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| Pestalozzi Children`s Foundation
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| Activities： |
Activist, Educational, Networking |
| Type： |
Foundation |
| Areas of Focus： |
Peace and Peace Building | Rights of the Child | Access To Education | Children's Health | Child and Youth Protection | Cultural Diversity | Social Justice Education | Youth Participation
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| About Pestalozzi Children`s Foundation： |
Children and adolescents are our present and our future. They are the focus of all our activities in Switzerland and in numerous countries throughout the world.
Children's Rights
Children and adolescents want to play, laugh and have fun. They also want to learn, to live and be loved. Whether the children are from an African village, from a Zurich suburb or orphans from Chernobyl, they all have the same basic needs.
Children and adolescents need legal rights and have a right to them. They are now enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It includes the right to free time; to play; to participate in cultural life; to an adequate standard of living; to the best possible health care; to the protection from abuse. And of course, children and adolescents throughout the world have a right to education.
Yet today these rights are still not a given and children are not in a position to enforce these rights themselves. This is where the Pestalozzi Children’s Foundation has an important role to play. Children and adolescents deserve special protection regardless of their race, culture or gender.
Disadvantaged children and adolescents are the focus of all our activities in Switzerland and in numerous countries throughout the world. The Pestalozzi Children’s Foundation can give them access to education and promote peaceful intercultural co-existence.
The Pestalozzi Children’s Foundation creates educational opportunities in places where many children and adolescents cannot go to school for a variety of reasons. The Foundation supports partner organisations by setting up alternative schools and vocational training centers. The Foundation makes it easier for children from remote areas to get to school. It helps working children to integrate in the school system. This support is given in the long-term. Educated children and adolescents improve the living conditions of their family and their community.
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