre and specifically strengthening their responsibility, skills and scope for action.

Haregewein Ashenafi is the managing director of the local partner organisation ECD, with which we have been working since August 2019. In this interview, she explains how the Ethiopian organisation has developed during this time and what role SKP has played in this.

Eight symbols that have never existed before: at the Landsgemeindeplatz in Trogen, the exhibition ‘i›we‹i – between two alphabets’, which opened on 12 September 2026, shows what happens when young people combine two alphabets to create a single new symbol.

The national cross-sectoral mechanism for protecting children from violence in the school environment strengthens child protection in schools through coordinated measures taken by various state and civil society actors.

The inclusion of children with special educational needs. That is the overarching aim of our project in North Macedonia.

For the past six years, we have been working closely with our local partner organisation, the Centre for Interactive Pedagogy in Serbia, to specifically prevent and reduce the segregation of Roma children.