Pestalozzi International

Pestalozzi International Nurturing Environment
With child-centred care looking after their emotional wellbeing, encouraging them to take care of others and inspiring their ambition.

Pestalozzi International provides life-changing education to disadvantaged children in the Global South, focusing on vocational skills, emotional well-being, and social mobility. In poor rural areas of India, Nepal and Zambia our experts work with communities to select the brightest 10 -year-old children (two girls for each boy) among those held back by extreme rural poverty, displacement due to c

onflict, gender stereotypes, poor education and the pressure to work and earn a living. With the encouragement of their families, we offer these children the opportunity to leave behind these difficulties, and move to one of the Pestalozzi Villages where they receive:

Excellent Education
At high quality local schools, living in a conducive environment for learning and receiving additional academic support from staff and peers. Practical Life Skills
Children grow food and take pride in keeping their village clean and tidy. They learn crafts to develop skills they can use in future life.

Every young person begins life with potential. Too often, it's opportunity that is unequally distributed.For millions of...
12/08/2026

Every young person begins life with potential. Too often, it's opportunity that is unequally distributed.

For millions of young people around the world, the future is shaped long before they have the chance to shape it themselves. Not because they lack ability, but because poverty limits access to the opportunities, encouragement and belief that allow potential to flourish.

At Pestalozzi International, we exist to change that.

We identify young people with the talent, character and ambition to lead, then nurture them through an education that develops the whole person: Head, Heart and Hands. Because leadership is about far more than academic achievement. It is about learning to think independently, care deeply, and act with purpose.

On International Youth Day, we're celebrating the young people who are already demonstrating what becomes possible when potential is recognised and invested in. Their leadership doesn't begin when they leave school. It is shaped every day through the relationships they build, the values they develop, and the choices they make to strengthen the communities around them.

When we invest in young people, we don't simply change individual futures. We help nurture the compassionate, enterprising leaders who will strengthen their communities, contribute to their nations, and shape a better future for others.

Join us in nurturing the next generation of leaders.

👉 Donate today: https://www.pestalozzi.international/donate

India is in the middle of one of the largest clean energy transitions in the world. Sumit, a Pestalozzi International al...
28/07/2026

India is in the middle of one of the largest clean energy transitions in the world. Sumit, a Pestalozzi International alumnus from India, is doing research at the University of Warwick that sits right at the heart of it.

Invited to Warwick as part of their Undergraduate Overseas Visiting Research Programme, his research focused on the recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries using Deep Eutectic Solvent - a greener, less harmful alternative to conventional recycling methods. The work addresses a genuinely pressing problem: how to reduce battery waste, recover critical materials, and support the growing demand for sustainable energy storage without creating new environmental damage in the process.

It is research that matters particularly in India, where rapid growth in electric vehicles and renewable energy is creating an urgent need for sustainable battery supply chains. The solutions being developed in laboratories today will shape how that transition happens - and who benefits from it.

He is currently completing a Masters in Engineering at IIT Kharagpur, one of the most prestigious institutions in the country. Getting to that point takes ability, but it also takes something harder to teach. Confidence in your own thinking, clarity of purpose, and the belief that you have something real to contribute.

Pestalozzi works to build all of that, alongside academic achievement, from the earliest stages of a young person's education. We believe that who a young person becomes is shaped as much by their values and confidence as by their qualifications. Both matter. Both can be built.

The young people we support are capable of extraordinary things. Your support helps us reach more of them: https://www.pestalozzi.international

24/07/2026

Pascal grew up in the Meheba Refugee Settlement Camp in Zambia as a Congolese refugee. In his own words, most of his dreams felt impossible to achieve.

Then he was selected by Pestalozzi International.

After graduating, Pascal secured a full scholarship through the Mastercard Foundation to study at Kwame Nkrumah University in Ghana. While studying, he founded the Hope for Refugees Foundation - an NGO dedicated to empowering marginalised single refugee mothers and supporting students back in the Meheba camp where he grew up.

To date, the Foundation has provided empowerment capital to seven single refugee mothers, enabling them to run their own businesses and improve their livelihoods. Over 30 refugee students are now being mentored, receiving leadership support and free stationery to ease their education.

Pascal now serves as Alumni Liaison Officer at Pestalozzi International, helping to shape the lives of fellow students and alumni who need extra support.

At Pestalozzi, we talk about developing leaders for lasting change. Pascal shows what that actually looks like - someone who reached further than his circumstances suggested was possible, and immediately used that reach to pull others forward.

Pascal's story is one of many. If you'd like to support the next one, visit https://lnkd.in/diAf8-gc

Earlier this month, our Future Leaders Programme students in Zambia took part in CAS Camp - four days of creativity, act...
20/07/2026

Earlier this month, our Future Leaders Programme students in Zambia took part in CAS Camp - four days of creativity, activity and service that sit at the heart of how we develop young leaders.

CAS is built on the belief that the qualities which make a good leader are developed through experience, not instruction. Resilience, teamwork, creative problem-solving, the willingness to serve others and to think critically about the world around them - these aren't things you can absorb passively. They have to be practised, tested and earned.

Students worked through physical challenges, team activities and community service. We saw students push through difficulty, find solutions under pressure, look out for one another, and step into roles they perhaps hadn't seen themselves in before.

That shift - from student to leader - is what the Future Leaders Programme is built around. For many of the young people on our programme, four days like this offer something genuinely formative: a chance to be stretched beyond what feels comfortable, surrounded by peers doing the same, with adults alongside them who take their development seriously. It is in that environment that young people begin to see what they are genuinely capable of.

Every student carried the same motto into camp: Discover. Serve. Lead. Over four days, we watched them live up to it.

To find out more about our Future Leaders Programme, visit https://www.pestalozzi.international/programmes/future-leaders

"Let children learn, not earn."Around 1.1 million children in Nepal are still engaged in child labour - working in brick...
23/06/2026

"Let children learn, not earn."

Around 1.1 million children in Nepal are still engaged in child labour - working in brick kilns, carpet factories, fields, and restaurants. For families living in poverty, sending a child to work instead of school can feel like the only way to survive. The cost of that choice isn't always felt immediately. But it shapes everything that follows.

Our Grade 8 students in Nepal made this poster for the World Day Against Child Labour. They researched the issue, debated it among themselves, and chose every word on it. This is what they decided the world needed to hear.

What child labour steals isn't just time in a classroom. It's a child's chance to discover what they love, what they're good at, and what kind of person they want to become. At Pestalozzi, nurturing a genuine love of learning through how we teach, not just what we teach, is where everything starts.

In practice that means student-led discussions where teachers listen as much as they talk. Projects rooted in real issues affecting their own communities. The tools to research, question, and form their own views - and the trust to act on them.

These students already understand that child labour is a serious social problem, that poverty drives it, and that it damages children's health, education and futures. This is Pestalozzi in action: young people who don't just understand a problem but feel a responsibility towards it. We didn't give them that conviction. We just made space for it.

The next generation of leaders who will tackle Nepal's hardest challenges are already in classrooms. What they are taught, and how they are taught to think critically, independently and with purpose, will determine everything.

👉If you'd like to support that work, you can find out more at: https://lnkd.in/diAf8-gc

Today is World Refugee Day.Afonso arrived at Mayukwayukwa refugee camp in Zambia from Angola speaking neither English no...
20/06/2026

Today is World Refugee Day.

Afonso arrived at Mayukwayukwa refugee camp in Zambia from Angola speaking neither English nor any local language. His family struggled to make ends meet. Like so many of the 106,000 refugees and former refugees living in Zambia today, his future felt uncertain before it had really begun.

Selected by Pestalozzi International, he was given something he hadn't had before: stability, support, and an education that believed in him. He arrived overwhelmed. He graduated as Head Boy.

After graduating, he became a maths coach through Edulution, working with over 220 students in the camp and nearby schools - and was elected Youth Chair for all activities in his UNHCR camp. Alongside that, he went on to sponsor five children's education and co-found Zam-Ango Records, a music group built to keep at-risk young people connected, inspired, and off a harder path.

Afonso didn't just build a life for himself. He turned around and built one for others too.

At Pestalozzi International, finding that person is something we take seriously. We travel to the places other organisations often miss - refugee camps, remote villages - and we sit with families, visit homes, and talk with children about their lives and what they dream of doing. We're not only looking for top marks. We look for young people who are kind, curious, brave, and want to lift others up.

Afonso is proof of what becomes possible when a young person gets that chance. There are many more who never do - not for lack of drive or ability, but for lack of opportunity.

This World Refugee Day, your support goes directly towards giving a young person the education and platform to build a life - and a community - they can be proud of: https://lnkd.in/diAf8-gc

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency PestalozziWorld Zambia Pestalozzi Zambia Alumni

Before a child can lead, they need to feel like they matter. ❤️Yet millions of children in the Global South grow up in c...
16/06/2026

Before a child can lead, they need to feel like they matter. ❤️

Yet millions of children in the Global South grow up in communities where the education system was never built with them in mind - where potential goes unseen, and ambition has nowhere to go. At Pestalozzi International, belonging isn't a backdrop to education. It's the foundation of it.

Over 250 years ago, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi believed that learning begins in the heart - that before a child can think critically or act with purpose, they must first feel loved, safe, and valued. That conviction still lives at the core of everything we do.

Through Social, Emotional, and Ethical (SEE) learning, we nurture the whole person - building not just knowledge, but empathy, moral courage, and the confidence to lead. Because the leaders our world needs most aren't just the most qualified. They're the ones who remember where they came from, and choose to give back.

Every child we work with across Zambia, India, and Nepal carries that potential. Our role is simply to believe in it - loudly, wholeheartedly, and without exception. And the proof is there: 96% of our alumni stay in their home countries. Alumni are connected to more than 85 NGOs and community groups. 800,000 children now being taught by our alumni teachers.

Love, it turns out, is a pretty powerful development strategy.

The world needs leaders shaped by love, not just learning. Help us nurture them. Support a child's journey: https://lnkd.in/gGTURtri

Pestalozzi India

At SkillsHub, we are not only preparing participants to be work ready but to be financially savvy. Last month, they were...
08/06/2026

At SkillsHub, we are not only preparing participants to be work ready but to be financially savvy.

Last month, they were introduced to ‘Absa ReadytoWork’ which is a free training initiative by Absa Bank Zambia PLC in Zambia, designed to help young people transition smoothly from school into the workplace.

Many young adults in Zambia do not have bank accounts and have low financial literacy which act as barriers to finding jobs or staring their own business. The self-paced app introduces them to essential skills like personal budgeting and project management tools and even have access to a CV Builder, job search tools, and courses on digital skills.

These are further reinforced through our 6 month Mindset and Life Skills programme. At SkillsHub we are seeing the results of the incredible impact of a holistic approach, with over 50 % of graduates finding jobs in the first 10 months of the project.

When core competencies are integrated into vocational skills, participants can take these skills directly into the real world, ensuring greater confidence, ambition and future success with their chosen work pathways.

Learn more about SkillsHub and how we are supporting young people to build the skills, confidence and mindset to shape their future: https://www.pestalozzi.international/programmes/skillshub/

Calling all Pestalozzi International senior students and alumni.Join us for Entrepreneurship Unlocked: Alumni Startup St...
08/06/2026

Calling all Pestalozzi International senior students and alumni.

Join us for Entrepreneurship Unlocked: Alumni Startup Stories - a live webinar exploring what it really takes to build something from the ground up.

Hear directly from Pestalozzi alumni as they share their journeys into entrepreneurship and innovation, including lessons learned, challenges faced, and the realities behind turning ideas into action.

Featuring:
• Putty Muuka - Managing Director & Founder, Save and Remit Services
• Abhishek Mishra - Associate Vice President, Digital Health Transformation & Innovation, iKure Techsoft Pvt. Ltd.

📅 13 June 2026
🕚 11:00am – 12:00pm (UK time)
📍 Online via Zoom

Whether you’re exploring an idea, curious about entrepreneurship, or interested in hearing how alumni have navigated different paths after Pestalozzi, we’d love to see you there.

Check your email or visit the Alumni Hub for Zoom details.

What shapes a young person’s future more: ability, or what they believe is possible?Long before students make decisions ...
03/06/2026

What shapes a young person’s future more: ability, or what they believe is possible?

Long before students make decisions about careers, leadership or contribution, they begin forming assumptions about the world around them: what feels possible, what feels within reach, and what kind of future they can imagine themselves belonging to. Those assumptions often influence ambition long before ability does.

At Pestalozzi, we work with young people who have already demonstrated significant potential. But potential alone is rarely enough. Opportunity, exposure and environment all play an important role in determining whether that potential has the chance to grow.

Our Grade 10 students recently visited a local avocado farm for a vision board development activity led by one of our mentors. Students reflected, explored ideas and began giving shape to aspirations for the years ahead.

Creating space to imagine is not separate from education; it is part of it. Before young people can pursue opportunities, they must first be able to picture them.

Throughout the session, students reflected not only on where they hope to go, but also on the contribution they hope to make and the values they want to carry with them as they grow.

At Pestalozzi, we see this as part of leadership formation: creating experiences that expand perspective, strengthen independent thinking, and help young people recognise their capacity to shape the world around them.

Discover more about our Future Leaders programme: pestalozzi.international

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